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How do we want our leaders, our organizations, and HR to be augmented by AI?Why is generative AI an historic opportunity for HR leaders to shape the future of work and leadership? My guests on this episode are Bob Johansen, Distinguished Fellow at Institute for the Future (IFTF), Gabe Cervantes, Director, Scalable Foresight, IFTF, and Jeremy Kirshbaum, CEO, Handshake, a generative AI consultancy who go deep into their new book, Leaders Make the Future: 10 New Skills to Humanize Leadership with Generative AI”During our conversation Bob, Gabe, and Jeremy and I discuss: How "future-backed thinking" helps leaders craft bold 10-year visions for their organizations.The shift from a VUCA world (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) to a BANI future (Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, Incomprehensible), and its implications for leaders.What early aviation's breakthroughs can teach us about managing AI innovation today and tomorrow.The rise of "smart mobs and agentic swarms" and how these new team structures will blend AI and human talent at scale. How HR can shape an AI-enabled workplace that keeps humans at the center.Connecting with Bob, Gabe and Jeremy: Connect with Bob Johansen on LinkedInConnect with Gabe Cervantes on LinkedInConnect with Jeremy Kirshbaum on LinkedInLearn more about “Leaders Make the Future: 10 New Skills to Humanize Leadership with Generative AI”Episode Sponsor: Next-Gen HR Accelerator - Learn more about this best-in-class leadership development program for next-gen HR leadersElevate 2025 - Learn more about this a flexible 3-week virtual program focused on taking your strategic capabilities and business impact to the next level with 16 interactive sessions led by 18 HR thought leaders.HR Leader's Blueprint - 18 pages of real-world advice from 100+ HR thought leaders. Simple, actionable, and proven strategies to advance your career.

"Once or twice a year, I like to do an episode about upcoming events that you can participate in. And this is especially helpful if you're looking for inspiration about how to think about the future, whether you're a science fiction writer, you just want to get ideas, or you're somebody who cares about the future and wants to come at it from a creative perspective."In the this How To Write the Future episode titled “Exploring Futuristic Events in 2025: A Guide for Science Fiction Writers” podcast host and science fiction and fantasy author and writing teacher, Beth Barany, shares strategic foresight events that are taking place in the futurist community that you can get involved in. Beth also shares information on her World Building Workbook for Fiction Writers which is available to download for free. RESOURCESAmy Webb's 2025 SXSW talk - Link to 2024 talk - https://youtu.be/5uLSDbh6M_U?si=k2KDD54_Jr1uYOCITeach for the Future https://www.teachthefuture.org/all-events - March 1, 2025IFTF https://www.iftf.org/APF - Association of professional Futurists: https://www.apf.org/School of International Futures (SOIF) - Registrations are now open for their Summer retreat in strategic foresight (28 July-1 August 2025). Register before 1 February to save £750. Please contact dawson@soif.org.uk to find out more. #SOIF2025 soif.org.uk/retreatGET HELP WITH YOUR WORLD BUILDING - START HEREFree World Building Workbook for Fiction Writers: https://writersfunzone.com/blog/world-building-resources/Sign up for the 30-minute Story Success Clinic with Beth Barany: https://writersfunzone.com/blog/story-success-clinic/Get support for your fiction writing by a novelist and writing teacher and coach. Schedule an exploratory call here and see if Beth can support you today: https://writersfunzone.com/blog/discovery-call/SHOW PRODUCTION BY Beth BaranySHOW CO-PRODUCTION + NOTES by Kerry-Ann McDadec. 2025 BETH BARANYhttps://bethbarany.com/Questions? Comments? Send us a text!--CONNECTContact Beth: https://writersfunzone.com/blog/podcast/#tve-jump-185b4422580Email: beth@bethbarany.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethbarany/CREDITSEDITED WITH DESCRIPT: https://get.descript.com/0clwwvlf6e3jMUSIC: Uppbeat.ioDISTRIBUTED BY BUZZSPROUT: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1994465

Send us a textOn this episode of 2 Fat Guys Talking Flowers, Mike and Fern sit down with the Jet Fresh team members who recently traveled to the Netherlands for the 2024International Floriculture Trade Fair (IFTF)! Dan, Jimi, Connor, and Anahi joined Mike on this floral adventure, and they're back to share their favorite moments-from picturesque canals and fragrant lilacs to meeting top breeders and witnessing the famous flower auction. With this year's IFTF shaping up to be the biggestyet, featuring a record-breaking 150+ growers from 13 countries, tune in as the team recounts how the event is evolving as a major global hub for floriculture.So grab your favorite cheese, get cozy, and take a trip to The Netherlands with the Fresh Masters.

This is part two of our conversation with Toshi Hoo who leads IFTF's Emerging Media Lab, where he explores the implications of rapidly evolving technologies that are transforming the ways humans communicate, collaborate and connect. Listen now to learn more about his work! Don't forget to follow or subscribe to the Heart of Giving podcast and leave a comment on iTunes. Follow us on Instagram @bbbwisegive and X @wisegiving. 

In this week's episode, our guest is Toshi Hoo. Toshi leads IFTF's Emerging Media Lab (EML), where he explores the implications of rapidly evolving technologies that are transforming the ways humans communicate, collaborate and connect. Listen now to learn more about his work! Don't forget to follow or subscribe to the Heart of Giving podcast and leave a comment on iTunes. Follow us on Instagram @bbbwisegive and X @wisegiving. 

How might we design new school models to better serve all young people? What are the skills, and jobs of tomorrow? IFTF's Foresight Essentials course is great for those looking to build something new or trying to innovate within their current role.  On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Tom Vander Ark is joined by Amanda Bickerstaff, the Co-Founder and CEO of AI for Education. Amanda has been involved in 10 edtech and impact startups over the past two decades and continues to drive important work to further teacher learning.  Links: Amanda Bickerstaff LinkedIn AI for Education Interview with Amanda The Way It Is by William Stafford Marcus Buckingham Red Threads Wellbeing For Learning OfCom Online Nation Report 2023  

The Fatty Gang has a few extra voices this week, as Jet Fresh & Jet Fresh Growers' team members, Edwin “The Dr” Perez, Dali May, Maria Jose “MaJo” and Paola join the podcast.  This crew just recently returned from a whirlwind of a trip to Holland for the annual IFTF (International Floriculture Trade Fair).  Listen in as they discuss all the highs and lows of their trip, from walking the show, to which booth had the best coffee, Edwin & MaJo's first time in Holland, the Red Light District and so much more!Learn more about the IFTF show at  https://hppexhibitions.com/iftf/IFTF is the annual floral expo held each year in Vijfhuizen, Netherlands hosted by HPP exhibitions. It is held at the same time as the FlorHolland expo in Aalsmeer Holland hosted by Royal FlorHolland the huge flower auction.Read the recap on our blog!

How might we design new school models to better serve all young people? What are the skills, and jobs of tomorrow? IFTF's Foresight Essentials course is great for those looking to build something new or trying to innovate within their current role.  On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Shawnee Caruthers is joined by Sharhonda Bossier, CEO of Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC) and Carmita Semaan, Founder of the Surge Institute.  EdLoC “supports talented leaders of color in education and related fields to thrive as disruptive and innovative agents of change.” The Surge Institute is “the preeminent pipeline addressing the dearth of leadership of color at decision-making tables. Surge educates, empowers and energizes leaders of color who will create transformative change in the communities they serve.” Links: Sharhonda Bossier Carmita Semaan EdLoC Surge Bridgespan Fellows  

In corporate life, strategy discussions often revolve around current trends, many of which have already being pioneered by startups or competitors. Unfortunately, this approach can sometimes result in playing catch-up rather than driving disruption. What if we could envision unexplored possibilities that lie beyond the current landscape? Today, my guest is an extraordinary visionary who delves into these untapped opportunities - exploring the potential futures that hold the power to profoundly impact our world. About Bob Johansen Bob Johansen has an impressive portfolio of 12 authored or co-authored books, many of which focus in the future of leadership. His most recent publication, titled Office Shock: Creating Better Futures for Working and Living, explores upcoming trends and proactive measures for preparing the next generation workplace. Throughout his career, he has held significant roles at IFTF (Institute for the Future) - from research director to president, and currently serves as a Distinguished Fellow. IFTF is a renowned futures organization globally, providing over five decades of invaluable support to businesses, governments, and social impact organizations. Their services include global forecasts, customized research, foresight education, and training to navigate intricate changes and develop future-ready strategies. How to connect with Bob Johansen LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-johansen/ His book Office Shock: Creating Better Futures for Working and Living: https://www.iftf.org/projects/officeshock/https://www.iftf.org/people/bob-johansen/  What We Discussed in this Episode on Getting Ready  for the Next Generation Workplace: - Anticipating the Future: How Will Organizations Maintain Employee Motivation? - Exploring the Officeverse: Creating a Sense of Belonging in the Workplace - Rethinking Performance Evaluation: Are New Approaches on the Horizon? - The Rise of AI: Revolutionizing Learning and Ending Monotonous Training Sessions? - Future Career Paths: Hybrid Learning and Diverse Curricula vs. Ivy League Education - Predicting Future Culture Challenges for Organizations: What Lies Ahead?   Join the next session of the online live course Unleash the Human Side of Innovation by Zuleka Kaysan and Ivan Palomino

For half a century, Bob Johansen has been forecasting the future. Clients, including Procter & Gamble, Walmart, and McKinsey, trust his vision. Moreover, he is an instructor at the Army War College. Along with coauthors Joseph Press and Christine Bullen, Bob has recently released “Office Shock: Creating Better Futures for Working and Living” — his 13th book. Ostensibly, Office Shock peers a decade ahead to describe the workplace of the future — the officeverse. Today's office towers face strong headwinds, as the purpose and function of tomorrow's office spaces will be rejiggered to prove a more equitable, accessible, purposeful, climate-positive future for knowledge work.  But host and award-winning author Dean Rotbart says Office Shock is about much more than real estate. It's about looking to the future now to take immediate steps to better prepare for what's to come.   “It's actually easier to think ten years ahead than it is one or two years ahead,” Bob says, discussing the effectiveness of taking a “futureback” approach to planning. Bob and his coauthors are associated with the Palo Alto, California-based Institute for the Future, a spinoff from RAND Corporation founded in 1968. IFTF is the world's oldest continuously running futures research and educational organization.   OTHER BOOKS BY BOB JOHANSEN: The New Leadership Literacies: Thriving in a Future of Extreme Disruption and Distributed Everything Get There Early: Sensing the Future to Compete in the Present Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World Photo: Bob Johansen, Institute for the FuturePosted: May 29, 2023Monday Morning Run Time: 47:59Episode: 11.41  POPULAR RECENT EPISODES: No Matter the Circumstances, Resilience is a Muscle Anyone Can Develop The Secret to Becoming an Extraordinary Leader: “Dux te ipsum duc” Stop Waiting For Someone to Anoint You a Leader, and Just Be One

The workplace of the future — the officeverse — will disrupt many of today's organizational models. The future officeverse will be the anytime/anyplace world of where we will work, when we will work, and how we will work. It will consist of a network of networks, with tools that will shape us in surprising ways over the next decade and beyond. The officeverse will provide a more equitable, accessible, purposeful, climate-positive future for knowledge work. While it will bring many challenges, including new concepts of sharing and managing boundaries, in the officeverse organizations will require flexibility and empowerment rather than command and control.  To prepare for the potential opportunities of the wider officeverse, every office worker, organization and policy maker should imagine how the world of work will look 10 years into the future. Such “futureback” thinking — opposed to present-forward — helps us to work backward from the future and make better decisions in the present. Questions to ask, starting with, “What's the purpose of your office and officing?” and “What are the desired outcomes you aim to achieve with your office and by your office activities?” prompt answers along a spectrum for each of seven key areas.  Bob Johansen began working with IFTF in 1973 and has worked as a professional futurist for nearly 50 years. The author or co-author of 12 books and a frequent keynote speaker, he recently completed a trilogy of that details the types of leadership that will thrive in the next decade. The New Leadership Literacies focuses on essential practices of leadership, picking up where Leaders Make the Future, its more skills-oriented precursor, left off; in 2020, he published Full-Spectrum Thinking, which focuses on the need for a futureback mindset. For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website: https://leaddontboss.com/260

Executive Director of the Institute for the Future Marina Gorbis and Institute for the Future Equitable Enterprise Initiative Advisor Jerry Davis discuss how to change the register from industrial values to collaborative commerce.

Bob Johansen began working with IFTF in 1973 and has been a professional futurist for nearly 50 years. The author or co-author of 12 books and a frequent keynote speaker recently completed a trilogy detailing the types of leadership that will thrive in the next decade. The New Leadership Literacies focuses on essential leadership practices, picking up where Leaders Make the Future, its more skills-oriented precursor, left off; in 2020, he published Full-Spectrum Thinking, which focuses on the need for a future back mindset.   His latest book, Office Shock: Creating Better Futures for Working and Living, is co-written with IFTF colleagues Joseph Press and Christine Bullen. Bob holds a B.S. from the University of Illinois (which he attended on a basketball scholarship), an MDiv from Crozer Theological Seminary (where Martin Luther King, Jr., attended divinity school), and a Ph.D. in Sociology of Religion from Northwestern University.   Here is what to expect on this week's show: https://www.workpositive.today/podcast ☀️ Bob's definition of future back. ☀️ Understand a VUCA model and how it can help you or your organization. ☀️ Why Clarity is more critical than Certainty. ☀️ Understand the seven spectrums of choice to help make better decisions about the future. ☀️ The importance of being honest with yourself and judgment-free of others. ☀️ Breaking News: Bob shares information on Office shock Chatbot. (grounded in GPT) ☀️ Chat GPT vs. CPT 3 ☀️ Bob's advice on paying attention to spotting signals and actively seeking out diverse perspectives and experiences.     Purchase the book: https://www.iftf.org/projects/officeshock/     Connect with Dr. Joey on www.workpositive.today Website: https://workpositive.today LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjoeyfaucette/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorkPositiveToday/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd1x1Sh3zPnz49lQ2MX68Zw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bob Johansen is a Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for the Future, and author of the new book Office Shock - which examines how the Office will shift the coming years from a physical place of work to an enabler for entirely new ways of working and living. In this podcast we discuss key findings from the book, and look in detail at how current hybrid and remote work arrangements are the harbingers of more radical change to come.Resources mentioned in this episode:Making Remote Work listeners can get a 30% discount on Office Shock by using this link: https://www.bkconnection.com/books/title/Office-Shock and using the code OFFSHOCK at checkout.You can attend the IFTF event - How to Prepare for Office Shock: Spectrum of Belonging, by using this link - https://www.linkedin.com/video/event/urn:li:ugcPost:7016839152654581761/Bob Johansen, IFTF DistInguished Fellow - Institute for the Future3-Minute trailer for Office Shock: Creating Better Futures for Working and Living: https://youtu.be/tnhvcSCYFsAofficeshock.orgTo order Office Shock: https://www.amazon.com/Office-Shock-Creating-Futures-Working/dp/1523003677/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Making Remote Work is a podcast focused on how to create hybrid of remote work environments that work well for employees and give employers strategic advantage. The podcast is brought to you by BillionMinds - A Company Focused on Making Remote Work for Everyone.You can sign up to join BillionMinds today for free by visiting www.billionminds.com/getstarted.

The way we understand equity in our schools is constantly evolving. Students and staff in our communities reflect a broader and richer spectrum of identity, heritage, and self-discovery at this moment than at any other moment in American history. Yet educational practice is still catching up, and the students most likely to be heavily impacted by trauma, such as the spectrum of recent events, are students of color, students with disabilities, and learners from other marginalized communities. How can a deeper understanding of the struggle for true equity in education inform the way we design schools and learning opportunities in the future? And what opportunities would exist for our school communities if we learned how to design education to be truly inclusive of all voices and perspectives from the very beginning?As educators and school leaders hone their methods in response to a growing understanding of the importance of representation and culturally responsive practices in the classroom, New View EDU dives into the subject with a transformative conversation on the power of structured imagination in creating inclusive cultures. Guests Lonny Brooks and Ahmed Best are, together, the co-hosts of the Afrofuturist podcast and creators of the game Afro-Rithms From the Future. Lonny is also a futurist, scholar, professor of communications, and co-principal investigator for the Long Term and Futures Thinking in Education Project; Ahmed is an award-winning actor best known for his role as Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars films, as well as a writer, director, producer, futurist, and science fiction devotee. They delve into how their shared understanding of the future-thinking orientation inherent in the Black American experience, and the lack of representation of the Black community in the science fiction and gaming worlds, led to their creation of a communal game experience devoted to “democratizing the future.” They also share what their work means for educators and schools everywhere.“For every algorithm of oppression, we have to have an Afrorithm of liberation.” What are Afrorithms? What does the concept of an “algorithm of oppression” mean for the way we build systems and structures throughout our society? Lonny and Ahmed trace the importance of futurist thinking from the historical realities of the slave trade, through the Drinking Gourd and the Underground Railroad, to the present day. With a keen eye toward the voices that are invited to tell and shape stories, and the perspectives that are left out, they examine how marginalization of different communities has shaped a culture that doesn't fully reflect its full diversity of heritage, ethnicity, experience, or thought. In this episode, hosts Tim Fish and Lisa Kay Solomon ask Lonny and Ahmed to share the inspiration and process behind the creation of their imaginative gameplay experience, and how they have consciously structured a virtual world that invites inclusive participation. Exploring how sensitivity to the importance of every individual's perspective and intrinsic value develops student agency, Lonny and Ahmed reflect on the ways in which educational and social structures may stifle the emergence of vitally needed new voices and points of view. A rich and nuanced discussion sheds light on the growth of Afrofuturism and the potential the discipline holds for transforming the way we learn, share, communicate, and build our future worlds, In what ways do we need to interrogate our well-meaning current practices and beliefs to create meaningful long-term change? And what would education for the next generation look like if we radically shifted practices to bridge divides and intentionally design a more inclusive future?Some of the key questions Tim and Lisa explore in this interview include:How do we bring structured imagination into our classrooms and communities to reimagine more just, equitable, and abundant futures?What role does the future—or futurism—play in helping us better understand the present?In what ways can school leaders and communities intentionally bring more future-oriented practices into their planning and into their classrooms?What is the value of being “seen,” and what does it take to become a “seer” of our students and community members?Resource List:The Afrofuturist Podcast: Learn more about Afrofuturism and Lonny and Ahmed's work by listening to their podcast.Afro-Rithms From the Future: Check out Ahmed and Lonny's immersive game to democratize the future.Institute for the Future: Familiarize yourself with Lonny's work as a research affiliate for IFTF.The Long Now Foundation: Check out the work of a foundation dedicated to long-term thinking.Afro-Rithms in Action: See Afro-Rithms From the Future played in this video from Fathomers.Community Futures School: Learn about Lonny's work to bring futures thinking and imagination to education.Black Speculative Arts Movement: Dive deeper into the world of Afrofuturism and structured imagination.In This Episode:“Afrofuturism is a combination of speculative fiction and science fiction and fantasy to envision alternative futures and memories about—about the future, leveraging our ancestral intelligence from the Black Diaspora, indigenous, people of color, but fundamentally based in the Black experience of the Middle Passage.” (2:12)“I think African people and those of African descent have always had the futurist mindset, the futurist thinking, and you know what I, what I like to talk about when we play Afro-Rithms, our game, is how as enslaved Africans were brought throughout the Western world, we had no choice but to look forward to a time where enslavement wasn't a possibility. Even the idea of the Civil Rights movement, and even before that, when we're talking about, you know, the 14th, 15th, 16th amendments in the United States, you have to be a futurist in the thinking in order to convince a body, a governmental body of which you have no representation in, that you are worth being moved from commodity to an actual human being.” (4:48)“A lot of times with futures thinking, people don't invest the amount of time that I think is necessary into futures thinking because they believe they can't afford it. Right. I think most people look at the past and try to learn from the past, and hedge the present on the past without looking forward to the future.” (10:03)“The screen is a portal to the universe. And if you are not taking advantage of the portal to the universe, the students are going to find another way to do it.” (11:25)“And I just think, you know, like with any language, the kids come to it more naturally. They are like the natural linguists in adopting that language and implementing it. So my students, you know, have access to putting in—implementing their voices, and especially their own cultural experiences into the game, that really expands and gets them excited about doing this work.” (22:00)“What I am interested in is letting you know that you are the only you in this universe, and that is special. And I want to hear what you have to say, right? I don't want you to do algebra. I want you to do your algebra. What does that mean? I don't want you to learn history. I want you to be able to learn history your way, right?” (30:21)“But I think what's tantamount, what's really important, is we have to, to stop thinking about the 20th century industrial age type of thinking where everybody's going to be on an assembly line and get a job. I think we have to move more toward the individual idea of the process of each person. Believe that each student is special in their own right. And give the student the ability to get a dream rather than get a job.” (34:12)Full TranscriptAbout Our Guests:Ahmed Best was a founding member of the acid jazz group The Jazzhole and starred in the Broadway musical Stomp. He then went on to be the first CGI lead character in a motion picture, starring as Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith.A graduate of the American Film Institute, Ahmed is an Ovation Award, LACC Award, Stage Raw Award, and Annie Award winner. He's the executive producer of The DL Chronicles (GLAAD award winner for Best Anthology series); co-director of the web series Bandwagon; and the creator, writer, and director for the web series This Can't Be My Life and the sci-fi comedy The Nebula. Ahmed is addicted to culture and devoted to the future.Lonny J Avi Brooks is an associate professor in the communication department at California State University, East Bay, which is, in turn, part of the newly formed School of Arts Media. He teaches in the public, professional, and organizational concentration in communication, and he is the co-principal investigator for the Long Term and Futures Thinking in Education Project. He has piloted the integration of long term and futures thinking into his communication courses for the last four years.His current manuscript is Working in the Future Tense@Futureland: Circulating Afrofuturetypes of Work, Culture and Racial Identity (in review). His latest articles include the forthcoming “Minority Reports from 2054: Building Collective and Critical Forecasting Imaginaries and Afrofuturetypes in Game Jamming” for the special 2018 issue of the Canadian journal TOPIA: Black Lives, Black Politics, Black Futures, and “Cruelty and Afrofuturism,” a special commentary section for the Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies journal. With Dr. Reynaldo Anderson, Lonny published “Student Visions of Multiple Urban Futures 2050” in Envisioning Futures for Environmental and Sustainability Education. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we are joined by Bob Johansen who has been helping organisations around the world prepare for and shape the future for nearly forty years. Bob is a distinguished fellow at Institute for the Future where he utilises his extensive training in the social sciences and experience with top leaders of business, government, and nonprofit organisations to encourage thoughtful consideration of the long-term future. He is also the author of a number of books exploring potential futures, including Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain Age and The Reciprocity Advantage: A New Way to Partner for Innovation and Growth. What we cover: Bob explains how he and IFTF help companies like McKinsey, Tesco, UPS, Disney, McDonald's, and Syngenta navigate and survive in the VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world of the future. We discuss the roles for leaders, organisations and individuals in this world of the future – what will and what won't work based on case studies in his two recent books Leaders Make the Future and The Reciprocity Advantage. Explore what particular skills and mindsets will be most in demand in the future and how some words of wisdom from Peter Drucker informed his own mindset and habits.

Jason McIntosh and Jacqueline Ashwell join the Titans to talk about the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation, IFComp, Narrascope and everything else Interactive Fiction. Find more about the IFTF online at https://iftechfoundation.org/ Special Guests: Jacqueline Ashwell and Jason McIntosh.

This is an excerpt from noted IFTF futurist Bob Johansen's book, Full-Spectrum Thinking, which goes beyond skills and competencies to propose five new leadership literacies—combinations of disciplines, practices, and worldviews — that will be needed to thrive in a VUCA world of increasing volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. This book shows how to (1) forecast likely futures so you can “look back” and make sure you’re prepared now for the changes to come, (2) use low-risk gaming spaces to work through your concerns about the future and hone your leadership skills, (3) lead shape-shifting organizations where you can’t just tell people what to do, (4) be a dynamic presence even when you’re not there in person, and (5) keep your personal energy high and transmit that energy throughout your organization. To learn more about Full-Spectrum Thinking, visit: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/617262/full-spectrum-thinking-by-bob-johansen/

Through this season of Feeding 10 Billion, two names that have cropped up in nearly every episode are the pioneers of plant-based meats: Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods. Beyond Meat had the biggest IPO in North America in the last two decades this year. Impossible Foods was first served in Michelin starred restaurants in 2016 and is now making waves at chains like Burger King thanks to its plant-based beef burger being served as the Impossible Whopper - leading to BK’s best quarter in the last four years. On this special episode of Feeding 10 Billion, we feature a conversation between senior executives of these companies (Seth Goldman - Executive Chairman at Beyond Meat, and David Lipman - Chief Scientific Officer at Impossible Foods) and representatives of organisations like FAIRR, Centre for Biological Diversity and Institute for the Future’s Future Food Lab, along with Varun Deshpande, Managing Director at the Good Food Institute India. The conversation took place at a panel during the blockbuster second iteration of the Good Food Conference in San Francisco. With 900 people in attendance, the session focused on some of the weightiest issues surrounding plant-based and cultivated meat’s potential to address antibiotic resistance, global malnutrition and poverty, climate change and natural resource utilization. Of course, this is a massive undertaking that needs to balance business with issues such as biodiversity as well as global access to good food. The government, investors, companies, and even themselves - these panelists pull punches for nobody! Show Notes- This episode features panelists from the panel: The “Why”: Mitigating Environmental and Public Health Risks at the Good Food Conference held in San Francisco this year. If you would like to look up the other panel discussions held at the event, you can find them on the GFC website. If you want to learn more about how India fits into the puzzle of the global alternative protein’s dizzying growth, or are keen to collaborate and build this new protein sector as an entrepreneur, investor, food corporation or scientist, please do visit the Future of Protein website and register to attend. The event is on from Nov 11 to 12 in New Delhi and entry is free! COMPANIES MENTIONED: Beyond Meat is a ten-year-old company that had the biggest IPO in North America in the last two decades this year. Beyond makes meat directly from plants and its revolutionary food-tech products made out of proteins like peas, mung or fava beans, brown rice and sunflower and fas like cocoa butter, and coconut, sunflower or canola oil that replace burgers, sausages, mince or ground meat can be found in 58000 grocery stores in the US. Impossible Foods which was formed in 2011 and was the first plant-based meat to be offered by Michelin restaurants in 2016 and soon made it to the menus of White Castle followed by Burger King last year. Impossible Burgers are made with 96% less land, 87% less water and 89& fewer green house gas emissions than burgers made from cows. FAIRR - Established by the Jeremy Coller Foundation, the FAIRR Initiative is a collaborative investor network that raises awareness of the material ESG (Environmental, Social or Governance) risks and opportunities caused by intensive animal production. FAIRR helps investors to identify and prioritise these factors through cutting-edge research that investors can then integrate into their investment decision-making and active stewardship processes. Centre for Biological Diversity : Based in Tucson, Arizona, is a nonprofit membership, this is an organization with approximately 1.1 million members and online activists, known for its work protecting endangered species through legal action, scientific petitions, creative media and grassroots activism Institute for the Future's Future Food Labs: The Institute for the Future is a California, US–based not-for-profit think tank that was established, in 1968, to help organizations plan for the long-term future, a subject known as futures studies. IFTF’s Food Futures Lab identifies and catalyzes the innovations that have the potential to reinvent our global food system. We help stakeholders—multinational food companies, farmers, chefs, entrepreneurs, and more—make sense of emerging technologies, social behaviors, and scientific breakthroughs and take action toward a more resilient, equitable, and delicious future of food. Honest Tea - a product mentioned in the podcast by Seth Goldman - is the top selling organic bottled tea brand in the US and was founded by Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff in 1998. It was sold to Coca Cola in 2011 and sales have been reported in the 100 million dollar range post acquisition. BIBLIOGRAPHY Max Elder writes about the opportunities driving the future of affordable nutrition in the report titled Good Food is Good Business Coller FAIRR Protein Producer Index analyzes companies like Hormel and the Brazilian meat firm JBS, finding that many of the 60 largest in the sector aren’t taking the necessary steps to reduce their environmental impacts. Amara’s Law by Roy Amara, the former president of the Institute for the Future, states that: We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

Playing for Team Human today is systems thinker, writer, and filmmaker Nora Bateson. Nora will be telling us how to stop looking at things as objects and begin seeing the spaces and connections between them. It’s not too late to bring our species back from the brink! This conversation was recorded backstage in Palo Alto at the Institute For the Future's (IFTF) 50th Anniversary Gala.I first met at Nora Bateson at a general semantics conference where she was screening her then brand new film An Ecology of Mind about her father Gregory Bateson, one of the principle developers of cybernetic and systems theory. But as I got to know Nora and her work, particularly the book Small Arcs of Larger Circles, I realized she was taking what we think of as systems theory to a whole new and intrinsically human level. I ran into her again at the fiftieth anniversary conference of the Institute For the Future in Palo Alto where she gave an entirely optimistic yet grounded talk on how to bring an awareness of the liminal spaces between systems into account as we attempt to make our world more consonant with the values of life.Douglas opens today's show with a monologue on Universal Basic Income (UBI) and why, if the goal is economic justice, a universal "allowance" just won't do.“The vast transfer of wealth from the poor to rich may be complete, but now we can use UBI to funnel even more capital up to the already wealthy and keep the scheme going.”To learn more about our guest, Nora Bateson, please visit https://norabateson.wordpress.comYou can watch her film here: http://www.anecologyofmind.com/If you liked this episode, check out Team Human Ep. 07 featuring IFTF executive director Marina Gorbis On this episode you heard Fugazi’s “Foreman’s Dog” in the intro, Herkhimer Diamonds “Xmas Underwater” and our closing music is thanks to Mike Watt.Team Human is listener supported. To subscribe via Patreon or Drip, go to TeamHuman.fm/support . You can also help by reviewing the show on iTunes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In less than ten years, more than a half billion people will be trying to earn a living in the on-demand economy. It’s up to all of us to make sure this new economic system works for everyone. To help spark transdisciplinary research and development of Positive Platforms, IFTF’s Workable Futures Initiative, with the support of the Ford Foundation, hosted Positive Platforms Jams at our offices in Palo Alto while fellow travelers in our global network held satellite events at community hubs and hacker spaces in Helsinki, Milan, Barcelona, Dublin, and other cities around the world. During the Positive Platforms Jams, Designers, engineers, policymakers, and labor organizers gathered for two days to hack away on platform prototypes, replicable design frameworks, new financial tools, data management systems, and methods to tease out the hidden problems inherent in many platform models.

Going green is about more than sexy, high-tech hardware. Just as important are the “nuts and bolts” of sustainability. SolarRoofHook’s been growing rapidly in the solar industry by working its niche by providing innovative, simple, and effective mounting solutions for residential roof. Joining us is Rick Gentry, VP of Sales for SolarRoofHook. The Institute for the Future recently took part in the US Chamber of Commerce’s Food Forward Summit. Joining is us Sarah Smith with the IFTF’s Food Futures Lab to share with us some of their new insights on Food Innovation.   The Chicago River is nationally known for being died green every St. Patrick’s Day. But there’s much more   - it’s a 156-mile river system that’s a story of  a polluted, industrial waterway that’s on its way to becoming ecologically healthy. Joining is us Margaret Frisbie, Executive Director of the Friends of the Chicago River.  

In our interview with Marina Gorbis, Executive Director for the Institute for the Future, you'll learn about how IFTF helps people imagine the possibilities of what's to come, how to spot signals of the future, and whether Marina thinks college still matters.

Institute for the Future researchers Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz talk with neuroscientist and IFTF fellow Melina Uncapher, CEO and co-founder of the Institute for Applied Neuroscience that brings scientific research about our brains to critical social issues.

IFTF Research Director Bradley Kreit discusses IFTF's research into the technologies and societal forces that will transform when, where, how, and why we communicate in a world of ambient media.

A discussion with Rod Falcon, Director of the Technology Horizons Program at Institute for the Future. In his 1854 book, Walden, Henry David Thoreau wrote, “Men have become the tools of their tools.” Thoreau's assertion is as valid today as it was when he made it over one hundred and sixty years ago. Whenever we shape technology, it shapes us, both as individuals and as a society. We created cars, and cars turned us into motorists, auto mechanics, and commuters. Over the centuries we’ve populated our world with machines that help us do things we can't or don't want to do ourselves. Our world has become so saturated with machines that they’ve faded into the background. We hardly notice them. We are reaching a new threshold. Our machines are getting networked, and enabling new forms of human machine symbiosis. We're entering a new era where fifty billion machines are in constant communication, automating and orchestrating the movement and interactions among individuals, organizations, and cities. Institute for the Future (IFTF) is a non-profit think tank in Silicon Valley, that helps organizations and the public think about long term future plans to make better decisions in the present. In this episode of the IFTF podcast, Mark Frauenfelder, a research director at IFTF interviewed Rod Falcon, IFTF's Director of the Technology Horizons Program, which combines a deep understanding of technology and societal forces, to identify and evaluate these discontinuities and innovations in the near future. Rod discussed Tech Horizon's recent research into how machine automation is becoming an integrated, embedded, and ultimately invisible part of virtually every aspect of our lives.

Today’s Team Human was recorded live on the floor of the 2016 Personal Democracy Forum, where we caught up with Marina Gorbis, executive director to the Institute for the Future (IFTF). Marina joins Team Human to help us see how a utilitarian value set has been embedded into our society and its technologies. Together Marina and Douglas discuss those ambiguous and even anomalous qualities of being human, while looking to a future that embraces humanity as something greater than mere data points.This episode also features Rushkoff’s closing talk at the Personal Democracy Forum.You can learn more about the Marina’s Work at IFTF by visiting iftf.org or directly linking to her latest book: The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructed World.  Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today’s Team Human was recorded live on the floor of the 2016 Personal Democracy Forum, where we caught up with Marina Gorbis, executive director to the Institute for the Future (IFTF). Marina joins Team Human to help us see how a utilitarian value set has been embedded into our society and its technologies. Together Marina and Douglas discuss those ambiguous and even anomalous qualities of being human, while looking to a future that embraces humanity as something greater than mere data points.This episode also features Rushkoff’s closing talk at the Personal Democracy Forum.You can learn more about the Marina’s Work at IFTF by visiting iftf.org or directly linking to her latest book: The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructed World. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In 2013, Mike Zuckerman, a self-described culture hacker, attended the White House’s National Day of Civic Hacking. Inspired by what he’d learned there, Mike returned to San Francisco and founded [freespace], an organization that focuses on sustainability and urban tactical development. In the spring of 2016, Mike went to Greece where he spent four months rehabilitating an abandoned clothing factory in the industrial sector of Thessaloniki, turning it into a humane shelter that he and his colleagues named Elpida. Unlike the official migrant camps in Greece, where refugees have little say in the day-to-day operations of the camp, Elpida put its 140 residents in charge, and the results were remarkable. Not only is Elpida much less expensive to run on a per person basis than official camps in Greece, the residents don’t suffer from boredom, restlessness, and disengagement like they do at NGO-run camps. As a pilot model, Elpida offers hope and improved living conditions for refugees in a place where no other NGO was able to provide in this kind of support. Mike has been working with Institute for the Future as an affiliate since 2014 and recently accepted an IFTF fellowship to help uncover and study new paradigms for restoring vulnerable places and space, such as post-disaster sites, informal refugee settlements, and decaying urban neighborhoods.  I spoke to Mike about his work at Elpida in August, 2016, just days after he returned from Greece.

When computer scientist Andreas Antonopoulos first heard about bitcoin in 2011 he dismissed it as “nerd money.” Six months later he happened on bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto’s now-legendary white paper written in November 2008. This nine-page, dryly-written document unrolled a blueprint for a system that would replace large swaths of the financial services industry with a globally-distributed encryption-based transaction network that wasn’t owned by anyone. After reading the white paper, Antonopoulos’ mind was blown. “This isn’t money,” he realized, “it’s a decentralized trust network,” with applications extending far beyond digital currency. Antonopoulos says he became “obsessed and enthralled” with bitcoin, “spending 12 or more hours each day glued to a screen, reading, writing, coding, and learning” as much as he could. He said, “I emerged from the state of fugue, more than 20 pounds lighter from a lack of consistent meals, determined to dedicate myself to working on bitcoin.” Five years later, Antonopoulos’ work has paid off. The 43-year-old entrepreneur is one of the most respected experts in bitcoin and blockchain technology, and he regularly shares his expertise with businesses and organizations around the world. His 2014 book, Mastering Bitcoin, was called the “best technical reference available on bitcoin today,” by Balaji Srinivasan, the CEO of 21.co, and has received high praise from Gavin Andresen, Chief Scientist of the Bitcoin Foundation. My name is Mark Frauenfelder. I’m a research affiliate at Institute for the Future, a nonprofit thinktank that helps organizations and the public think systematically about the future in order to make better decisions in the present. In January 2016, IFTF launched the the Blockchain Futures Lab, a research initiative and a community for “identifying the opportunities and limits of blockchain technologies and their social, economic, and political impacts on individuals, organizations, and communities over the coming decades.” I spoke to Antonopoulos to get his thoughts on the current state of blockchain technology and where it’s headed. What he had to say to be surprising and enlightening. To learn more about Institute for the Future and the Blockchain Futures Lab, visit IFTF.org

The Internet we know today is only one possible interpretation of the original vision of an open, peer-to-peer network. Think of it as a first-generation Internet, built on a fragile global network of vulnerable codes subject to abuse and even collapse. This Internet is failing from too close an encounter with a triple shock: a massive economy built on mining terabytes of personal data, ubiquitous criminal penetration of financial and identity networks, and pervasive state intruders at all levels and at every encrypted hardware and software node. Today we also see efforts to address the Internet’s vulnerabilities. But these are just the first steps toward a resilient Second Curve Internet. In the Institute for the Future's new Second Curve Internet Speaker Series, we’ll explore the critical elements necessary to reinvent the Internet, gathering leading minds together with IFTF’s deep experience thinking about technology and the ways of communicating, coordinating, and organizing in the changing world around us. We're honored to feature the visionary Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) as our first speaker in the series. Cory is a science fiction author, activist, journalist, and blogger. His forthcoming book, Information Doesn't Want to be Free: Laws for the Internet Age, examines copyright law and the ways in which creativity and the Internet interact today—and what might be coming next. A limited number of early copies will be available for purchase at the event.

Socialstructing is a new model that empowers individuals, rather than institutions, to create impact by utilizing modern technology to build large networks. In this audio lecture from the 2013 Nonprofit Management Institute, Marina Gorbis describes how micro-contributions from people in these networks enable flexibility and unlock potential in ways that institutions cannot. She shares three stories about successful socialstructing: the transformation of an abandoned building, fostering science education, and collecting crime-related data worldwide. Gorbis explains that, through socialstructing, technology allows individuals to accomplish difficult tasks without money, staff, or management, and generates new types of value that can replace institutional approaches in the future. Marina Gorbis is a futurist and social scientist. She serves as executive director at the Institute for the Future (IFTF), a Silicon Valley nonprofit research and consulting organization. In her fourteen years with IFTF, Gorbis has brought a futurist perspective to hundreds of organizations in business, education, government, and philanthropy to improve innovation capacity, strategy development, and product design. She has written a book, called “The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructed World,” and has written for BoingBoing.net, FastCompany, Harvard Business Review, and other major media outlets. Gorbis holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s in public policy from UC Berkeley. https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/the_nature_of_the_future_from_institutions_to_amplified_individuals

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Bob Johansen, former President & CEO of the Institute for the Future (IFTF), currently Distinguished Fellow for IFTF, & is an award-winning author. His most recent is Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World. Today's businesses & organizations are operating in a world characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, & ambiguity according to Bob Johansen. To be successful in the future, leaders will need an emerging set of skills uniquely suited to dealing with challenges of the times we are in. He sees these times as the most frightening and as the most hopeful. Bob believes that connectivity is the key, & we are not fully realizing the benefits of that. “Powerful leaders will see connections in the larger systems of which they are a part, embrace shared assets & opportunities, & cut through the chaos…in this decade, leaders will not just see the future—they will make the future!” Join Cheryl Esposito & Bob Johansen as they reveal the leadership keys to the future!

Today on the 7th anniversary of the War in Iraq and the changing guard of seasons, Winter into Spring, we reflect transcendentally on how art heightens and expands conversations about life & death & life after death. Last week we spoke to director, Freida Lee Mock about Lt. Ehren Watada, the subject in her latest film. He was court marshaled for refusing to deploy to Iraq. Today we speak to a woman, Mrs. Mildred Dill'Ard who at 92 has lived through many wars and even more history as this young nation finds its true personality and rises to the greatness it is capable of. Mrs. Dill'Ard opens the show with cast and director of The Delany Sisters: First 100 Days: Monica Justice & Macia Branisel, alternating roles as "Bessie Delany," & director, Sean Vaughn Scott. Visit http://blackrepertorygroup.com/ Susie Butler depicts jazz legend, Ms. Sarah Vaughn, at her 86th Birthday Tribute, March 28, 2010, at the Jazz Heritage Center, located in the Yoshi's Jazz Complex, 1330 Fillmore, in San Francisco, at 2 PM and 5 PM. For ticket information please call (415) 255-7745. Visit http://www.sassysusiebutler.com/music.html Next is David Evan Harris, Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Future and Executive Director of the Global Lives Project, a non-profit media organization with more than 250 volunteer collaborators in 10 countries. His work with IFTF focuses on social change, political economy, the global south and new media. Global Lives is currently at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts through June 20 in the Big Ideas Gallery. Visit http://globallives.org/ We close with a conversation with filmmakers participating www.asianamericanmedia.org: S.Leo Chiang, "A Village Called Versailles" and Gerry Balasta, "The Mountain Thief." We again feature music from Babatunde Lea's latest "Umbo Weti: A Tribute to Leon Thomas": "Sun Song" with Dwight Trible in vocals, Gary Brown on bass, Ernie Watts on tenor sax, Patrice Rushen on piano and of course, Babatunde Lea on percussion.

Sept 26, 2005. Rudy’s talk on “Gnarly Computation” at the Institute for the Future, Palo Alto, September 26, 2005. The slides for this talk are online. And there’s a blog post on the talk. This talk serves as lecture #1 for my online Philosophy and Computers course. (46.93MB. min.) Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.