“Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.” –W. Edwards Deming

When I commented a few days ago about strategies for dealing with the future other than futuring I mentioned two: quick reactions and resilience. I just thought of a third: muddling through. Probably it is the most common way people, groups and societies move forward. A little planning, a little insight, a lot of wrangling about what to do and ...

A recent opinion-piece in Wired magazine is titled flatly: “Futurism is Dead.” The article condemns the field of futurism and the World Future Society in particular as failures because the record of predictions from professional futurists has been so bad. The great irony is that there has been no publication with as many articles over the past 10 to 15 ...

Social networking targets the enterprise Here’s a new gimmick that is CRM, Friendster and social software all rolled into one. And it seems pretty snoopy too.