Millennium Project Committee Meeting – Day 2
Today I presented to the committee on the activities of the Australia and New Zealand node, which included discussing the following three points: Supporting the Annual Global MP Delphi In 2020, developing an ANZ Delphi (now creating a database of 100 remarkable people in the region) Promoting and lobbying for Parliamentary Committees for the Future....
Millennium Project Committee Meeting – Day 1
Hi. I am now in Chicago. The World Futures Conference starts this Friday. Prior to the Conference proper, representatives from each of the nodes of the Millennium Project meet in advance to share information and discuss the next steps. I was fortunate to be asked to represent the Australasian node, as both the two co-chairs,...
Book Review: A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving
Eugene Bardach “The analytical work in problem-solving generally proceeds in a certain direction, from defining the problem at the beginning all the way to making a decision and explaining it at the end. But remember, this is a process much given to reconsidering, reviewing, changing one’s mind – in other words, retracing one’s steps on...
Book Review: Wool to Weta: Transforming New Zealand’s Culture & Economy
Paul Callaghan Auckland University Press, Paperback, $30 “We should discard the myth that because we are good at farming, our best high-technology future lies necessarily in biotechnology. Our best high-technology future will lie where our skills, our talents and our enterprise are apparent.” (p. 20) In his engaging new book, Wool to Weta, Paul Callaghan...
Book Review: Outliers: The story of success
Malcolm Gladwell Allen Lane, Paperback, $40 In his latest book, Malcolm Gladwell questions ‘Why do some people achieve so much more than others? And what is the secret of their success?’ He explores these questions by weaving a wide range of research and observations into simple stories and anecdotes. The three ideas that really have...
Book Review: Time Management from the Inside Out
Julie Morgenstern Hachette Australia, Paperback, $35 We have a very long To-Do list for 2020 at Sustainable Future, so we felt that it was apt to review a book we have been using to help us clear our desks for the New Year. Julie Morgenstern is a professional organiser, and her book is a clear,...
Book Review: The Endless City
The Urban Age Project by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank’s Alfred Herrhausen Society Phaidon, Hardback, $100 We end 2020 with a favourite of ours at Sustainable Future. The Endless City is a tome of a book, and is one you could easily spend hours browsing through over the holidays. The startling cover...
Book Review: Hot, Flat, and Crowded
By Thomas L. Friedman Allen Lane, Hardback, $54.99 “In the green revolution we’re having, everyone’s a winner, nobody has to give up anything, and the adjective that most often modifies “green revolution” is “easy”. That’s not a revolution. That’s a party. We’re actually having a green party…But in America, at least, it is mostly a...
Shaping Tomorrow
A friend of mine emailed me a link to this site, and I thought you might find it interesting. Shaping Tomorrow helps people and organisations better anticipate and respond to upcoming change, by setting out to help review critical uncertainties, challenges and trends. Our recent Think Piece 6, While AgResearch Fiddled, looks at critical uncertainties...
Book Review: The World Without Us
By Alan Weisman Virgin Books, $29.99 In this tour of a world without humankind, Weisman investigates the idea that Earth could be better off without us. Though Weisman acknowledges that the complete extinction of the human species is an unlikely event, the threats of ballooning populations, run-away climate change, pandemics or nuclear holocausts make this...
Book Review: Futurecast: How Superpowers, Populations, and Globalization Will Change the Way You Live and Work
By Robert J. Shapiro St. Martin’s Press, $44.95 Former U.S Undersecretary of Commerce, Robert J. Shapiro, outlines the three forces he believes will most significantly shape our future as being globalisation, aging populations and America’s position as an unrivalled superpower. Taking these forces, Shapiro looks forward to 2020, and sets out areas of risk and...
Book Review: 2020 State of the Future
By Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon and Elizabeth Florescu 2020 State of the Future explores possible and desirable futures based on the current state of the world. This is the twelfth report in the series and builds on all previous research and analysis asking the question, is the future getting better or worse? The...
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