thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

in the future, jobs will drop in your lap

Max Stucki is the Foresight Analysis Manager at Futures Platform. He has worked with multiple organizations identifying and making sense of trends affecting both the public and private sectors. Futures Platform supports organizations in all decision-making with a digital foresight solution that helps to discover future changes and is curated by a team of futurists.

we no longer need to follow the traditional path - a multitude of paths are in front of us.

Thinly Veiled Sales Messages Are 90% Of The Internet

Overcoming fear of being your authentic self in business, community and education • Identify, value, and unleash your gifts • Business, community and our world need your natural-born gifts

Tank, I want to learn how to fly a helicopter. Done.

this is the real future of work - no more monolithic "jobs"

Michael Fulton is a Vice President of Product Strategy & Innovation at Expedient, an Enterprise cloud provider in the US.   Mike joined Expedient in October 2019 and has overall responsibility for the company’s IaaS Product Portfolio as well as responsibility for injecting the voice of customers throughout the product development process.    Mike also teaches digital t...

collaboration might not be the best way to get the best ideas.

you need to stop putting things in boxes

Angel Anderson is the Director of Impact Innovation at Philosophie where she leads a design practice focused on corporate social responsibility. Her work examines the unintended consequences of design while positively shaping the long-term effects for people and the planet. Prior to joining Philosophie, Angel was the CEO and Co-Founder of NailSnaps, and before that, she served as the VP of Experie...

what do you do when you see an anomaly?

experiments are your friend

Experienced strategist, technology, IoT and innovation leader with a demonstrated history of success in government and private sector industries. Skilled in process improvement, budgeting, operations management, strategy, customer experience, and entrepreneurship. Accomplished in applying technology to improve efficiencies, customer experiences and productivity.

there are thousands of researchers out there ready to find you out.

how do you spend the last 15 minutes of your day?

Ty Montague is co-founder and CEO of co:collective, a creative and strategic transformation company who serves clients like Google, YouTube, IBM, PUMA, Microsoft, MOMA, Infiniti, Capital One, and Timberland.  Ty believes that there are businesses who are “storytellers” and “storydoers. “Storytellers” are traditional brands like McDonald’s, United, and Clorox: They tell their stories through c...

humans love a story

you need both to ideate

I can talk about my projects all day long and bore everyone to tears. It's the transformation that these projects initiate, support, and updraft that is really exciting to me. The projects, however, do not define themselves. Listening to our people's pain points while they struggle towards their vision of a future state is what kick's off a frenzy of defining the problem(s). Being intimate with ou...

why are we still educating people like it's 1899?

hiring people is broken and we need to fix it

Mikko Dufva is Sitra’s leading foresight specialist. In his work, he examines future trends, the tensions between these trends, and mental images connected with the future. In addition, he seeks to identify signals that may be weak now but are nevertheless significant from the point of view of the future.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/dufva

the key to survival is virtualization

why don't our assistants just assist us