In times of geopolitical instability, rapid technological change, and overlapping crises, it’s increasingly hard to make confident claims about what regions or countries will look like five or ten years from now. And yet, confident predictions persist. You still hear...
Anticipate and Adapt: Spotting Future Challenges for Your Business Explore the importance of anticipating risks and challenges to future-proof your business. Learn how futures workshops, scenario planning, and strategic foresight can help identify potential risks and...
Wes Kao makes a blunt but helpful point: students don’t owe us their attention. The same is true for participants and futures facilitation. Participants don’t owe us belief, engagement, or imagination just because we’re holding the marker or running the workshop. If...
The Rise of AI Slop: Four Futures for Our Informational Ecosystem AI slop—the flood of low-quality, AI-generated content—is reshaping the way we interact with information. What does the future hold in a world awash with digital noise? Here are four possible futures,...
We often approach the future by looking forward: imagining scenarios, mapping trends, projecting change. But sometimes, a future becomes more accessible when we approach it from the other direction. I’ve been thinking about the idea of an annual review, not as a list...
