How to think about THE future — or where is my crystal ball? The phone rings in my office one day.
X: Hello Maree, I need to know about the future of (topic/issue/trend) please. Maree: Hello, why do you need to know that? X: I have to manage our strategy process and my boss told me about futurism. He wants to use it. Maree: (Thinking ‘futurism?’ X: Well, he asked me to get some predictions about the future of (topic/issue/trend) so that we can focus our resources on those predictions. Maree: I’m afraid I don’t do predictions. X: Why not? Maree: What happens when the prediction is wrong? X: Well, it’s a prediction, how can it be wrong? Maree: Because predictions need facts and data to be right.
X: But people make predictions all the time. Maree: I have to ask again — what happens if the prediction is wrong? X: Good point. Maree: (Thinking wow that’s sad.) X: What? Maree: (Sighing silently.) Maree: I can’t help you with predictions. X: We don’t have time for that. Maree: I don’t do predictions. X: (Getting angry.) X: You have to be kidding. Green Sense Farm. About Green Sense Farms is the country’s largest commercial indoor vertical farm.
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Animations. Google exec predicts the end of the internet. Asked about the evolution of the internet at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Google guru Eric Schmidt gave a simple answer, “I will answer very simply that the internet will disappear,” Schmidt said on Thursday.
“There will be so many IP addresses, … so many devices, sensors, things that you are wearing, things that you are interacting with that you won’t even sense it, it will be part of your presence all the time,”he explained. “Imagine you walk into a room, and the room is dynamic. And with your permission and all of that, you are interacting with the things going on in the room.” “A highly personalized, highly interactive and very, very interesting world emerges,” Schmidt concluded.
At the panel, dubbed “The Future of the Digital Economy”, he was speaking with Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Will we be able to “feel” things on the internet? — World Economic Forum (@wef) January 22, 2015. Biggest Wake Up Call – Visual Commentary. This section is intended as an introduction to part one of my new work The Biggest Wake Up Call in History which will soon be available as an eBook and in hard copy.
It contains an image gallery, related resources and a number of relevant links. I will add to, and modify, it over time. Pervasive impacts of plastic in the world’s oceans There can be few places that demonstrate the widespread impacts and flow-on effects of humanity’s careless uses of its world than the oceans. Here, far away from human settlements, other creatures are paying a heavy price for the expansion of the human population, the continued pursuit of economic growth and the resulting worldwide tide of waste. Image credits: Shearwater chick © Ian Hutton, Albatross chick, © Chris Jordan.
Truth-telling from the street While perhaps not to everyone’s taste, this piece of radical street commentary from Melbourne, Australia, is one of the most strikingly truthful I’ve yet come across. Advertising poisons space *White, M.