a good futurist spends a lot of time trying to decipher the present and to try to see it through the mask of present-day biases.

I sometimes think of “seeing the present” as trying on alien eyes; looking at the world as if I were an alien from another planet.

Trying to see beyond the immediate cycles of news is a challenge, because rather than being... See more

making long-term predictions about the future which are grounded in reality will often lead you to be wrong.