Is your business nettified?
Posted in: Foresight, Innovation Tags: Connecting, entreprise future, Future, internet, mobile, nettification, networked business
One industry (ICTI) has swelled up a strong wind for all other industries. The Internet, a breeze in the early 90s, is hungry for more. Life is in the nettification‘s embrace with technologies like: online/offline (Adobe – Air), mobile (like Android and other open promises), location brilliant (many emerging businesses and applied businesses), multi-sensory, searchable/findable, [...]
Pop!Tech – Camden Maine – Oct07
Posted in: Foresight, Humanity, Innovation Tags: al desko, artists association, brain, chris jordan, christian nold, citizen journalism, consensual hallucination, jonathan harris, kiva, language, linguistics, martin luther king, microfinance, mobile, participatory sensory mapping, pop!tech, Prosapience, skin anthropology, vanessa german
When you need to get rid of cobwebs in your brain I recommend a few things A long dinner with friends with a conversation repertoire A long walk in the Sydney bush – in particular the ones with vast views to the water A long canoe journey along the Sydney foreshore(s) A week skiing with [...]
Future and Sci-Fi
What is the role of the science fiction writer in our future? ….my view is that science fiction writers imagine the future – which the scientists and business people then go and make happen – sometimes it takes a long time – but I don’t think that they ‘predict the future’ as someone said in [...]
AusForesight2007
Posted in: Foresight Tags: ausforesight2007, autonomous, behaviour, change, collaboration, evan thompson, Foresight, francisco varela, Future, futurist, habit, human, integral, jan lee martin, ken wilber, meaning making, naomi klein, pattern recognition, peter bishop, peter hayward, richard slaughter, serafino de simone, sohail inayatullah, taboo
Three days in the lives of futurists – together AusForesight2007 is now part of history and memories. We came together in a national event with one tireless international guest Peter Bishop to reflect, react and respond. We reflected on the meaning of futures in our lives and in the world. We reacted to what we [...]
Teleportation
Posted in: Foresight Tags: augmentation, Belonging, brain, Connecting, kurzweil, serendipity, singularity, teleportation
The molecule road or the parallel universe road My friends and loved ones are all over the world. I have a number of day dreams about how to be closer to those people more often. One of those dreams is to have a place in France where we will host a month of open doors [...]
How many futurists?
There are about 100 foresight professionals or futurists in Oz [lose definition or lets say not formed definition of criteria but people who associate themselves with being that]. Oz is about 2% of Global GDP. Australia has a vibrant community and long history with some wonderful godfathers [Richard Slaughter, Sohail Inayahtullah] and one gorgeous mother [...]
Are you a faroid?
Posted in: Foresight Tags: corporate futurist, emergent field, faroid, foresight professional, futurist, labelling, liquid worker, strategic foresight, worquid
Futurist, foresight professional or faroid? I spoke before about being a modern shift worker. It is not necessarily in shifts of 7.x hrs but rather in bits and pieces across the 24hr clock. What do we call that? Things change in the way in which we live, often due to technologies. The fundamentals remain but [...]
Innovation variants – Nokia and Computer Sciences Corporation
Posted in: Foresight, Innovation Tags: business model, consumer foresight, context, create waves, decision speed, differentiate, era, ethos, Foresight, foxtrot positioning, Future, industry, innofuture, Innovation, innovation avalanche, living, maturity, position, product creation, ride waves, segmentation, shaping, speaker, tailored
Do you create waves or ride waves or both? Which one is relevant to your innovation program and why? Speaking at the InnoFuture2007 in Melbourne, Australia, as a panel member on different takes to innovation from some key industries, I represented the ICTI [Information Communication Telecommunication and Internet industry]. This is roughly what I spoke [...]
The pendulum swing
Posted in: Foresight, Humanity, Innovation Tags: behaviour, change, Continuity, Future, human, Prosapience
We are a very excitable lot, us humans. When we come up with something new we get all gung ho about its potential and impact. Once we’ve established that it is not going to happen quite so fast then we no longer notice the changes happening around us. Is that because we became rather blaze [...]
Technology – a disruption or a compromise
Posted in: Foresight Tags: behaviour, competition, compromise, Connecting, design, desire, human, technology
Technology layering – obscuring the goals It is uncanny how we seem to be surprised by human behaviors and needs as it relates to technology. Much of technology is a compromise. It is a step on a path to something. What? As we explain to ourselves and our buyers of the need for this device [...]
Seeing shapes of what might be
Exploring …an excerpt…. McLUHAN: “Sometimes I wonder. I’m making explorations. I don’t know where they’re going to take me. My work is designed for the pragmatic purpose of trying to understand our technological environment and its psychic and social consequences. But my books constitute the process rather than the completed product of discovery; my purpose [...]
Packaging frustrations
Posted in: Foresight, Innovation Tags: Continuity, Life, packaging, ramble, rant, travel
Symptoms of what problem? Just in the last few years I have encountered numerous problems with packaging and I do wonder why it is so hard to think it through and make it easy. 1/ Toothpaste is packaged mostly [one major well known brand in Oz anyway] in carton tubes, which hide the look of [...]
Competing in a Connected World
Posted in: Entrepreneur, Foresight, Innovation, Life Tags: change, competition, Connecting, Continuity, organization, pathways, ride waves, timely technology
Do or die An enterprise can consider a few alternative pathways as to how they respond to the technology induced changes. The enterprise can decide to create waves by defining their own way to leverage the technologies. Another possibility is to ride the waves others have created. Or the enterprise can crash some waves. The [...]
Fascinating changes in science – spiritual potential
Posted in: Foresight, Life Tags: biology of belief, bruce lipton, epigenetics, life of beauty, mahatma gandhi, Prosapience, spirituality
I visited Vancouver over the weekend of 19-21st of April. It was an Association of Professional Futurists conference, or rather a cozy get together among people who know each other more or less and who welcome a chance to mingle with colleagues. During this weekend, among many other fun and informative things, we did a [...]
Prosapience
Word for future human related foresight Over many years I have struggled with the words human, user, people, consumer as the category of foresight I am passionate about. I have used consumer foresight as I have practised within organisations, who eventually would like to see someone buying what they produce. It troubles me though. The [...]
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