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When does the future start? 21 Aug 2013 | 02:16 pm
I went to a great event last night in London and met a science-fiction writer called Lavie Tidhar, who asked the question “When does the future start?” His answer was: “When things start to get weird....
Weak signals 2 20 Aug 2013 | 01:20 pm
And when you see a weak signal they suddenly appear everywhere….
Weak signals 19 Aug 2013 | 04:56 pm
There’s some disagreement about what the term ‘weak signal’ represents in terms of emerging trends or scenario thinking, but I like to think of them as hidden or ambiguous signals of change. In my ...
Videos and articles on Scenario Planning 7 Aug 2013 | 01:19 pm
As regular readers will know, my book on scenario planning (co-written with Oliver Freeman) is now out. At some point I’ll create some short films about both the book and the wider c...
Don’t just do something, sit there 29 Jul 2013 | 01:08 pm
While I’m on the subject of digital detox (previous post), a few of you might have school age kids on holiday at the moment. Chances are you are frantic trying to organise things for the little darlin...
Switching off 26 Jul 2013 | 03:48 pm
Seems that the world has finally caught up with the idea that we are becoming too connected and that a little disconnection from time to time would be a good thing. Then aga...
The Future of Holidays 19 Jul 2013 | 12:22 am
I’m working on a project exploring holidays five, ten and fifteen years hence. Two questions for anyone that’s interested (perhaps you are on holiday and have noth...
Digital security 12 Jul 2013 | 10:25 pm
Seems that the Kremlin has starting using typewriters and paper again to avoid damaging leaks of digitally produced information (Huffington Post). Reminds me of prediction number 6 in my book, Future ...
Technology Foresight 11 Jul 2013 | 08:39 pm
Some crowd-sourced timelines coming out of the Imperial College technology foresight event last week. First (red) is for cloud-based energy storage, second (yellow) is on designing materials on demand...
Foresight books 8 Jul 2013 | 01:11 pm
Nice to have Future Vision (published last week in the UK) as book of the month for June at Foresight books. Here’s what they had to say: “These Worldview Scenarios are written in informal style, ...
