Tag: future
Goalposts: Property Investment over the Next Billion Seconds
GOALPOSTS: Property Investment over the Next Billion Seconds INTRODUCTION The seeds of the future are already in the present. William Gibson put this more poetically when he said, “The future is already here – it’s just not evenly…
Read More »Touring 2050 (audio / slides)
Keynote for the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration – basically all the leading justices in Australia & NZ. And the slides: Touring 2050
Read More »“Managing Multiplicity” (live audio)
Recorded 9 May 2018 at OzWater 2018, Brisbane Convention Centre.
Read More »Managing Multiplicity
MANAGING MULTIPLICITY I’ve been asked to speak with you about what’s going on in the world – but let me start with what’s going on underwater.Every municipal water system has hundreds of kilometers of drains and channels and…
Read More »How to Think like a Futurist
HOW TO THINK LIKE A FUTURIST Good evening — and welcome to the pub. It’s fitting that we’re here tonight, because it’s in a pub that we’ll begin our story. But before that, let’s start with some basics….
Read More »Digital Marketing into Digital Community
DIGITAL MARKETING INTO DIGITAL COMMUNITY: PREPARING PEET’S FUTURES PART ONE: GO ASK ALEXA “Alexa where should I live?”That question, shouted at a little internet-connected microphone, seems more than a bit ridiculous. Why would anyone ever ask a device…
Read More »Now, Next, Never-never
NOW, NEXT, NEVER-NEVER NOW: EVERYBODY KNOWS Fourteen and a half years ago, I landed at Sydney Airport with a few suitcases and a lot of hope. Even before I got to my accommodation, the friend who picked me…
Read More »Intention Attention: Relationships, Voices and Tokens
INTENTION ATTENTION: RELATIONSHIPS, VOICES AND TOKENS PART ONE: MOTHER ALEXA When you were very small – before you could even crawl – you could only bawl and any time you had a need. Hungry, cold, tired –…
Read More »Becoming Transhuman
The complete 72-minute long magnum opus of Mindstates 2001: Its three segments represent the three fundamental actions, according to Georges Gurdjieff: Part One: Affirming Part Two: Denying Part Three: Resolving
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