Chaos and Complexity

Chaos and Complexity With this year’s Nobel Prize for physics going to three scientists working on climate science and complexity theory, there’s been renewed interest in complex systems and how our understanding of them can help guide how we positively...

Editorial Encounters and Musk Machinations

“You can’t publish that” said my wife. “People will think you can’t write!” My wife was reading the final draft of an article about Elon Musk’s just-announced Tesla Bot, and she wasn’t impressed. The article was prompted...

Undisciplined Academics

When disciplinary titles simply don’t hack it any more! Last week I was interviewed by a journalist writing for the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal about Chief Information Officers and ethics. As is usual with these conversations, one of their parting...

The future as an object?

What can we learn from thinking of the future as an object? In April 2020 I was poised to give a talk at TEDxASU … then coronavirus hit! The talk was inspired by the origins of my book Future Rising, and explored how thinking about the future provides unique insights...