Grass Fires, Diverted Flights and Infrastructure For The Future
Something unusual happened to me last week. On a flight to London, my flight was suddenly diverted to Manchester. There was a grass fire next to one of the runways, causing chaos at the
Foresight, from the edges in
Choice in complexity
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Disease forecasting and epidemic foresight
The last couple of decades have made disease forecasting — being able to predict numerically how epidemics evolve, cases grow and
AI and foresight : emerging groundrules
The use of artificial intelligence in strategic foresight research is still a contentious issue. There are those who feel that
You Can't Plan for the Future in Ideal Conditions. What Tuchel and Bellingham Can Teach Us About Foresight
Certainly in England (and I'm guessing in Spain, France and Argentina as well) World Cup fever is reaching
The infrastructures of infatuation
Demographics for the West look dismal: many countries are quietly disappearing, and were it not for immigration, automation would be
The slow learning of big things
This article in the South China Morning Post made me think about rhythms, and how we deal with them in
Heat
Climate change is an often-cited key driver of change, and one of the key ways in which it will