If you’re not on twitter watching the #iranelection or just searching for “iran” which will catch it all, you’ve missed a worldwide conversation. A worldwide emotional reaction.  This morning, I feel connected to the people in Iran. I’m glad they have this tool, which was missing from Tiananmen square. It may or may not be …
From time to time, people ask me what it takes to be a futurist. Really, it’s an interest in thinking about the future and a habit of keeping my eye’s open. I think there is one other bit: the desire to make the world a better place in the future. I stay aware of what’s …
FiRE is a futurist conference that will be held in San Diego in a week and a half or so. FiRE is put together by Mark Anderson, who is one of the futurists I most enjoy following. He is an original thinker and I am always intrigued by his blogs and talks. I have never …
One: Twitter is actually a lot of fun. I suspect this is part of its popularity. Things to enjoy include putting a whole page worth of data into 140 characters (Haiku for modern times), hearing engaging snips about your friends’ days (and yes, what they had for breakfast is generally noise. But there are clever fun …
Kim Stanley Robinson got me thinking yet again when he posted this excellent article on post-capitalism. Post-capitalism, by the way, seems to be as well-defined as post-human. In other words, not. But we ought to start figuring out what happens next. Unregulated capitalism has problems. The most recent example is the current recession/depression/downturn. The images …
Yes, this is where the futurist speaker and the writer in me get all tingly…. I spent all day working on my next futurist presentation. After all, my last slide deck was made BEFORE the election and the recession and all that change. So I’m talking about three topics – demographics, medicine, and the environment. …
