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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
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...

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....

Richard Lum
Aug 12, 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...

Richard Lum
Aug 3, 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...

Richard Lum
Aug 1, 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...

Richard Lum
Jul 29, 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....

Richard Lum
Jul 28, 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...

Richard Lum
Jul 14, 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...

Richard Lum
Jul 1, 20201 min read
Anticipating Future Actors
This reminds of using past patterns to anticipate the emergence of new actors playing similar roles. "Could the Houthis Be the Next...

Richard Lum
Jul 1, 20201 min read
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