Futurist Peter Schwartz distills the lessons learned from his work in scenario planning for organizations. Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash The following transcript of Peter Schwartz’s Long Now talk on scenario planning has been edited for length and clarity. The Role of Mental Maps This is a map of North America. It was made by a Dutch […]
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Dear Behice, yes i hear you. What you describe is real. I felt it while in being in Istanbul last year. And i felt it when visiting Brazil, the Philippines, among others. And i feel it here in the US. Which is precisely why the events next week matter so much. But when you look
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just talked about it in my response to Pablo direct above your comment. china first blew it and then it learned. so its a middle case. if china would have been as proactive as Taiwan was, the virus would have never spread outside of china. but that did not happen. more interesting than china are
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hi pablo. i hear you. like you, i also do not like (and am concerned) about Big Data, Big Pharma, Big Techno etc. But unlike you i do not think there is a 'they' there. and its also not a black and white. for example, in the covid situation, just look around and look at
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We are a species defined by our tools. Our cognition extends beyond our fingers, branching into the technology we hold and the institutions we build. But everything we wield changes us in turn. If we want to make sense of where we find ourselves in this moment in history, we can begin by exploring the
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The Darkest Hour Is Just Before the Dawn. How to Transform Trumpism After Trump: On Post-Truth, Post-Democracy, and Post-Humanity. The US election next week feels like a planetary watershed moment, with implications well beyond the United States. This moment has an exterior and an interior dimension. The exterior dimension is a referendum on the occupant
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Recently, I published a series of short meditations on philia, one of the classical of greek forms of love/friendship, a term which means… Continue reading on Medium »
That is it. That is why. That is warm data.
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An interview with Vincent Ialenti, author of Deep Time Reckoning Inside Finland’s Olkiluoto nuclear waste repository, 1,500 feet underground. Photo Credit: Peter Guenzel With half-lives ranging from 30 to 24,000, or even 16 million years, the radioactive elements in nuclear waste defy our typical operating time frames. The questions around nuclear waste storage — how to keep it
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In the forest, boots crunching, tree tops sweeping in wind. Silence is not silent. The season is revealed in the wet soil and yellowed… Continue reading on Medium »
