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Does The Past Still Exist?
In The Langoliers by Stephen King, a plane flies through a strange wave of light and ends up landing at a deserted airport. Suddenly, strange creatures start consuming everything, including the ground.…
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You Need To Experiment Like Crazy To Innovate
Your innovation laboratories’ existential question: which concept has the potential to be worth a billion dollars? After implementing an innovation program, the most significant challenge that I’ve seen businesses face, in my…
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You Can’t Innovate Without Thinking About The Future
There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy facilitating our customers’ foresight initiatives. It is easier to help your inventors disconnect their current day-to-day jobs from the future which they are…
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How To Use Humans And Machines To Perfect Curation
There are still some tasks that can only be accomplished by people. I remember going to Yahoo! back in 1995, just before everything exploded here in Silicon Valley. I was there with…
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The Internet Is All Wrong
What is the true motivation behind the creation of the internet? Wasn’t it intended to link every human in the world to every other human on the planet, and maybe even lead…
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Are You Willing To Take The Risk To Innovate?
One of the steps that follow “facing the future” and “feeling empowered to change yourself or your organization to build your ideal future” in the Foresight Leadership curriculum that I teach is…
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There’s Never Been A Better Time For Innovative Startups
We certainly live in a fantastic time, don’t we? Even as recently as five years ago, we did not have nearly as many tools, frameworks, and platforms available to us as we…
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Can We Survive Without Our Devices?
We are getting close to the point, and in some cases have already arrived, at which we are unable to function normally without the assistance of augmentation. When was the last time…
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Let’s Make Discovery Great Again!
Do you ever get tired of the internet in its current, hyperpersonalized state? Do you ever long for the good old days of the web where you could stumble upon something cool…
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Exploiting The Tail For Fun and Profit
If there is one thing I’m unhappy about, it’s how big tech and big media exploit the tail for their own ends. But it’s a great business model for aspiring startups. If…
