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Serendipity is the New Black
This morning I found a link to Kevin Kelly’s travel blog in my gmail inbox. The old founding executive editor of Wired magazine is now on the road, and yesterday – from Leh in India – he posted some...
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Games for Change
In November last year I went to Internetdagarna – a conference on all things Internet in Stockholm. In one of the panel debates, someone said that there are no problems to solve any more for app...
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Four Creative Ways to Get a Great Edge Community Space (which is way beyond...
I’m looking for a space to lease. A space suitable to turn into a place where ideas are turned into action. A place for makers and changemakers who work to co-create the future they want together. A...
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The Mystery Train – A new model for thinking about the future
Some futurists, including me, are obsessed by process. Joseph Voros’ Generic Foresight Process, IDEO’s Design Thinking Process, Otto Scharmer’s Theory U, Graham Wallas’ Creative Process and Joseph...
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Wise Innovation And The End of Institutions
The End of Institutions? Technology is a tool which can be used for good and for bad. How do we know which it will be? How do we know what the consequences will be when we build a gadget, an app...
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Some of my issues…
This image came up on Facebook yesterday, with the heading: We can now only watch as West Antarctica’s ice sheets collapse, and a link to an article written by a researcher at ANU College of Physical...
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The Dynamic Integral Governance App Store
Obsolete Model: Democracy New Model: The Dynamic Integral Governance App Store *** In my home country Australia we have decided to destroy the Great Barrier Reef. Over the past year we’ve seen a lot of...
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The Future of Work: From Coworking to Noworking
Obsolete Model: Hard Work New Model: No Work *** Obsolete Model: Hard Work I used to write and send CVs and job applications. But I never got the jobs I applied for, and most of the time I didn’t...
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Nine Metaphors for a Futurist
Initially this post was to be called ‘Dress Code for Futurists’. After spending five years with futurists from over the world, I wanted to find out whether there was a particular way to dress for...
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Cars
Obsolete Model: The Car New Model: The Human *** Obsolete Model: The Car “The spirit of generosity already threatened by the horse, evaporated entirely with the motor car.” - Bruce Chatwin in his...
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Five reasons for rapid blogging
Phew! This May experiment is over. One month ago I posted some thoughts on cleanin out my ideas closet.The purpose with this challenge to myself was to get rid of my huge to-blog-list over one month,...
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Gloss
“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern...
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Test yourself: Male happiness – Suffering Sultans of Swing…
BACKGROUND Inspired by Daniel Levinson’s “The Seasons of a Man’s Life”, I am working on a framework for male development with a complementing psychometric test I call “Suffering Sultans of Swing”. The...
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Four Scenarios for Humanity Based on Rolling Stones Guitarist Keith Richards’...
Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones is known as a rock’n’roll survivor. Unlike mythologized stars like Janis, Jimi, Jim, Kurt and Amy, who all died young, Keith is still with us. And not only that:...
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Where To From Here? Why Strategy in 2014 is so difficult.
The image here was used for a recent Meetup for Stockholm Futurists. It’s a graphic representation of futurist Jim Dator’s four alternative futures archetypes; continuation (a.k.a. growth,...
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Intrapreneurs Build Better Typewriters
I recently wrote about the current slow death of the institution. It’s increasingly obvious that the efficiencies we humans have gained in using institutions (to create scale, while minimizing...
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Injecting the Future
The image here illustrates a model for change we discussed over the weekend in the local Western Australian Future of Learning and Education event for the 3rd Global Education Hackathon. On the x-axis...
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The in-between era
This image is from a recent Harvard Business Review article. It nicely illustrates the polarization of values in “new” and “old” paradigm organisations: The right hand column in the image is what we...
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Six ingredients for better schools
Recently I came across two things which I felt are very important in our work to make education better. Whether we work within the existing education systems or outside it, I think it’s worth...
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This weeks discovery: Work is nowhere to be found in Maslow’s hierarchy!
I’m revisiting Maslow’s hierarchy. And I realise this: Work is nowhere to be found in Maslow’s hierarchy! And I also realise what an incredible challenge this is for us in the Western developed world....
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