...spreading the word about the value of foresight today
My blog posts often emerge out of a convergence of events over a few days. This time it was getting annoyed – again – with our fascination with prediction, being asked the same day to speak to a newspaper journalist about why predictions don’t come true (gladly I said!), and then today attending my last [...]
The professional development day of the Association of Professional Futurists (APF) was held on Saturday, 7 July at the Vancouver Public Library, which makes an architectural statement in its own right. . The Day opened with a welcome from Mary-Jane Naquin and Jennifer Jarratt, followed by introductions – we each answered the question “we had [...]
I’m currently in Vancouver to attend the World Future Society Conference for the first time, and attend the professional development day of the Association of Professional Futurists (APF). I’ll be doing a set of posts from Vancouver here, and they will also be posted to APFLive. Last night, Foresight Canada and Ruben Nelso hosted a dinner [...]
For the last twitter chat (#futrchat) held by the Association of Professional Futurists, I wrote a blog post on the topic: what big questions do we need to ask about the future? The twitter chat was great, so I thought it might be interesting to record all the big questions and big issues that were [...]
The topic for the Association of Professional Futurists’ Twitter chat (#futrchat) this week (see below for details) is “what big questions do we need to ask about the future?” We all have questions about how the future might shape up for us. That’s the most fundamental and urgent driver for building our foresight capacity – [...]
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