Innovation. It plays a huge role in how we build the future. It has driven change literally throughout all of human history. Yet, certain periods and regions, such as the Florentine Renaissance, seem to have been more productive in this regard than others. More recently, we’ve looked to California’s Silicon […]
Acquiring new knowledge and challenging assumptions is an ongoing part of the futures process. However, it can be easy to fall into habits and routines over time, making it necessary to occasionally disrupt our expectations and worldview. That’s part of my motivation for traveling around Asia this year, beginning with […]
Few things open your eyes like travel, and boy, have my eyes been opened lately! It was a privilege to be interviewed for Busan Worldwide on BeFM while traveling in South Korea recently. It was such a pleasure to speak with host Stephanie Yoon about artificial intelligence, the Busan Expo […]
Earlier this month, I had the honor of being the opening keynote for The Hawaiian Business Leadership Conference in beautiful Honolulu. The organizers were incredible and the attendees so engaged. We spoke about resilience, diversity and building futures that are desirable for all. A fantastic experience!
I recently had the pleasure and honor of being the opening keynote for a very tech-savvy conference. XTM Live, The Translation Technology Summit really made me appreciate the enormously important work this relatively young industry performs. In today’s modern business world, it’s increasingly important to have a true global presence […]
Two years ago, in March 2020, my book Future Minds was published. An exploration of the nature of intelligence in the universe and how this might evolve for us in the future, its release coincided with another far more challenging development, the onset of our most recent pandemic. While the […]
The world around us is continually changing, especially when it comes to our livelihoods. Automation, global competition, changing business models, artificial intelligence, the fourth Industrial Revolution, robotics, big data — it’s all driving increasingly rapid transformations in the kinds of work we do and the ways that we do it. […]
As a futurist, I’m continually researching emerging technologies and trends, speaking and corresponding with the scientists, labs and businesses who are helping to build our future. Recently, I thought it might be fun to share some of what I learn via different channels. You can check out some of these […]
Back in 2018 & 2019, when I was writing Future Minds, I coined a phrase I’d never run across before: Neureality. (I’m not saying no one had ever thought of it, just that I’d never heard of or read it.) My idea at the time was that our technologies were […]
After defeating the all-time human champions of the game show, Jeopardy in 2011, IBM’s Watson supercomputer was scheduled for an upgrade. Wanting to give it access to a broader vocabulary, its programmers introduced the AI to the Urban Dictionary, a web-based collection of cultural phrases and slang. Unfortunately, because of […]