Windows Media … Diane speaks with renowned physician and social activist Paul Farmer. In his latest book, he encourages young people to tackle the greatest challenges of our times, from global health and poverty to …
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Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What …
Technology Trend – The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has developed a prototype system to help flights avoid major storms as they travel over remote ocean regions. The 8-hour forecasts of potentially dangerous atmospheric …
Environmental Trend – We could refreeze the Arctic, and it wouldn’t even cost that much, scientists have claimed. Two recently published studies explore the possibility that a technological solution could be found to the problem …
Technology Trend – Location sensing has become ubiquitous—it’s present every time you turn on your smartphone or engage your car’s navigation system. It’s also become critical to a variety of outdoors and remote research applications, …
Environmental Trend – As drought conditions persist across the South, hitting farmers and ranchers, parts of the Mississippi River are on the verge of becoming unnavigable. The potential costs are large. Less than 18 months …
Global Trend – China’s economy is likely to surpass the United States in less than two decades while Asia will overtake North America and Europe combined in global power by 2030, a U.S. intelligence report …
Global Trend – Nearly two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities by 2030, with most people middle class, connected by technology, protected by advanced health care and the United States and China perhaps …
Environmental Trend – A climatologist in the United States says the Arctic Circle should be a no-fly zone for major commercial flights. In a new report, Mark Jacobson, a professor of civil engineering at Stanford …
Environmental Trend – Even as drought-stricken Midwestern states squabble over diminishing water supplies in the region, a new federal-state study raises the idea of constructing a 670-mile pipeline to divert water from one of the …
Technology Trend – Four years ago, iRobot co-founder Helen Greiner stepped down from the company she helped turn into an all-important supplier of the military’s growing arsenal of ground robots. Now today, she’s unveiled the …
Technology Trend – At this very moment, Apple is working on technology that, if successfully developed, will cannibalize and ultimately destroy that iPhone business. We have two pieces of evidence. The first is that Apple …
Global Trend – It’s becoming the trademark move of failing regimes: silence your critics and cripple their communications by cutting off the internet. Libya did it. Egypt too. And last week, Syria pulled the plug …
Technology Trend – A year ago, two MIT Media Lab graduates raised half a million dollars on Kickstarter to create Twine, a cigarette-pack-sized chunk of Internet magic that promised to turn any object in your …
Business Trend – A private enterprise named the Golden Spike Company announced on 6 December that they have plans to fly manned crews to the Moon and back for a price of $1.5 billion (£934 …
Social Trend – What happens if you drop off a thousand Motorola Xoom tablet PCs in a village with kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they’ll have taught themselves …
Windows Media From the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to the 2008 financial collapse, many of the most consequential events in recent history caught government and investors off guard. In 2007, Nassim Nicholas Taleb provided a …
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The advantages to making products in the U.S. are starting to stack up — and companies are taking notice. Among them are Apple, which announced Thursday it plans to start producing some of its …
Technology Trend – Recent years have seen a string of breakthroughs in hacking the minds of insects. Insect brains are probably the simplest interesting brains, as insects can perform a range of tasks (flying, smelling, …
Business Trend – Until recently, if you wanted to make an impact, the only option was to sign on with an organization. It simply wasn’t possible to raise capital, manufacture a product, or organize a …
Technology Trend – Driverless vehicles will safely wiz through intersections at the full speed limit, according to researchers from Virginia Tech Transportation Research. Autonomous vehicles will turn themselves over to an automated intersection controller, with …
Global Trend – In what is being billed as the largest “mountain-moving project” in Chinese history, oneof China’s biggest construction firms will spend £2.2bn to flatten 700 mountains levelling the area Lanzhou, allowing developers to …
Technology Trend – It may sound like something out of a sci-fi film, but reading text messages off contact lens in the eyes could soon be a reality – bringing a whole new meaning to …
Environmental Trend – Research scientists and others studying the Earth’s climate say global warming could be linked to a signature weather pattern seen around the world that possibly contributed to this year’s drought and the …
Technology Trend – The rise of the machines has begun: Steve Sande’s household fan is now self-aware. Sande, a Colorado-based tech writer, had noticed that his cat, Ruby, was suffering on hot summer days. His …
Future Trend – It takes Ford three years to bring a car to market. They constantly have to be ahead of the curve, and even have a department in the company focused on trends and …
Social Trend – The creator of the “A Day in the Life of America” photo book and other “day in the life” books says this latest project was the toughest so far. How do you …
Future Trend – What does the immediate future hold? Here how the IEEE Computer Society sees the computing world unfolding in 2013. … Read more
Business Trend – The holiday season is proving to be a bitter time for many in the journalism industry, as a wave of layoffs and buyouts hits publication after publication. In just the past week, …
Social Trend – When a car is involved in a crash or when its airbags deploy, inputs from the vehicle’s sensors during the 5 to 10 seconds before impact are automatically preserved. That is usually …
Business Trend -Service companies have been sending jobs abroad in large numbers the past decade to cut labor costs — a trend that accelerated in the recession and is expected to continue the next few …
Business Trend – A website that trades in a type of virtual currency called Bitcoin has been given the right to operate as a bank in France. Bitcoin-Central – one of many exchanges that allow …
Business Trend – Financial giant Barclays is considering an end to food speculation, a controversial practice linked to sudden, dangerous spikes in global food prices. Rich Ricci, head of Barclays’ corporate and investment banking arm, …
Technology Trend – The promise of hypersonic flight sending us halfway around the world in a matter of hours is being bandied about again, this time by a British company that declares, with all due …
Social Trend – Despite their diversity, U.S. nonprofits are in basic agreement that seven core values—being productive, effective, enriching, empowering, responsive, reliable, and caring—set the nonprofit sector apart from government and for-profit businesses, according to …
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David Forrest is a Canadian writer and strategy consultant. His Integral Strategy™ process has been widely used to increase collaboration in communities, build social capital, deepen commitment to action, and develop creative strategies to deal with complex challenges.
Integral Strategy™ has been applied by businesses, governments, and non-profit organizations to systemic challenges in healthcare, energy, environment, resource management, scientific research, innovation, education, transportation, economic development, community development and community service.
David advises organizations on emerging trends. He uses the term Enterprise Ecology™ to describe how ecological principles can be applied to competition, innovation, and strategy in business.
David is a member of the Professional Writers Association of Canada, the World Future Society, and other futures organizations. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Institute for Science, Society and Policy at the University of Ottawa. He publishes Innovation Watch, and writes its biweekly trend newsletter, which is emailed to readers in more than 40 countries.
The goal of strategy is to choose the course of action that ensures success and survival. In a world of rapidly accelerating change, today's strategy quickly becomes obsolete. We must be ever more aware of the future we are planning for, since that future will quickly be upon us. Strategic foresight has a serious intent: to improve our understanding of the range of possible futures, and to use that understanding to inform action.
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