A foresight framework and algorithm: Future is…
Posted in: Foresight, Humanity, Innovation Tags: algorithm, consumer trend, Foresight, framework, Future, Humanity, humanness, improvement, perspective, prediction, trend
How to think about the future? A foresight expert uses many tools to help understand what the future holds. Predicting the exact future is not the point for a foresighteer, except that people want to hear predictions – trend this and that – those are easy to deliver and easy to consume but often very [...]
Hunome
Hunome is an Internet venture I now focus on. More about Hunome We all make decisions every day where our understanding of how humanity works is put to the test. Some of those decisions or perspectives about 'how humanity works' are personal and close to everyday life and how we relate to others. Other [...]
Transhumanism – Where does it stand? Where will it go?
You can find my point-of-view on transhumanism. It is part of a series of articles on the topic on KedgeForward. Here is the full text for convenience: “My view is that humanity is already moving towards a transhuman, beyond biology, species. We have taken little steps. This will be a gradual shift in what [...]
Hunome launched in private Alpha 1.1.2010
Hunome has launched in Alpha. I cannot believe it. I have not said anything about the launch on my blog. I guess that is because I’ve communicated it elsewhere. What is Hunome? It provides means for creating and enjoying short-cuts to insights about humanity. Who is it for? Those who need to understand what makes [...]
What makes humans unique?
Posted in: Humanity Tags: human, human condition, Humanity, nina rosenstand, species, unique
If we do not understand ourselves how can we hope to truly be in someone else’s shoes and have perspective? If we do not have perspective, how can we operate in a world of variation, even if ever so slight and seemingly insignificant? We like to display our uniqueness in many ways in amongst our [...]
Sustained or suspended?
Posted in: Entrepreneur Tags: Entrepreneur, Humanity, leadership, organisation, sustainability
Some time ago I gave a talk in the US, as the event had to do with sustainability and leadership, I spoke about a continuum from the ‘disaster waiting to happen’ or being ‘suspended’ to having a good chance of sustaining an organisation’s existence for a long time. I have looked inside large and small [...]
Climate change – humanity is paralysed
Posted in: Humanity Tags: climate change, context, Continuity, Humanity, livability system, retrograde, unintended consequence
Sunspots, man made, sunspots, man made, believe it is ‘true’, believe it is not ‘true’, etc, gosh and this level of discussion helps us how? For years humanity has been flummoxed by its own lack of ability to – once and for all – figure out what is happening with climate change. It is heating [...]
Emotional and rational future maze
Posted in: Foresight Tags: acceptance, anxiety, certainty, confidence, emotion, epicurus, Foresight, Future, hope, human, Humanity, strategic foresight, uncertainty
We must remember that the future is neither wholly ours nor wholly not ours, so that neither must we count upon it as quite certain to come, nor despair of it as quite certain not to come. Epicurus, 341-270 b.C., Greek philosopher, Letter to Menouceus, The Essential Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, and Fragments [...]
What a piece of work is a man….in search of truth – again
I have been studying philosophy in the era of Shakespeare. As part of that I watched Kenneth Branagh’s excellent full-length version of Hamlet, set in 1800s, later than the original setting of the play, which was Elizabethan England. In this video clip is a soliloquy from act II scene 2. The same soliloquy in a [...]
Purpose and value – a company perspective
Posted in: Foresight, Humanity Tags: benchmarking, categorisation, competition, ecosystem, engagement, Foresight, hints, human, Humanity, hunome, ideas, Innovation, insights, knowledge, meaning, purpose, relevance, strategy, vision
If you spent some time visiting several Fortune 500 web sites, how many of those do you think would clearly state their purpose and value to humanity? How many would have people in their brand somewhere? How many would talk about the passion they have for making the world a better place and how their [...]
Sleep, daily rhythms and gaining time
We behave in a particular way and then we say “I am like this….”, when in fact we’ve just created habits, which may be good ones or bad ones, but not impossible to change, if wished. Confession: “I am an evening person”, is nothing but a habit I’ve created for myself, believing my own gospel [...]
A major milestone – Hunome Alpha preview
Posted in: Entrepreneur, Humanity Tags: Entrepreneur, human, Humanity, hunome, milestone, team
Us hunomers had a small gathering yesterday to put a stake in the ground and celebrate a major milestone – we have seen Hunome early phase and it is turning into a beauty Over the last year and a half, plus much noodling around the vision even before then, the team has grown to 10+ [...]
Consensual self-deception: An essential trouble with humanity
Last Friday at a dinner party chez Catherine and Hugues, Ron, a seasoned business man and a neighbour told us a story, which had its underpinnings in these six points from the book: LEADERSHIP AND SELF-DECEPTION from “THE ARBINGER INSTITUTE” 1) An act contrary to a feeling of what I should do for another person [...]
Once I got caught…..@ TED2009
Posted in: Innovation, Personal Tags: Belonging, Connecting, Creativity, Humanity, Prosapience, TED2009, TED@PalmSprings
This is my TED2009 story [TED = technology, entertainment and design]. It aims to give you a sense of what it feels like to be there. Some of this may seem like an insider’s story and I apologise for that. For 3.5 days we watched, heard, tasted [those who got the bread in Long Beach [...]
Foresight Identities – a journey of transformation
Posted in: Foresight, Humanity, Life Tags: eric hoffer, Foresight, foresight identities, Future, howard thurman, human, Humanity, identity, ideology, intuition, jonah lehrer, learned, martin luther king, opinion, Prosapience, research, science, sisu, timing, william gibson
Just like we are different people to different people Foresight Identities are different approaches for different needs… I gave a talk on Foresight Identities and my journey through them at the ‘Futures Hot House’ at AMP building in Sydney last week, thank you Janine and thank you audience for the wonderful questions. The NINE different [...]
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