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Richard Lum
Oct 4, 20204 min read
5 Things Your Strategic Plans Need to Address Now
As you and your organization work on your plans for next year, the following are five things that your team needs to consider.
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Richard Lum
Sep 27, 20205 min read
Sensing the Future of Warfare
The Sensing Model is a valuable tool for looking at the future of conflict, particularly in a year of so many successive disruptions.
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Richard Lum
Sep 18, 20201 min read
Anticipating JARVIS
This is just one more scan hit supporting a couple of our previously discussed emerging issues.
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Richard Lum
Sep 18, 20201 min read
Is your strategic plan still valid in a COVID world?
Register for a FREE STRATEGIC FORESIGHT WEBINAR and Q&A Join us on Sept 24th for a free webinar and Q&A that will demonstrate how we can...
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Richard Lum
Sep 12, 20201 min read
Anti-Contagion Design (and returning to the office)
The emerging issue of "anti-pandemic design" was identified in the opening days of the US lock downs.
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Richard Lum
Sep 7, 20201 min read
Mapping the Future of Tourism
Dr. Richard Kaipo Lum will be presenting tomorrow at the Biodiversity Sri Lanka, Future in Tourism: Future in Nature technical session.
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Richard Lum
Sep 6, 20201 min read
"Social cryptomnesia," awesome phrase of the month
This was a great description by Richard Fisher of a fantastic phrase and a highly relevant pattern of change for today.
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Richard Lum
Sep 4, 20201 min read
Parental Dilemmas and Political Crisis
A couple of articles in the Washington Post grabbed our attention, and both addressed emerging issues anticipated earlier this year.
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Richard Lum
Sep 1, 20201 min read
Monsters on the fly, messages that resonate
With all the new technologies flying around today, the number of emerging issues that are popping is pretty large. Looking at some...
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Richard Lum
Aug 17, 20201 min read
The Coming Data War
“Boots on the Ground” may be no longer needed for many traditional military and intelligence activities. Operational effects,...
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Richard Lum
Aug 17, 20201 min read
Pandemic driving change (innovation?)
This is the most recent example of how the COVID-19 pandemic has been accelerating change across a variety of spaces:...
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Richard Lum
Aug 13, 202011 min read
Shredding Our Maps
The mental maps for 2020 that we all began the year with have been completely torn up. We all desperately want a new map of the...
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Richard Lum
Aug 12, 20201 min read
The SOF Identity Crisis and Future Implications
"Senior SF leadership must begin by acknowledging this crisis and commit to understanding and defining who Green Berets are and...
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Richard Lum
Aug 12, 20201 min read
On Radical Uncertainty
Another engaging podcast from EconTalk, and this time about a book of great relevance to thinking about the future, Radical Uncertainty....
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Richard Lum
Aug 3, 20201 min read
On How COVID-19 Defeated America
The following recent article in The Atlantic is an interesting - if fairly disheartening - discussion about America's failures (on...
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Richard Lum
Aug 1, 20201 min read
On "futurism" and fascism
A recent post from Wired. As one of the world's relatively few academically credentialed "futurists", I would offer that what the...
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Richard Lum
Jul 29, 20201 min read
Both parents and teachers are stressing about the Fall
As we anticipated in an earlier Trans-COVID roadmap, the severity and longevity of the COVID-19 pandemic is creating genuine dilemmas and...
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Richard Lum
Jul 28, 20201 min read
Xenobots! OK, so what are we talking about...?
One of the more interesting scan hits kicked up today by our Scan Daily newsletter, about living robots made from frog cells. Seriously....
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Richard Lum
Jul 14, 20201 min read
Discussions on Public Discourse Today
Here's a couple of interesting pieces, each talking about different yet related elements of what has shaped our current state of...
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Richard Lum
Jul 1, 20201 min read
The Challenge of Political Change
Our most recent Rapid Forecast conducts a brief exploration of possible political futures for America. With the significant social...
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