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- Nassim Taleb on signal, noise, and the toxicity of data
- "Our future is now being planned by people who seem to put their emotional comfort ahead of making decisions based on real… information"
- Language and attitudes to the future
- Decline of commentary
- Future selves and financial decisions
- Another unintended consequences data point
- Short article on ACE
- Forecasting extreme events, expertise, and forecasting accuracy
- Brain science and debt ceilings
- Unpacking the Future
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About Future 2.0
- 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.
About Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
I write about people, technology, and the worlds they make.
I'm a senior consultant at Strategic Business Insights, a Menlo Park, CA consulting and research firm. I also have two academic appointments: I'm a visitor at the Peace Innovation Lab at Stanford University, and an Associate Fellow at Oxford University's Saïd Business School.
I 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.
My book on contemplative computing, The Distraction Addiction, will be published by Little, Brown and Company in 2013. (It will also appear in Dutch, Russian, Spanish, Chinese and Korean in 2013 and 2014.)
My episodically-maintained personal blog is Relevant History; a c.v. of uncertain vintage is available as a PDF. I also have profiles on Linked In, Google Scholar, Academia.edu, and Amazon.
Recent publications
IN PROGRESS
IN PRESS
PUBLISHED IN 2012
PUBLISHED IN 2011
A Banquet of Consequences: Living in the “Nobody-Could-Have-Predicted” Era.
Using Futures 2.0 to Manage Intractable Futures: The Case of Weight Loss
Thinking Big: Large Media, Creativity, and Collaboration [pdf]
Citizen Satellites (with Bob Twiggs)
PUBLISHED IN 2010
Feasting at the Banquet of Consequence
Futures 2.0: Rethinking the Discipline
Paper Spaces: Visualizing the Future
Social Scanning: Improving Futures Through Web 2.0
Global Scenarios: Their Current State and Future
PUBLISHED IN 2009
Future Knowledge Ecosystems: The Next 20 Years of Technology-Led Economic Development
Futures groups
Office of the Director of National Intelligence, US
The James Martin 21st Century School, Oxford University
Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University
Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Oxford University
Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University
Millennium Assessment of Human Behavior, Stanford University
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