Posts under ‘Foresight’
The Big (Bad) Picture! How ready are we??
Today Jamais Cascio wrote a post about The Big Picture where he paints a picture of the 6 main drivers behind the major development of the next 20 years. I am really looking forward to following posts in the issue. Climate Chaos Resource Collapse Catalytic Innovation Ubiquitous Transparency New Models of Development The Rise of [...]
The famous Jamai Calisco (?) on Metaverse
Hmmm… A joke, a failure to spell it out right or just an urge to stay out of huge web traffic?!? David Sibbet, founder of Grove Consultants, shares his own notes of and a link to a video of a Jamais Cascio’s lectures on the Metaverse simultaneously at Stanford and Second Life November 27th. Since [...]
Gartner analyst connect Maslow and the metaverse
I have never been impressed by Gartner but I must admit they are changing. A couple of years ago I realized they started to use scenario planning as a tool for understanding and communicating the analysis. Then a couple of weeks ago I came across a decent discussion about Digital Natives. And now through Future [...]
Does foresight renders the future irrelevant?
For the last year or so most of my involvements in foresight activities in organizations seems to have different results than before. More often than not they are putting the focus back to fundamental issues about internal organizational issues. In some sense the results tell me: “Don’t fiddle around asking questions about the future! Focus [...]
Forecasting and Fermi problems
The other day a friend unexpectedly referred to Fermi problems (attributed to the famous physicist Enrico Fermi). I am the one who once (in ancient times) studied mathematics and physics and he is a marketing /advertising guy so I was a bit surprised. When realizing in what way he used the notion of Fermi problems [...]
Mind the gap
Since I promised to explain why I thought that hierarchies were broken and in a longer perspective being recreated in a new form, I will start to do it here. When I had a conversation about organizational consequences of new communications technology a friend of mine told a story about what happened in a large [...]
Peter Schwartz in and Saffo on Davos meeting
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 [...]
Thought provoking read
When living in a society which is so totally focused on progress and development it is sobering to note the other perspectives. A story in Guardian refers to David Edgerton’s “The Shock of the Old” and gives us something to think about. Guardian Unlimited | The age of technological revolution is 100 years dead: To [...]
