Entries tagged with: Rants
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About Foresight (a minor rant)
Why worry about tomorrow? After all, according to one of our most respected thinkers, "always in motion is the future." It's a reasonable question. Consistently accurate predictions about interconnected complex systems are functionally impossible, at least at any real level...
Full Comments to Nature
Nature's Nicola Jones asked me to comment on Singularity University for an article she was putting together; that article is now available. She included a couple of brief observations of mine, but I thought it would be useful to show...
This Changes Everything
You have my permission to slap the next futurist (foresight thinker, scenario strategist, or trend-spotter) who uses the expression "this changes everything" seriously. Slap them hard. Maybe a shin-kick, too, if you're into it. The notion that some new development...
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