Browsing the archives for the prediction tag
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 [...]
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 [...]
The topic of using analytics to predict future events has been generating a lot of buzz lately. Much of the current excitement was caused by Google’s announcement that it was buying start-up Recorded Future, whose Temporal Analytics Engine will make it possible for you to “visualize the future.” It seems that Google not only will [...]
