Anticipate, change, adapt. Strategic Foresight Services. We help you think about the future in ways that are useful to you today
Wellington, New Zealand
Joined October 2009
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One cannot read colonial history and not be struck by how countries that spent much of the past 500 years engaged in mass enslavement, human trafficking, forced dispossession, ethnic cleansing and genocide are somehow still cast as the bearers of "civilization".
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Neat review of @taituara's Navigating Critical 21st Century Transitions report from Debra Bradley of Writing for Councils writingforcouncils.co.nz/a-r…
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Dear Spatial & Urban Planners, Demographers & Geographers, Sociologists & Anthropologists and others: is there an extant formal term for the growth of regional towns and cities when that growth is not at the expense of an emptying rural hinterland or the depopulation of cities
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This is the most accessible and useful piece I have come across about Covid19 so far. Detailed but really accessible for everyday readers – at Wellington City, New Zealand
The origin of this story is one of my colleagues asked for an immunity explainer, and I said, "GOD NO, have you any idea how complicated immunology is, that would kill me," but then I realized that I am already dead inside, and wrote the piece.
theatlantic.com/health/archi…
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‘Our current calendar interfaces lean too heavily on dead-tree methods of representing time. What if a calendar could represent subjective time (i.e. how long a meeting feels, its tempo/energy, its emotional valence, etc.) Some events fly by because they feel productive and fun.. – at Wellington City, New Zealand
Digital calendars are not designed to help us respect people’s time. They're empty by default, which means people are always ‘putting’ time on your calendar, never ‘taking it off.’
It’s all backwards! I dug into this problem and designed a few solutions
aaronzlewis.com/blog/2019/02…
So great to have been a part of these events
It was a pleasure and a privilege to deliver two sessions for the Global Futures Literacy Network - Oceania at the @FFTFNZ 2020 with fellow futurists @anita_kelleher Amy Fletcher and Remi Mitchell, under the auspices of @RielM’s UNESCO Futures Literacy initiatives. 1/
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When radical disruption occurs, the efforts to shore up the status quo are deeply revealing. – at Wellington City, New Zealand
You can’t make this shit up.
In Michigan people are clogging the streets with their cars in protest of the stay-at-home order.
They’re calling it #OperationGridlock
If it’s safe to re-open why are they protesting from their cars??
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Shows the potential value of undertaking Foresight exercises. (NB value only fully realised if you plan responses and then monitor how we’re tracking towards or away from different scenarios) – at Wellington City, New Zealand
yikes! amazing how quickly scenarios can shift from "quite unlikely" to "quite possible".
h/t @dylanjmcconnell
. @stratedgy was delighted to contribute to @AklCouncil’s Elected Member Kura Kāwana Symposium this morning.Fantastic to see such positive engagement with the future!
It was a great privilege, and my absolute pleasure to give the keynote for @AklCouncil’s Kura Kāwana Symposium for Elected Members this morning. Great to have the opportunity to talk about governing and decision-making in the context of era-scale change.
Stage One of our new website is up now. See our ongoing and new client services and our keynotes, talks and games.
stratedgy.co.nz/
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Literally all I do as a futurist:
Not improbable
Not impossible
No, real futurists don't predict
Not implausible
Not improbable
Entirely possible, but I'm not predicting it
Not improbable
Preposterous (but preposterous futures are commonplace atm)
No, I'm not going to predict!
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Everything routine will be automated - and what constitutes ‘routine’ is getting broader! #FutureOfWork #Automation #Robotics
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Wellington folk: Rangatahi, did your kuia, koro or grandparent march with you today? Older people Did you march today with your grandkids/mokopuna? Would you be willing to interviewed for small future-focused video project? DM me or email me: [email protected] Please RT – at Wellington City, New Zealand
Fly or drive? How quickly will behavior change if one choice gives you less stress, more convenience, more flexibility and lower carbon? impactlab.net/2019/07/09/dri…
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Dark tourism is a legacy. BBC News - Chernobyl nuclear site to become 'official tourist attraction'
bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-…
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A really useful read for anyone involved in combating the twin destructions of planetary equilibrium and ecosystem equilibrium (scientists, futurists, activists). We need to harness our collective grief for action. #future #hope – at Wellington City, New Zealand
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Interesting world where we’re deepening the nature of our relationship with robots, accelerated through design that encourages anthropomorphic projection whilst our relationship with particular groups of people are being dehumanised by cynical orchestrated campaigns of ‘othering’ – at Wellington City, New Zealand
the possibility of an AI apocalypse - one that arises when our AI-ssistants and enabled environment suddenly become dumb.
theverge.com/2019/6/19/18682…