Into the heavy stuff
Today I attended a presentation by Dennis M. Bushnell, Chief Scientist from NASA, who was fascinating, but I was out of my depth. He is clearly a brilliant man who has an extremely good grasp of technology. Much of his thinking will feed into ‘7×7’ in August and the scenario work. After morning tea...
The Conference Begins…
Tonight the conference began properly with the Opening Plenary. The key speakers were Edie Weiner, co-author of FutureThink: How to Think Clearly in a Time of Change, and Bill Drayon, a founder of Ashoka and former assistant administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Washington D.C. I was particularly impressed by Edie who was, as one...
Our First Workshop
Over two days the team at Sustainable Future got together to explore the future. It was so fascinating, we ended up staying up to 2.00am thrashing out the key drivers for the next 50 years. After a slow start the next morning, we spent the remainder of the day developing four scenarios – some of which were...
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