The second in our series of seven key drivers influencing the move to After Capitalism is technology …
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Top Ten Drivers of the Future 2023
We all love lists. I posted a drivers list a year-ish ago. I thought it would be fun to revisit and see if anything …
Top Ten Drivers of the Future?
I recently had the opportunity to brief a group on the key drivers shaping World Futures. I have taught a class by that …
Technology and After Capitalism
NOTE: Longer-than-typical post as I try to briefly summarize the impact of accelerating technology change on After …
Next up: A new species!
Homo Deus makes the provocative argument that technological progress has Homo Sapiens on the path to becoming a new …
After Capitalism Visions Taking Shape
Small steps forward. It’s helpful in research to step back everyone once in and while and assess or re-assess where you …
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Abundance: Tech to the Rescue
The title says it all: Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think. If you’re a true believer in technology …
Reframing After Capitalism
I introduced a new framing of the “After Capitalism” project a few weeks ago in a post on “transition.” Let’s look more …
Balanced View of Emerging AI & Automation
One the one hand, “we are at an inflection point—the early stages of a shift as profound as that brought on by the …
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Wiring or Choice?
I’ve got a few books to review for the blog for “After Capitalism” that come at what’s next from different perspectives. …
Whiplash: A Tale of [One of] Two Worlds
As a consumer of future visions, one is typically offered one of two main dishes: the super-fast, blurry, world of …
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Next Economy Additions: Commons, Creative Molecular, and Em/Singularity
A couple of years, I started collecting and posting concepts or names for the next economy as part of my scanning (which …
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Artificial Intelligence: It Depends
Futurists pretty regularly get asked about artificial intelligence, often along with robots, and perhaps some …
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Media, the Singularity, and Futurists
I did a brief commentary on a recent article feature “futurist and Google exec Ray Kurzweil’s” latest comments around …
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[The idea of] the Singularity is Here
Timing and the future has been coming up a lot in my recent work. [My favorite piece is "seeing in multiple horizons"] …
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A few thoughts on Infinite Progress
A colleague referred me to Byron Reese, the author of Infinite Progress: How the Internet and Technology Will End …
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Archetypal Myth and transformational change #3: The essence of human nature
This is the third entry in a mini series (first “Earth was made for man” and second was “Work is essential to human …
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Speculative fiction and the future
An interesting post on “speculative fiction” and the future suggests 15 novels that were best at forecasting the future, …
Singularity getting nearer
The Singularity Is Near book was one milestone. The formation of Singularity University was another. Not sure this is a …
Forecasting and Wild Cards with Exchange Students
I recently had the opportunity to spend a morning talking about the future of science and technology with some exchange …
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