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Richard Lum
May 5, 20232 min read
Practices for Everyday Futures Thinking
Two practices to help with everyday foresight.
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Richard Lum
Jun 20, 20222 min read
Disinformation is Not a Future Problem
In ten years’ time, “disinformation” is not going to be the headline. Something else will. Something else will dominate people’s...
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Richard Lum
Mar 25, 20224 min read
The DAO of Foresight
Bottom Line: foresight helps organizations anticipate today more of what is possible tomorrow. This is the way…
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Richard Lum
Mar 18, 20224 min read
The US Needs a Vision for the Future
The challenge of being an incumbent, of being king of the hill, is that you don’t want change. You like things the way they are. The...
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Richard Lum
Jun 14, 20215 min read
Defense Futures: Why All Our Scenarios Should be Disruptive
(note: this article was originally published in 2016) I am often struck by the fact that, from a futures perspective, many of the...
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Richard Lum
Nov 16, 20205 min read
The Future is neither WWII nor the Cold War
There are better analogies than WWII or the Cold War for thinking about our competitive futures.
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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
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 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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