news from the future
#AskAFuturist: What have you been most wrong about in the past?
James Saye asked, "What have you been most wrong about in the past?" Answer? Lots, but always for the same reason: I got 'what' right but 'when' wrong.
Five trends for the 2020s
What are the trends for the 2020s that will define sustainable success for your career and your company? Futurist Tom Cheesewright picks his top five.
When driving faster, look further ahead
The faster you’re travelling, the further ahead you look. Behind the wheel of a car, we do this automatically.But we don’t seem to do it in business.
Futurism is strategy and storytelling
Strategy is a long term plan built in the face of uncertainty. The tools of applied futurism inform that strategy and clear some of the uncertainty.
The art of the probable, the possible, and the desirable
As a futurist I frequently have to explain to people that I'm talking about what I see happening, not what I would like to see happen
The Victorian Arrogance Trap
It is too easy to be impressed with our level of mastery of the world. We have a long, long way to go and we should remain humble.
- Future Communication 17
- Future Health 8
- Future Media 10
- Future Technology 10
- Future of Business 10
- Future of Cities 8
- Future of Education 6
- Future of Energy 8
- Future of Finance 18
- Future of Food 4
- Future of Housing 3
- Future of Humanity 22
- Future of Retail 9
- Future of Sport 1
- Future of Transport 8
- Future of Work 8
- Future society 11
- Futurism 20
Archive Note
The archive of posts on this site has been somewhat condensed and edited, not always deliberately. This blog started all the way back in 2006 when working full time as a futurist was still a distant dream, and at one point numbered nearly 700 posts. There have been attempts to reduce replication, trim out some weaker posts, and tell more complete stories, but also some losses through multiple site moves - It has been hosted on Blogger, Wordpress, Medium, and now SquareSpace. The result is that dates and metadata on all the posts may not be accurate and many may be missing their original images.
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