This Never Happened
Future scenarios require a past, because there's no data about the future.
Society and Culture
A Most Ironic Scenario
Some perspective from 93 years ago on Greece threatening not to pay back its monstrous debt to German and other banks.
Future Anti-Vaccinators
Opposition to proven preventive measures is not a left-right issue – and metaphorically, it also affects a lot of businesses.
In the past few days, a mighty attempt has been made by various Media Creatures to shoehorn a controversy over a measles outbreak and non-vaccination of children into yet another left-right bipolar fight.
How We Might Not Have Gotten to Now
Steven Johnson’s How We Got to Now – and why we might not get to Then.
A Purely Cognitive Argument Against “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques”
Why torture almost certainly can't work in the real world.
ISIS, Hitler, Orwell
A war with no “good” side.
US Consumer Scenarios: How Are We Doing?
The economy in 2014 is certainly on a much stronger footing than it was a few years ago, but is this as good as it will get for the U.S. consumer?
JFK + 50: Alternative Scenarios
A few thoughts on this anniversary:
If JFK had lived . . .
Mideast Scenarios, or “Damn, We’re Good”
Where will the Arab Spring and Syria take the Middle East? Well, we kind of called it in 2011.
How Doctors – and We – Think
Scenarios are like second, third, fourth and fifth opinions.