This is a long essay in four parts. The first part is my framework, making sense of the 40-over books I’ve gone through. The second part I give short descriptions of each of the books. The third part is a reflection of the process, and the fourth part is the actual list of books. Enjoy…
These three very broad frameworks have often been considered together. They really are very different tools, for very different sets of issues. Futures Thinking, as I’ve described, is a framework for thinking systematically…
This was first shared on Facebook, but thought this was worth sharing too here.
Long post on how I’m thinking about the Peh Shing Huei Book on Philip Yeo…
What do you need to have a good grasp of the various possible topics in futures thinking? I think…
This is part of a series of posts where I look at how people have looked at long periods of human history.
Jared Diamond wrote a series on books about people, and then about civilisations. And like Francis Fukuyama, they are linked to each other…
Generativity and Technology
Generativity is a fascinating concept. Generative is the property of some things to become a platform for all kinds of systems to be built around it. The Internet is generative; life is generative; contracts are generative. Good governance is generative. Generativity and the design concept of…
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