Professional Futurist / Strategist
Forecast & Outlook: The global conversation about the future of transportation will soon shift from a narrow focus on incrementally improving ‘miles per gallon’- to a more substantive and fundamental rethinking of vehicle design and manufacturing based on an era of ‘drive by wire’ control systems, wheel-based electric motors and the integration of batteries, hydrogen fuel cells [...]
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Forecast: Leveraging and supporting India’s ‘demographic dividend’ will soon become the focus of many nations (beyond India) as a driver of economic growth and geopolitical stability in the next fifty years. Having spent nearly two years of my life living in South Asia (Nepal and India), I will admit a favorable (and optimistic) bias towards [...]
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Forecast & Outlook: Learning Systems certainly have what it takes to become a ‘next big thing’ in the world of business. (Sarcasm intended!) Yes, we are still years away from personal learning systems becoming functional and widespread. But, there are signs that conversations about a learning culture are shifting from classroom to boardroom. Company leaders [...]
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Forecast & Outlook: Our evolving knowledge base and capacity to design molecular manufacturing systems will be a primary driver of social and economic change in the decades ahead. Bioindustrialism and the Nanoscale design of carbon-based structures are two ‘game-changing’ ideas ripe for capital investment and commercial applications. Properly harnessed, carbon bonds are our best eco-friendly [...]
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Forecast & Outlook: The future of unconventional natural gas is the buzz topic within the world of energy forecasting. Natural gas is a clean, versatile fuel that could eventually expand beyond centralized utility power plants into markets for smaller scale Distributed Power systems, as a cleaner transportation fuel in the ‘Electric-H2 Age’, and if all [...]
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Hans Rosling takes us on another data-driven journey looking at past, present and future with a special focus on the social and economic re-emergence of India and China in the 21st Century. Direct link to TED Talks Video Recorded at India’s first TED Conference
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Warren Buffett seems to be be tapping his inner Futurist and raising the bar for applying strategic foresight in the world of finance and business. The decision by Berkshire Hathaway‘s CEO to buy Fort Worth Texas-based Burlington Northern Santa Fe demonstrates his understanding of deep structural changes in the world economy and the strong defensive position (and flexibility) [...]
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How much change might we expect in the balance of global economic power over the next ten years? How might financial markets evolve alongside the dramatic geopolitical market transition occurring between the dominant Western consumer economies of the 20th Century and the rapidly rising Asian consumer economies of the next century? Over the past year, [...]
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