by Andrew Maynard | Jul 20, 2022 | Blog
For anyone looking to read Future Rising in Korean, now you can! Future Rising has just been published in South Korea, in a Korean translation. It’s available online, and in bookshops! The Korean version of the title translates as “How do we read the...
by Andrew Maynard | Mar 15, 2022 | Blog
Former NASA astronaut Cady Coleman and I dig into a new batch of big questions for Season Two of the Mission Interplanetary podcast I can’t believe that it’s been a year since season one of the Mission: Interplanetary podcast launched. That first season...
by Andrew Maynard | Feb 2, 2022 | Blog
Noreen Maynard, 4 Jun 1941 – 24 Dec 2021 My mother may have passed before her time, but she left an enduring legacy of love and kindness In December, my mother Noreen Maynard passed away unexpectedly from covid. She was tough, tenacious, as stubborn as they...
by Andrew Maynard | Feb 2, 2022 | Blog
I was asked to watch a bunch of videos of drivers using Tesla’s FSD Beta. This is what I thought. Back in December, the Washington Post reporter Faiz Siddiqui asked me to respond to a number of videos showing Tesla’s Full Self Driving (FSD) beta technology...
by Andrew Maynard | Dec 9, 2021 | Blog
As the World Economic Forum annual Top Ten Emerging Technologies reaches it’s tenth year, here’s how it all started A couple of weeks ago, the World Economic Forum annual list of Top Ten Emerging Technologies reached its tenth anniversary. Co-published...
by Andrew Maynard | Nov 14, 2021 | Blog
Hulu does Food and the Future … and does it pretty well! A few weeks ago, a colleague sent me a link to Hulu’s new food series The Next Thing You Eat with chef David Chang. What caught their eye — and mine — was the series’ claim to be...
by Andrew Maynard | Oct 5, 2021 | Blog
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...
by Andrew Maynard | Sep 14, 2021 | Blog
“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...
by Andrew Maynard | Aug 18, 2021 | Blog
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...
by Andrew Maynard | Jul 9, 2021 | Blog
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...