news from the future
Predicting the future is all about time
Predicting what is going to happen is easy. The hard part is predicting when it is going to happen. This is the challenge of futurism.
Let's play Fear of the Future BINGO!
We all fear the future. But it's inbumbent on us to confront those fears with rationality and intelligence, nor fear and ignorance.
AI, data, and the future of decision making
Even giants fall
We have a sense that today's digital giants are unbeatable, but they are no more secure in their positions than the behemoths of old.
Betamax was not better than VHS
VHS didn't win because of porn. VHS didn't win because of marketing. VHS won by matching features and price to the consumer's needs. And that's technical superiority.
Building the Bionic Banker
When it comes to our banking interactions, there is good friction and there is bad friction. Eliminate the good friction and you risk customer loyalty.
- Future Car 3
- Future Communication 17
- Future Health 10
- Future Media 10
- Future Technology 16
- Future of Business 10
- Future of Cities 8
- 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.
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