The End Is Nigh. Be Positive.
Futurist, social commentator, academic and general rabble rouser Dr Richard Eckersley (director of Australia 21, a non-profit, public-interest research company, and a visiting fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian...
Chemistry Fact or Fiction?
Earlier this year scientists discovered something remarkably close to the fictional speculation called Kryptonite – Superman's inert nemesis. This week, Russian scientists reported that they have discovered a few grams of a mineral that apparently absorbs radiation...
Democracy Is Dead. Long Live Democracy!
Okay, so posting this copied text below is against the rules, so if the author, Michael Pascoe, or the publisher, represented my beloved Crickey.com.au complain, I'll pull it down immediately. But, it's so damn good, so adroit, that I feel I can't quote one sentence...
From Blog to Broadsheet
Two of our writers here at Futuristics [ed: the blog these old posts came from] have had opinion pieces published recently in Victoria's Age newspaper. Josh Floyd today draws an adroit and principle based line to argue for a social morality foundation to developing...
Take a break from Enviro-Economic ‘doom and gloom’
The Age today carries a truly inspiring story of what many might now consider "getting it right" with balancing the economy, the environment and society generally. Or in a word, a viable sustainability. Vaxjo in Sweden started heading for fossil fuel independence in...
Meaning Making, Politics and Strategy
I was chatting with a potential client the other day...I like to use provocation to engage and test the quality of my clients... and on this occasion there was one topic where I got to really grab their attention. Asked about the importance of strategy documents, I...
The Secret and Magical Futures
In describing what I actually do as a futurist, and as ever, trying to fit into the 30 second elevator pitch at parties, I've often come back to a joking stance: "I'm a rigorous imagination technician. Not engineer, that you do for yourself. But technician, helping...
An All-In-One Cancer Cure?
Sometimes things sound too good to be true, but they're not. Here's hoping this recent report from NewScientist.com that an old, unpatented, known-to-be-safe-to-humans drug called dichloroacetate (DCA) really is the silver bullet for cancer. The key activity for those...
When Water Futures Don’t Trickle Down
There's something inherently frustrating about good futures work in a corporate environment. Early 2006 several Melbourne based futurists including Peter Hayward (Swinburne Masters of Strategic Foresight program director), Rowena Morrow (teacher in the course), Susan...
We all knew this was coming….
Mind reading computers… we all knew this kind of technology was coming along, but did anyone really think they'd get the correlations between brain waves/localised activity and intention/meaning so quickly? And, have they really? Will they ever? From a stub article in...
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