Shaping Tomorrow has published my latest trend alert, Engaging Employee Emotions. This blog post is not a reprint of that trend alert. Please read it first, and if you have time, I hope you can read the blog post too. Casual Friday is an everyday experience for many successful companies and a dead fad for … Continue reading Engaging Employee Emotions–Author Commentary
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My latest trend alert took me a little longer than I expected. I had to figure out what I could say that a ton of other people had not already said a dozen times. The idea of gaming breaking out into all areas of life is an old idea, but I think there is something … Continue reading Games without frontiers
Last year, two quantum cryptographic systems were shown to be vulnerable to hacks which neither system registered. For years, quantum cryptographers have promised completely secure systems. However a year ago, a group led by Hoi-Kwong Lo at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada showed a vulnerability in quantum systems. It was a complete hack, … Continue reading Quantum Hackers
Horizon scanning and environmental scanning are two terms which are seemingly interchangeable. Even futurist organizations are often unsure how to use them. As a scanner, I feel there is a difference. Scanning the environment means looking only for what is happening now and immediate consequences, but scanning the horizon is looking more broadly at the … Continue reading Environmental & Horizon Scanning
One of the first trend alerts I wrote back in January 2010 can be found here. The link requires an account, but the account is free. I continue to follow these developments and the topic has become one of my specialties. Essentially I look at the growing health concerns over nanotechnologies* and apply William Ogburn's … Continue reading Cultural lag of nanotechnologies
