[UPDATE: We have added 25 additional futurists to the list for a total of 203. Thank you for your help building out the list!] I find I am frequently asked where all the female futurists are. The discussion on why the profession of futurist appears to be so male-dominated has grown in recent years. I […]
James Lovelock, the creator of the Gaia hypothesis, that the Earth is a holistic self-maintaining system, died last week. As a coincidence I read his last book, Novacene, over the weekend before I had heard the news.
In all my extensive work in professional services, I have long focused on the powerful role of networks in success and value creation. The central role of networks in professional services is now being amplified even further. This is one of the points that came out in the fascinating conversation I had with Daniel Newman, […]
Jordi Muñoz became President of prominent early drone company 3D Robotics at age 22, having made himself a world-leading expert in drone design and manufacturing, teaching himself through the universe of resources available through the web and his own experiments. He says: “I come from a generation where we have Google PhDs, we can virtually […]
Machines becoming conscious, self-aware, and having feelings would be an extraordinary threshold. We would have created not just life, but conscious beings. There has already been massive debate about whether that will ever happen. While the discussion is largely about supra-human intelligence, that is not the same thing as consciousness. Now the massive leaps in […]
DYOR: Do Your Own Research This recommendation sounds reasonable. I do that. Yet those words mark deep divides in society. An article in New York Times today They Did Their Own ‘Research.’ Now What? examines the now-powerful phenomenon of DYOR.
I am delighted to share that my book Thriving on Overload is being published by McGraw-Hill, and is available for pre-order for its availability on September 6, 2022. It has been a long journey It has been far, far too long since my last book. After writing Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships, Living Networks, Implementing Enterprise […]
Two central themes in the next generation of human interaction with technology are smartglasses and brain interfaces. In that vein, the acquisition by Snap of NextMind (included in our list of top brain-computer interface companies) is fascinating. Major companies including Microsoft, Google, Lenovo, Magic Leap and others have high-end augmented reality glasses on the market, […]
One of the biggest, broadest shifts in place across human society is from centralized to decentralized organizations and structures. Yet there is massive uncertainty about how far it will go. It is possible we are moving towards a world defined by Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), participatory democracy, decentralized finance, and self sovereignty. It is also […]
I began work as a professional futurist in 1998, and it has been my full-time avocation (other than entrepreneurial endeavors) since 2006. For many years my reputation and credibility as a futurist has been significantly supported by my 2002 book Living Networks, which anticipated many developments of the last two decades, including pointing to the […]
