Confessions of an Engineer
…in a complex, non-linear world
New Thinking
Harari’s Stumble on the Future
Even brilliant authors tend to underestimate the complexity of the future.
Burnout – How Exploring Futures Can Help
A counterintuitive approach to workplace stress and weariness – aka burnout
Five Future Paths for Bitcoin and Digital Currencies
Watch for hazards and detours…
When this is behind us, how will we think about privacy?
And it may not matter.
Life after Covid — some Millennial perspectives
The new largest generation shares its hopes and concerns.
Intelligent Technology and the Coming Liability Crisis
Intelligent technologies are so woven into our lives that we no longer see them. They are not us. Yet we permit them to decide for us…
23 and Me, You, Everything
Biology is not destiny, but the field of genomics is chock full of powerful implications — for science, medicine, commerce, society and just about anything we can think of.
A Hypothesis about Working-Class Rage
Why are ordinary people revolting? Maybe…prediction?
Designing the Office of Strategic Need
Organizations are managed by people who acquired expertise from experience in an existing operating environment. But operating environments change unrelentingly. How does one get out ahead of this change?