Futurology

“Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the museum of the millennium. That period in time in the 20th and 21st centuries when humanity transitioned from need to greed. When cathedrals of consumption were built in every city. When our forefathers and mothers (and ancestors of fluid gender) couldn’t get enough comfort…

Cyberspace in SF, in virtual reality, and in the web. Fair warning: I wrote this essay in the late 1990s while working as a software eningeer on the Autodesk Cyberspace initiative, reporting for Mondo 2000, and writing my Silicon Valley metaverse novel The Hacker and the Ants. …

After publishing his geopolitical forecast for the twenty-first century in The Next 100 Years (2009) George Friedman endeavored to provide a more detailed, explanatory and prescriptive discussion of his expectations for the next years, The Next Decade (2011). This being 2022 we can look back and consider how he did…

New York: Doubleday, 2009, pp. 272. All too often futurists limit themselves to describing past and present trends which they tell us will or will not continue with some vague result, rarely putting themselves out there by making specific, concrete, readily testable claims (or even offering a range of possibilities…

New York: Doubleday, 2011, pp. 272. The purpose of George Friedman’s new book The Next Decade is to offer a “higher-resolution” image of the first phase of the era he covered in his previous book, The Next 100 Years. Next Decade is much more detailed in its predictions of events…

By Alexandra Whittington The way we work is shifting. The pandemic accelerated the remote working trend, and many companies now embrace the benefits of telecommuting, such as higher employee satisfaction and productivity, plus considerable cost savings. …