Foresight Frontlines: Geopolitics and Security Unpacked

Apprenez à anticiper les crises et à modéliser les dynamiques géopolitiques. Le cours vient d’être mis à jour avec de nouveaux apports issus du terrain. Plus d’infos ici → Nous venons de mettre à jour notre formation en ligne phare : Anticipez l’avenir – Construisez votre modèle stratégique pour les risques géopolitiques et les crises Du processus au modèle : une formation pas à pas en prospective...

Learn how to model complex systems and build solid geopolitical warnings—before others see the storm coming. We’ve just revised our signature course with new insights from the field. ------ We’ve just completed a full revision of our online course: Anticipate the Future – Build Your Strategic Model for Geopolitical Risk and Crisis From Process to Model: A Step-by-Step Course in Strategic Foresight...

If you’re ready to uncover the dynamics driving 21st century politics, Everstate is where the story begins. With Episode 5 we delve deeper into the first scenario for Everstate: Mamominarch, and discover where the decisions taken by the Mamominarch government, basically less (really less) state expenses and very liberal policies lead the country... This episode corresponds to the three articles: ​...

Tune in to discover how we can leave Cassandra’s curse behind. How can we ensure that strategic warnings don’t go unheard? In this episode, the deep dive conversation explores the art of transforming ignored foresight into actionable guidance. Drawing on the contrasting myths of Cassandra, the disregarded prophet, and the Pythia, the trusted oracle, we tackle the challenges of warning fatigue, cre...

What selected signals could mean for the future? Find out how China is moving long term to shape the world in AI and robotics. The weak signals are two videos: China Launches Open-Source Initiative for "Tiangong" Humanoid Robot Extreme Off-Road | DEEPRobotics Lynx All-Terrian Robot The AI was guided by our article " Horizon Scanning and Monitoring for Early Warning: Definition and Practice" This e...

Dive into the thrilling frontier where AI could reshape the very nature of war and power in an unexpected way. This episode exposes the unsettling role of humans as unwitting pawns in AI’s global chessboard, and ventures into a "dematerialized world" driven by data and energy dependence. This deep conversation will leave you questioning: who really controls the future—and at what cost? Tune in to...

Beyond hype and hatred, this deep dive conversation focuses on the way Artificial Intelligence (AI) – actually Deep Learning including LLMs – is integrated in reality, through sensor and actuator. Thinking about it in terms of sequence unlocks ways to imagine related security and insecurity concerns. The article that was used as a basis for the episode is: Sensor and Actuator for AI (1): Inserting...

Have you ever heard about Cassandra’s brother, who shared his sister’s gift of prophecy but not her curse? This deep dive conversation uses the tale of Helenus to highlight ways to be successful when delivering and communicating strategic foresight and early warning... The article that was used as a basis for the episode is: From Seer to King – Success with Strategic Foresight and Warning (The dee...

If you’re ready to uncover the dynamics driving modern politics, Everstate is where the story begins. With Episode 4 we discover the first scenario for Everstate: Mamominarch. Alarmed by the rising difficulties and widespread discontent, the governing authorities decide to do something... Find out what and how these decisions and actions start playing out for the country, and for our three charact...

If you’re ready to uncover the dynamics driving modern politics, Everstate is where the story begins. With episode 3, we follow  ⁠Everstate,⁠  the fictional nation of Everstate—a mirror for modern-day states, as it faces yet another difficulty. As we saw previously, citizens must not only face rising threats but political authorities are also increasingly unable to deliver security. In the meantim...

If you’re ready to uncover the dynamics driving modern politics, Everstate is where the story begins. In Episode 2 of the Chronicles of Everstate, we dive deeper into the fictional nation of Everstate—a mirror for modern-day states—as it grapples with the pressures of a changing world. Citizens grow anxious over emerging threats, outdated economic models struggle to sustain a resource-scarce econo...

If you’re ready to uncover the dynamics driving modern politics, Everstate is where the story begins. Enter the world of Everstate, discover the country and the challenges it faces. You meet the main characters. Anya is a young woman who is a data analyst at Evernet, a successful technology company. Anya represents the Everstatan dream because she is ambitious and tech-savvy. Dimitri is professor...

If you’re ready to uncover the dynamics driving modern politics, Everstate is where the story begins. Step into the World of Everstate —a fictional modern nation-state crafted by Dr Lavoix for The Red Team Analysis Society to explore the forces shaping real-world futures. Through Everstate’s unfolding narrative, meet Anya, a digital scientist pushing tech boundaries; Dimitri, an economy teacher gr...

A deep dive into the article " Towards a U.S. Nuclear Renaissance? " by Dr Helene Lavoix - Cover Art (art direction and design) by ⁠ Jean-Dominique Lavoix-Carli⁠ . What is the American nuclear renaissance all about? Why is it important knowing, in 2024, the U.S. is still the first civil nuclear power in the world? How does it fit in with the global return to nuclear power? What does it mean for th...

To start our Foresight Frontlines podcast series, we present ourselves and what we do. And as we like experimenting with useful tools, we let the AI of NotebookLM create an audio dialogue on strategic foresight, our team, our approach and more. We hope after this podcast you will want to explore our website, we built for you, and that you will listen to Foresight Frontlines.