"My own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." The above quotation is from J.B.S. Haldane, a 20th Century British geneticist, and I have always enjoyed it because it elegantly captures the idea that even our imaginations are limited in their ability to "suppose." [...]
If you’ve got a great idea for a future venture, here’s some humble advice: Don’t listen to people who claim to have seen everything. First, I seriously doubt they have “seen everything.” And, if they really have seen everything, there is one thing they can’t have seen—and that’s what has not yet been created! (Remember: [...]
The future is in your creative hands. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” -- Alan Kay This is a wonderful quotation and, as a futurist, I often use it. What is often overlooked in the statement is this tiny tidbit: Because everyone can create, everyone—and I mean everyone--has a [...]
Rule the Future Rule #1: Ignore all the rules.
Tomorrow, I’ll be traveling to work with a large multinational corporation. In addition to delivering a keynote speech on future trends and “unlearning”, I’ll also be facilitating a session in which I’ll help them consider how they might begin conducting “business as unusual.” As a part of the process, I’ll ask a lot of questions. [...]
In my years working as a futurist, I’ve come to discover many people fear the future because they don’t—or can’t—see a role for themselves in it. They can only see how their job or industry might disappear. This is myopic. The future has never been one-size-fits-all and it never will be. Want proof? Consider the [...]
A Mediocre Message for Future Success Like millions of other parents across America, I spent this morning watching my son’s soccer game. On the sideline, not far from me, was the parent of an opposing player wearing a t-shirt that read “Fear Failure”. As a competitive person, I understand the sentiment behind the slogan [...]
With all due respect to Fleetwood Mac, many people “can’t stop thinking about tomorrow” because they never begin in the first place. Bill Gates’ solution to this problem is to dedicate one week a year to thinking about the future. He calls this week, quite unoriginally I might add, “Think Week.” Now, I can almost [...]
It has been said that you could study a grain of sand for a million years and never anticipate how a single grain might trigger an avalanche. With this metaphor in mind, I’d like you to contemplate a single sensor. By itself, it doesn’t amount to much. What happens, however, when 50 billion sensors are [...]
The paradox of the future is this: The future is being created now. Innovative researchers, scientists and entrepreneurs are working today to create a radically different future. What if in five years you can: --Recharge an all electric vehicle in less than 30 seconds; --Sequence your genome in less than a minute for a single [...]
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