news from the future
Applied Futurism in 2019
New brand, new website, new book, new courses: this is what you can expect from me and applied futurism in 2019
Future batteries: new ways to store energy
Future batteries might store more and charge faster, or they might be built into the structure of our houses or vehicles.
Halfway between a stranger and a friend
Greater community engagement and peer support can't replace our over-stretched services and crumbling infrastructure. But they can mitigate their effects.
Raging against the invisible machine
The Luddites smashed machines they could see that were taking their jobs. How will the new Luddites rage against invisible, ephemeral machines?
Sensory Overload: Why we struggle with too many communications channels
We have far too many channels of communication today to be productive. Something has to change to give us back control of our conversations.
Is tomorrow's society diverse or fractured?
We can rejoice in the diversity of modern society while also being concerned about the loss of a shared set of civic values and institutions
- Future Car 3
- Future Communication 17
- Future Health 10
- Future Media 10
- Future Technology 16
- Future of Business 10
- Future of Cities 9
- Future of Education 7
- Future of Energy 8
- Future of Finance 19
- Future of Food 6
- Future of Housing 3
- Future of Humanity 22
- Future of Retail 9
- Future of Sport 1
- Future of Transport 8
- Future of Work 10
- Future society 11
- Futurism 20
- clippings 1
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.
You can search all of my posts through the search box, or click through some of the relevant categories. Purists can search my more complete archive here.