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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.

Richard Lum
Nov 16, 20205 min read


Webinar Highlights - A Map with No Edges: Anticipating and Shaping the Future Operating Environments
You can now review highlights of the presentation and the Q&A at your convenience.

Richard Lum
Nov 9, 20201 min read


A Map with No Edges
Dr. Lum's article, published today in the Small Wars Journal, emphasizes that "we need to define the range of future outcomes that...

Richard Lum
Nov 5, 20201 min read


American Futures 2021: Brief #1
The American Futures 2021 project is a series of rapid forecasts to explore the continually shifting landscape of 2021.

Richard Lum
Nov 3, 20201 min read


Webinar Highlights - Foresight for Thriving in an Age of Uncertainty
Thank you to all who attended the webinar! We especially appreciated the contributions to an active Q&A session.

Richard Lum
Nov 1, 20201 min read


VFS Webinar- A Map With No Edges
A Map with No Edges: Anticipating and Shaping Future Operating Environments There is no single “future of conflict” that we can discern...

Richard Lum
Oct 28, 20201 min read


Warning Signs- Domestic Terrorism
The trickle of articles and references pointing to a potential rise in Domestic Terrorism led to the announcement this morning by the FBI...

Richard Lum
Oct 8, 20201 min read


Foresight for Thriving in an Age of Uncertainty
Join us on October 22nd, 2020 for an introduction to how organizations can use foresight to move from surviving to thriving.

Richard Lum
Oct 7, 20201 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.

Richard Lum
Oct 4, 20204 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.

Richard Lum
Sep 27, 20205 min read


Anticipating JARVIS
This is just one more scan hit supporting a couple of our previously discussed emerging issues.

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...

Richard Lum
Sep 18, 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.

Richard Lum
Sep 12, 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.

Richard Lum
Sep 7, 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.

Richard Lum
Sep 6, 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.

Richard Lum
Sep 4, 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...

Richard Lum
Sep 1, 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,...

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:...

Richard Lum
Aug 17, 20201 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...

Richard Lum
Aug 13, 202011 min read
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