Browsing the blog archives for September, 2010

End of THE Future

  In the introduction to his latest book, It’s your Future…Make it a Good One, my friend and fellow futurist, Verne Wheelwright offers one of the most succinct explanations of the difference between prediction and foresight. It’s so good that I thought it would be useful to share here.  In the 1950s and 1960s, think [...]

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Where Did Tomorrow go?

Oh, how we used to love the future. We dreamed of flying cars, back yard nuclear reactors and even colonies in space.  It was all going to be just so wonderful, we could hardly wait for tomorrow to get here. So what happened? Why did we fall out of love with the opportunities that were [...]

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