Dear Readers: I know I said I was retiring from my work as a corporate futurist but, as one friend wrote to me after my announcement, "Once a futurist, always a futurist.” I write to you not to walk back my “retirement,” but to share a few “post-scripts on the future” as well as explain [...]
Dear Readers, Last week, I promised I’d share a link to my talk “The Future of Faith in an Era of Accelerating Change." The gist of the 40-minute presentation is simple: A perfect storm of technological, political, economic, and environmental change is coming. Trust is breaking down, long established political and financial institutions are on [...]
Editor’s Note: For the remainder of the summer, I am taking a sabbatical to work on a new book I am writing in collaboration with Arctic explorer, Will Steger. The working title is “Exploring Our Unknown Future: A Blueprint for Creators.” For the next few months, the newsletter will take on an abbreviated form as [...]
My responsibility as a futurist is not to tell people and organizations what they want to hear but, rather, tell them what they need to hear. In this spirit, I feel compelled to share some important thoughts with you. As such, today’s newsletter will fall outside the scope of its normal format. As a [...]
I recently finished reading Abraham Heschel's book, "I Asked for Wonder." (I highly recommend it.) Near the end of the book, he wrote: "The future of all men depends upon realizing that the sense of holiness is as vital as health." Finding, sustaining and growing in this "holiness" has not been easy for me. In [...]
Think Seriously: Ex Google CEO Eric Schmidt says "We need to seriously think about unplugging AI." I want to be clear that Schmidt is not suggesting we shut down AI right now. Rather, he is making the case that society must put in place stringent safeguards that will allow society to shut down AI if [...]
This November 5th I will not be casting my ballot for myself. Instead, I intend to vote on behalf of future generations and my choice is Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. This is not because I agree with all of their positions. Nor am I under any illusion they will solve all that ails [...]
Think: Scientists around the world are getting increasingly nervous about bird flu. This is a very SERIOUS issue and it is possible we could soon see a pandemic on the scale of the one the world witnessed in 2020-21. Are you and your organization prepared? Think Faster: As a futurist, one of my responsibilities [...]
Dear Readers: Happy Labor Day Weekend! This week, I am trying something new. I am only going to include a single article for you to read and contemplate. I hope you do it because it is an important article: "The Most Important Question of Your Life". Rather than ruin the article for you by offering [...]
Think: This article, How to Fine-tune AI for prosperity, offers an interesting look into the issue of how artificial intelligence will impact productivity growth in the near future. The short answer is that economists don't yet know the full extent but they are cautiously optimistic that AI will soon begin to speed up the development [...]
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