by Suzanne Whitby | 3 weeks ago | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
Reddit, for all it’s faults, is a fabulous place for futurers to “lurk”. One finds signals and provocations galore! Earlier this week on a thread about urban planning (yes, urban futures is one of my focal points), someone described how switching to an electric...
by Suzanne Whitby | 2 months ago | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
I live in a region where the glaciers are receding. Global heating means that the future of glaciers in Tirol looks bleak, with a new study from ETH Zurich suggesting that by 2100, only about 3% of the glacier mass from 2017 may remain due to climate change. The...
by Suzanne Whitby | 2 months ago | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
If anyone missed this in The Guardian yesterday, futures & trends firm Citrini Research posted a futures scenario on Substack that resulted in shares in Uber, Mastercard and American Express falling. A SCENARIO. Of a possible – not predicted, possible...
by Suzanne Whitby | 3 months ago | Communication
Do you ever have “Blonde Moments”? In Jacinda Ardern’s book, “A different kind of power”, she tells a story. Pregnant, in power, and balancing crazy hormone changes and the exhaustion of carrying a baby and running a country, she recounts...
by Suzanne Whitby | 3 months ago | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
Earlier this year, Futurism reported that OpenAI has launched a health-focused version of ChatGPT that can ingest full medical records. When accessed, it issues an explicit warning it shouldn’t be used for diagnosis or treatment. This raises some interesting questions...
