Entries tagged with: Futures Thinking

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The End of the World As We Know It (and I'm rather annoyed)

Fast Company's Co.Exist just put up my latest piece for them: "The End Of The World Isn’t As Likely As Humans Fighting Back." It's the latest in my series of short essays under the working title "Stop Complaining About the...

Posted on May 28, 2013 12:39 PM

A Dragon, a Black Swan, and a Mule Walk into a Future...

My latest piece at Fast Company's Co.Exist site is now up. I gave it the title "A Futurist Bestiary", but they went with the more informative title of "3 Reasons Why Your Predictions Of The Future Will Go Wrong." (I've...

Posted on March 29, 2013 1:01 PM

Futures of Human Cultures

My friend Annalee Newitz, editor at io9.com, asked me a short while ago for some thoughts on the possible futures of human cultures. The piece (which also includes observations from folks like Denise Caruso, Maureen McHugh, and Natasha Vita-More) is...

Posted on March 20, 2013 10:09 AM

42 Minutes into the Future

Last December, at the Humanity+ event in San Francisco, I sat down with filmmaker Adam Ford for an extended interview on a wide variety of subjects, including the participatory panopticon, the possibilities around AI, geoengineering, even the role of art...

Posted on February 20, 2013 2:56 PM

Forensic Futurism

If there's a common trope about "futurism," it's that it gets everything wrong. From jetpacks to vacations on the Moon, any discussion of futurism in broader culture very quickly turns into a listing of the various crazy things that "futurists"...

Posted on February 16, 2012 3:39 PM

OtF Core: Ethical Futurism (from 2006)

(This is the original Ethical Futurism piece I wrote for Futurismic in 2006; I intend to update and build on it, but I wanted to make sure the original could be found in its entirety here.) What does it mean...

Posted on May 18, 2010 2:14 PM

My Talk at Lift10 : Wired for Tomorrow

Watch live streaming video from liftconference at livestream.com (My original title was "Wired for Anticipation," hence the video title.) Video quality is iffy, and the audio isn't sync'd well, so be warned....

Posted on May 14, 2010 1:51 PM

Futures Thinking: Mapping the Possibilities, and Writing Scenarios

(tap tap... this thing on? There's dust and cobwebs all over the place.) My most recent three Fast Company pieces are all of a set, part of the Futures Thinking series. Mapping the Possibilities (Part One, Part Two) give some...

Posted on February 24, 2010 1:22 PM

New Fast Company: Futures Thinking: Scanning the World

...And just now my latest Fast Company piece popped up on the site. "Futures Thinking: Scanning the World" is the third in the occasional series on thinking like a futurist. In my opinion, it may actually be the hardest step...

Posted on November 30, 2009 9:00 AM

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