news from the future
If you want the right skills, train people
We’ve stopped investing in people. And until we do, we have no right to complain about skills shortages. Especially while every employee is becoming more valuable.
Generation Beta: Meaningless grift or useful demographic identifier?
Generation Beta is here. What does it mean for you? And does it mean anything at all? Or is all this generation stuff just grift?
The AI Opportunities Action Plan
What does the UK government’s new AI Opportunities Action Plan actually mean?
Not unusually, I find myself having to answer this question in a bit more depth than I might otherwise have done, and at short notice.
The future of trust
The crisis of trust and the explosion of digital choice create together a perfect storm for cyber attacks through social engineering. The next few years will be challenging and we will need help to keep us safe.
My 2025 Predictions
Today I’m recording the first of my annual radio chats making predictions for 2025. So it’s time that I review last year’s predictions as well.
Planning for 2025? Talk to a futurist
A lot of you are probably starting to think about 2025 already. And there are lots of ways that I, as a futurist might be able to help, whether that’s in marketing, strategy, or speaking at events.
- Future Car 2
- 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 9
- 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.
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.