The Perils Of Technology Prediction If you gave an infinite number of futurists an infinite amount of time, would one of them eventually be correct about something?
Updated Tue Jun 28, 2011
Five Facts That Will Turn Your World Upside Down What's Next? Here are 5 facts that might just change everything.
Updated Mon Jun 27, 2011
Why Doing Nothing Is Often Better Than Doing Something Is our obsession with busyness making us less productive? Is constant connectivity not only making us stupid but making us sick too?
Updated Tue Apr 26, 2011
Why Good Ideas Go Bad Why do some smart people make stupid mistakes? Furthermore, why is it that some new ideas go absolutely nowhere, while others make it to the innovators hall of fame?
Updated Tue Jan 18, 2011
Timeline of Failed Predictions (Part 2) Here are a few things that people might live to regret saying in the future. All are offered in a spirit of festive fun but all also have a serious side.
Updated Mon Dec 13, 2010
Timeline of Failed Predictions (Part 1) Think you're good at predicting the future? History says that you're not. What have people said in the past about the future and why do so many predictions get things so hopelessly wrong?
Wed Dec 1, 2010
The Rise of Connectivity Addiction In this excerpt from his new book, "Future Files: How the Digital Age Is Changing Our Minds, Why This Matters and What We Can Do About It," author Richard Watson examines the modern phenomenon of being addicted to tech, from the Internet to the cell phone, and the effect it's having on our brains--and our culture.
Mon Nov 15, 2010
How to Have an Idea Why the best way to have an idea is to stop thinking.
Fri Nov 12, 2010
Innovation Timeline What will be invented between now and the year 2050?
Mon Nov 8, 2010
How to Profit From the Future Where will the money be made over the coming decades? Here are a few thoughts.
Wed Nov 3, 2010
Where Do You Do Your Best Thinking (Part 2) Forget six sigma, forget time management and forget the 4-hour work week. Forget facetime, analytics and knowledge process outsourcing too. When it comes to corporate creativity the future is pencils, eight hours proper sleep and a long lunch.
Tue Oct 19, 2010
Where Do You Do Your Best Thinking? Where do you go and what do you do if you want to have great ideas? The answer is perhaps not what you'd expect.
Mon Oct 18, 2010
Mind Map of the Digital Age A map of the new digital landscape (Best viewed by people aged 35+).
Tue Oct 5, 2010
Roadmap for the Future Ever needed a map to explore the future? Here's my shot at one.
Fri Jan 8, 2010
Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Innovation* But Were Afraid To Ask This is way too long for a blog, but what the heck...
“There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system”- Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Posted Wed Oct 7, 2009
Are Open Plan Offices Damaging Our Thinking? Research by Dr Vinesh Oommen, from the Queensland University of Technology, claims that the use of open plan offices is adversely affecting productivity. Moreover, open plan offices are linked to decreasing levels of privacy, increasing levels of job dissatisfaction and rising levels of workplace conflict. And if that’s not enough, open architecture and office floor plans can also lead to higher blood pressure and the spread of infectious diseases. In other words, the open plan office is just about the worst possible environment that you can work in.
Posted Wed Oct 7, 2009
Where Do You Think? Where and when do you do your best thinking? I put this question up on another blog recently and got an extraordinary response, so I thought I'd try it here too.
Posted Mon Feb 16, 2009
Scenarios for the Future of Brands Here's the last scenario. I will add a few more elements if people are interested. As I said at the start, this work is a collaboration between myself, Wayde Bull and Oliver Freeman.
Personal Fortress:
Posted Mon Jan 12, 2009
Scenarios for the Future of Brands Smart Planet:
This is a world where people are fully aware of climate concerns and other worries but have a belief in science, human ingenuity and the power of free markets to sort everything out. It is a world of radical re-engineering and inventiveness; biotechnology and nanotechnology, both driven by a free market. Clean tech is huge and brands are squeaky clean, both in terms of transparency but also in terms of carbon neutrality. Winning brands build platforms using science and technology.
Posted Mon Jan 12, 2009
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