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The field of futures and forecasting is undergoing a revolution. Since the field was founded in the 1950s, the problems futurists must make sense of have become much more complex. The tools we can use-- and could develop-- to follow trends and forecast possible futures have become more sophisticated. The audiences we try to reach have expanded. The media we use to communicate have changed. And our knowledge of how people and groups actually think about and respond to the future has evolved greatly. The purpose of this blog is to make sense of how the field is responding to these changes, and try see where the field is going-- in effect, to forecast the future of futures.

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang is a futurist of science and technology. He is Futurist in Residence at the Peace Innovation Lab at Stanford University, and an Associate Fellow at Oxford University's Saïd Business School. He began thinking seriously about contemplative computing in the winter of 2011 while a Visiting Researcher in the Socio-Digital Systems Group at Microsoft Research, Cambridge.
Alex is currently writing a book, Taming the Digital Monkey: From Perpetual Distraction to Contemplative Computing, to be published by Little, Brown and Company. More information is available on his personal blog, Relevant History, or on his c.v.