Archive for the 'Futurist Posts' Category
Crowd Power: Crowdsourcing Today
My newest column at Futurismic explores the power of crowds. Before I started researching this, I knew about crowd-sourcing used to get people to a particular place to do something interesting like perform the Thriller dance in mass in public, or for demonstrations (Tahrir Square). I knew about crowd-sourced translation projects. I didn’t know [...]
Thailand: The Conference
At the moment I am feeling very international as I am using a portable computer in the “ICT Experience Center” in the Seoul airport. This is relevent because after being a speaker at the FutureGov Asia conference, I came away very impressed with the clear and committed focus of South Korea on internet infrastructure (including the [...]
An Excellent Presentation on the Future
I came across as excellent presentation about the future called Future Agenda. I think it showed up via one of the people I follow in Twitter. It’s gold for an SF writer…very visual, very easy to navigate, very clean, and it fits (in general) with my understanding of likely futures based on my futurist research. [...]
What Does the Future Need?
One of my favorite things to do each month is write my column for Futurismic (which has had a lot of great content lately, by the way). This month, I decided to talk about what the future needs from us. Another way to say that is “What should we be doing now to create a [...]
The Yin and Yang of Futuring
There are a lot of us being guardians at the gate. Environmentalists warn about species extinction and loss of the wonderful world we’re lucky enough to live on. Scientists and climatologists wring their hands about global warming. Governments worry about terrorism. We need the guardians at the gate, we even need to be the guardians. [...]
The Ordinary Futurist: 2011 Predictions
Every year I play a predictions game. It’s not really good futuring since the world is way too strange for prediction except by true experts in a field, and I’m a generalist. But I still like the game. So here goes: Publishing and Creativity: Preface to this section. I’m playing here, and frankly the book [...]
The Ordinary Futurist: A 2010 Review of my own predictions about climate change and related topics
On to the one area which is more important than technology or government…the environment. Here is my analysis of how I did at predictions related to Climate Change and related topics last year: Prediction: While we’ll probably continue to flail politically, green business will rise out of the recession and start to make it less [...]
The Ordinary Futurist: 2010 review of my own predictions in technology
Well, every year I play a game of “What will happen?” Now, I’m a semi-professional futurist, so you’d think I’d get this right. But my success rate varies party because futurists aren’t really prognosticators (Nostradamus was not a futurist) and partly because the world is more complex than any of us can follow. This year [...]
New at Futurismic: The Recession and the Steep Upward Slope
I’m an early adopter. But new technology is coming out so fast, I can’t adopt it all. I sat down to write a short pithy paragraph about that for this blog, and out came a whole essay — so it’s at Futurismic. The basic idea is that it feels like we’re going backwards in a [...]
On FiRE This Veterans Day
I’ll be spending my day off tomorrow at the Future in Review one-day conference called FiRE Global. I’ve been invited to participate in the CTO challenge, which is this case is a continued discussion about scaling energy, which may be no less than a talk about how to save the world. My belief (based on [...]
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