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October 5th, 2020

Think of COVID-19 as a Bike with Training Wheels for the 2020s

[Mu of his column just appeared in the Sarasota Herald- Tribune Clear image, right?  Either a memory from your childhood or from parenthood. The first lesson is to learn how to peddle, break, hand signal, turn and generally adapt to the concept of a bike.  My father was hard core.  He said no training wheels, […]

 

 

July 13th, 2020

The Collapse of Legacy Thinking

A clear way to look at all the disruption of the 2020s is that legacy thinking and the reality it has created, is collapsing. Legacy thinking is thought from the past. That thought created the realities of the past and present that are now collapsing in an accelerated fashion. What was, what reality was, what […]

 

 

May 12th, 2020

The Futurist Becomes the Canary in the Mine

[Note: this column was just published in Medium  a great place for thoughtful commentary.  Please follow me there as well as here.  Thank you!] In 2015–2016 I stood down from traveling around the world speaking about the future to publish a book on climate change and then to set up a global non-profit  to create […]

 

 

March 17th, 2020

Ruminations and Forecasts in the Time of Pandemic – 1

The magnitude and probable consequences of this gargantuan black swan event will be significant and numerous.  Realizations, insights, revelations, probabilities, and forecasts keep coming to me as this all sinks in. Here are just some of what may lie ahead both in the near term, and more significantly in the long term.  Each of these […]

 

 

September 5th, 2019

The Collapse of Legacy Thinking

[Apologies to regular readers of this column for my absence the past two months.  I have been completing the book trilogy mentioned in the last post, which is from the end of June.  I am now back].   Anyone who has read “Entering the Shift Age” [2012] or heard me speak since then knows that […]

 

 

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