DECODING TOMORROW: FUTURISM AND FORESIGHTS TODAY

FORESIGHTS AND IDEAS THAT EXPAND MINDS AND INSPIRE A CHANGE OF HEART.

21 Dec 2020

2nd Renaissance/Christian Westerlind Wigström on Automation & Empathy

How can automation enhance human creativity, and why is empathy one of the key human skills we have to nurture in an age of machines? How does a career as a speechwriter to a Lord at the House of Lords in the UK, agribusiness ventures ...

23 Nov 2020

2nd Renaissance Podcast - The Future of Creativity with Vince Frost

In the 2nd Renaissance podcast we decode the rebirth of human creativity in a technology-driven world. In 2020, the future arrived sooner than we thought. For some it arrived a little too soon. The year has been a massive disruption ...

20 Oct 2020

Re-Emergence: the 2nd Renaissance of Human Creativity

If digital disruption was the dress rehearsal for your business model’s transformation, COVID19 became the burning platform. By now, we know that this virus has wreaked havoc on lives and livelihoods. None of us, professional, ...

08 Oct 2020

Diversity Drives Disruptive Innovation

Diversity diversifies your brand's cognitive portfolio, and the numbers show us that diversity has a statistically significant relationship with innovation output. If your workforce is not diverse, you are paying a penalty as a ...

14 Sep 2020

Future Thinking: is the creative future more right-brained than left-brained?

As we navigate an uncertain future and contemplate what types of skills will be in demand in tomorrow's workforce, one useful scenario planning tool is the psychometric measurement Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument. It helps us to ...

03 Sep 2020

Beyond the Virus: Scenario Planning Animation by Futurist

One of my favourite thought experiments in times of uncertainty is to deliberately imagine that I am a science fiction author. Well, a science fiction author for business at least. Science fiction authors design plausible narrative ...

22 Aug 2020

Beyond the Virus: The Future of Humanity and the Rise of Creativity

Machines have been learning while we have been hibernating. AI and robotic developments didn't stand still. But did we as humans stop our development, and do we think that we are going back to the old normal? COVID19 has led to a ...