2020 has been a year of death and disruption. No question. This has led to a general societal meme that this is the worst year ever. It is hard to dispute that. In this time of pandemic, I could not think of a year that could come close, though 1968 is a solid second. […]
[A personal column, based on the tag line above: A Future Look at Today. Hopefully you can take the time to watch and listen to the songs] A futurist has to be an historian to have any clarity about the future. A futurist has to be in the moment because that is when the future […]
This is taken from the great W.B. Yeats poem but with different spelling: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned The full poem, one of the great pieces of poetry, is at the bottom of […]
The title of this column is the title of a Power Point slide I often use in my presentations to CEOs, businesses and general audiences. Though slightly tongue in cheek it is a true statement. The point of the slide is that in the Shift Age all aspects of life have so sped up that […]
