Yesterday in Davos Peter Schwartz witnessed about the result of a report concerning the effects on global climate: The rate of climate change is much faster than we all think There will be many extreme large weather events. It is more urgent and catastrophic than we previously thought. Read Stephen Voss report about it at [...]
Posts under ‘Driving forces’
The existential society and the belief in scientific facts
What is the point with some research if there is a widespread tendency among the general public to take private decisions about its truthiness?? I am not the first to comment on, or being inspired by rise of the word truthiness, and I will certainly not be the last. The word recently surfaced in a [...]
How sustainable is an open Internet in the future?
The other week I answered a friend who asked about the future of Internet, that I’m not as optimistic as I used to be. It is obviously so that when a technology starting to spread to the broad masses, the society effects are showing up. We usually recognize it when we publicly starts to blame [...]
Where are the horizontal thinkers going? To the quality departments!!
There have been an interesting low intensity conversation about horizontal or complex thinking. (See e g Zenpundit post 1 and post 2, Enterprise Resilience blog post, Mapping Strategy blog post, Eide Neurolearning blog post as well as deeper analysis by Thomas P.M. Barnett. I believe this touch on a terribly important issue for the future: [...]
Maslow turned upside down?
Sometimes I feel like we all live in an upside down world. When preparing a lecture I suddenly saw something that could illustrate this. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs have been important for how social scientists and others have been looking at our society. If things really are upside down, why not try to turn the [...]
Side effects of SOX or enforcing ethics by rules
The effects of scandals like Enron in the US and Skandia here in Sweden are that many companies and governments now excels in applying new and better regulations and control mechanisms to avoid similar crises in the future. This is currently a really strong driving force which can be symbolized with SOX which is the [...]
Cartoon protests mirrored in the digital domain
As expected muslim hackers are active and mirroring the protest in the digital world. Roberto Preatoni from www.zone-h.org reports about and lists hundreds of sites been attacked, and the attacks seems to be continuing. This is just a confirmation that the digital world is just another plattform for our social activities. I commented about this [...]
An oil price at $263 dollar?
In Davos, George Soros and Hermitage Capital’s Bill Browder is talking about great uncertainties which could make huge impact on the oil price in the not so distant future. Bill Browder’s scenarios worst case is $263/barrel. Read an the article about this in Fortune. There are a number of uncertainties mentioned in the article. Iran [...]
New names for “Cyberspace” – another suggestion
The Future Now blog points to an article in Wired (because the blogger himself wrote it) which presents a number of new suggestions that would replace the word “Cyberspace”. Institute For The Future have asked a number of smart people for their suggestions. To me this is a clear signal that the mythical place called [...]
The passed year – 2005
Happy new year to all! The future is of at least some interest to all of us, even if the majority is not as explicit about it as I am. But even I feel that it is valuable to reflect on what was once in a while. It is crucial to understand both the present [...]
