Ever since the 70s when the king of Bhutan suggested the idea of a Gross National Happiness metric to replace the Gross National Product, academics and politicians have explored the notion of softer research for measuring national progress. The UN developed their Human Development Programme which provided a much broader set of indices for nations … Continue reading Wellbeing as a policy objective
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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
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
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
I love it when journalists say something to the extent of, "it may sound like science fiction, but...." Well, it may sound like science fiction but next year is 2010. 2001 was eight years ago. No one expects to see a giant foetus hovering above the Earth, but we can certainly expect times to change … Continue reading Science fiction
