I was just listing to an old DJ mix I did with Bruce Sterling as part of my NerdHouse Podcast. It’s from his famous Reboot 11 closing speech back in 2010. The speech is full of crushing lines, but the following ones really made me smile. Here is what the future looks like for your [...]
I finished guest blogging at Dave Snowden’s Cognitive Edge site recently. Go have a look and see what you think. So far I’ve blogged about: Foveal and Peripheral Vision Threats: What Kind of Threats Do We Face in the 21st Century? Learning to See the Unseen New Movement, New Mastery: Perceptual Dexterity in the 21st [...]
I recently contributed to an interesting white paper on the future of resource scarcity and commodity prices at GBN. Check it out here; it’s called, “Winners and Losers in the New Commodity Price Regime” (PDF). Part of what I found so interesting about this exercise was that the project began as a heated debate over whether [...]
The following mini-scenarios were created using the SenseMaker Suite Scenarios approach developed for my PhD with Dave Snowden and Wendy Schultz. They were auto-aggregated using narrative fragments contributed by over 265 participants from around the world. In other words, participants submitted stories of the future, tagged them, and then the system clustered them based [...]
This week (April 18th) I attended the third Oxford Futures Forum at the Said Business School of Oxford University. Among other things, the Forum aimed to: Forge and support an international community of future-minded practices aimed at actionable knowledge. It was a remarkable gathering of futures practitioners, young and old, with a partial list of [...]
My friends at Made by Many have an office Strategy Dog. Her name is Tilly. She lives in a cardboard box with a sign on it that says, “Strategy Department”. She tweets at @strategydog and is rapidly gaining more followers than many of us could ever dream. Here she is, in her full, surreal glory… [...]
UPDATE (April, 2011): The full article (“Gifts of Sight“) is now online at Risk Professional magazine. It is behind a pay wall, but email me and I’ll send you a personal copy. I was recently asked to explain some of the concepts I use in my research to a journalist interested in new developments in [...]
I recently did a Q & A for the Fall 2010 issue of the GBN Bulletin (pdf here). Here is an extract from the PDF, in which I talk about crowdsourced scenarios, urban change, design & strategy. I’ve added links and re-inserted a few of references and shout-outs that didn’t make it into the final edit, [...]
Futurescaper is an online tool for making sense of the drivers, trends and forces that will shape the future. As a user interface system, it still needs development. As a tool for analyzing and understanding complex systems, it works very well and does something I have yet to see anything else be able to do. [...]
I’ve spent the better part of the last four years working on approaches to online scenario planning as part of my PhD. During this time I have designed and implemented three systems – each of which explored a different approach to crowd sourcing, engagement and online participation in futures work. I call these experiments in “large-scale participatory futures systems”.
