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If money is the most popular story, then capitalism is likely the 2nd most popular one. And if we are to capture its story in a single word it is growth.

I recorded this virtual keynote for a corporate client about 10 days ago and decided to share it publicly. Hope you enjoy it 😉    Technology is a Mirror, Not a Crystal Ball; It Reveals Who We Are, Not the Future   The 1st atomic bomb was nicknamed “gadget.” Does this say something about […]

A few weeks ago, a client asked me to give a virtual keynote on futurism. The client was pretty happy with how it turned out, so I thought I’d share it publicly. This way, you can hopefully enjoy, share, and benefit from it too. 😉  How to Be a Futurist [Without Predicting the Future] […]

The most popular and powerful technology is not the wheel. It is not the internet. It is not even money, even though almost everyone believes in money.

The story of our universe is called physics. Of atoms - chemistry. Of organisms - biology. Of human cultures - history. Our universe is made of stories, not atoms.

We are story-telling animals. And all of history is the human story, our story. This story takes many forms and shapes – religious, secular, scientific, economic...

The most important story, that which all other stories are derived from, is the story of the storyteller: the human story.

Humans are not Homo Sapiens. We are Homo Narrative. Because the biology of our story is the story of our biology.

Stories are not just stories. Stories matter. Because, to paraphrase Friedrich Nietzsche, if one has a sufficiently strong “why” one can endure any “how.”

No one is the villain in their own story. That's why the storyteller - i.e. he who writes history, is always good, benevolent, generous, right and wise.

Stories that spread don’t just win, they change the world. That's the power of story. And it's true of Christianity, Islam, Communism, Capitalism or Feminism.

We've sought meaning since the beginning. And we find it in story. The story that we tell ourselves. Thus, a world devoid of meaning becomes meaningful.

It was Jeff DeChambeau who brought all the essential elements together behind the definition of story as “information processing technology.”

Our future is determined by our story. And it doesn’t matter if you are an individual, a company or a nation – change your story, change your future.

Stories are equipment for living. But our equipment is obsolete. We must upgrade or go obsolete too. "ReWriting the Human Story" is my proposal to do that.

Dr. Gus Hosein is a 20+year-veteran of Privacy International. So to say that he knows a lot about privacy will be an understatement. But his knowledge is not merely academic. Gus and his scrappy team of privacy crusaders have fought the long and hard war while putting everything on the line, over and over again. […]

Though admittedly posthumanist, Francesca Ferrando‘s Philosophical Posthumanism is the best book on transhumanism that I have read so far. I believe that it is a must-read for transhumanists and non-transhumanists alike. In fact, one can argue that Ferrando’s book ranks right up there with the very best not only on the transhuman, but also on […]

Kim Stanley Robinson has an asteroid named after him. The reason for that is simple: Stan, as he’s often known among people who know him, is one of the best known contemporary authors of classic [hard] science fiction. He has written 20 books that have been translated into 25 languages and has won pretty much […]

Dr. Matthew Cole is the only vegan sociologist that I know of. His unique point of view on veganism, especially its implications with respect to ethics, transhumanism, and the application of technology, has already left a mark on the way I perceive the small challenges of being vegan as an opportunity for personal discipline and […]

Thomas Homer-Dixon is one of Canada’s most celebrated intellectuals. Luckily, he was also one of my Professors at the University of Toronto whose class on complexity has left an indelible mark on me. So when I heard that after a long break Homer-Dixon is publishing a new book on climate change I simply had to […]

Maria Farrell is the author of some of my most favorite op-ed pieces of 2020. She is very smart, gutsy, genuine, feisty, generous, and Irish. Her writing is sharper, it penetrates deeper and she’s not afraid to go further than most others. I have already learned a lot from her and have become a total […]

Glen Hiemstra has been a futurist for close to 40 years. But if you think his specialty is forecasting the future then you’d be wrong. No. Hiemstra’s focus has not been on the most probable, or even the possible future. Instead, Glen has chosen to focus consistently on what he calls “the preferred future.” This […]

Hans Moravec famously claimed that robots will be our (mind) children. If true, then, it is natural to wonder What to Expect When You’re Expecting Robots? This is the question that Laura Major and Julie Shah – two expert robot engineers, are addressing in their new book. Given the subject of robots and AI as […]

Juan Enriquez is a bestselling author, TED All-Star with 9 TED Talks, and countless TEDx talks. Juan is an angel investor and Managing Director of Excel Venture Management. He has sailed around the world on an expedition that increased the number of known genes a hundredfold and was part of the peace commission that negotiated […]

Chris Hables Gray foresaw the current global pandemic in 2013 during our 1st interview, which has been perhaps the most undervalued conversation I have had on my podcast. But, despite the fact that he has not been as appreciated by the public as he deserves to be, I have always been a fan of his […]