Monthly: August, 2011
Empathy is the new weapon
Appetiser By Suzette Frovin
If you want to win a war, you must know your enemy as well as your neighbour. This is why American soldiers now get help from anthropologists to understand the culture in the countries they are sent to. American professor James Der Derain examines what this means for the war, the soldiers [...]
G2 in a dead end
“The people of both USA and China see their governments, the two most powerful in the world, in desperate nonstop action and desperate paralysis respectively, allocating their resources in ways that create no real value for humanity.” Janet Carmosky is an American who has lived and done business in China f or a long time. Here, she presents [...]
Future capitalism
By Johan Peter Paludan
The explanations for the financial crisis are many, and the queue at the washstand is long. Still, let us not dwell on the past; it is much more meaningful to focus on future capitalism. For that, I see three scenarios.
The first scenario is that the capitalist system keeps eroding, and that is [...]
What’s up Google, New York?
Interview by Thomas Geuken
With its search engine, Google, Inc. has revolutionised the way we look for and organise data. But this story isn’t over yet. SCENARIO visited the Google’s beta lab in New York to get a sneak peek of coming breakthroughs from the company. Read about how you will one day be able to speak [...]
Economic growth
By Anders Bjerre
Megatrends are general development tendencies that influence all parts of society, and which have major impact and comprehensive scope. While a large part of futures studies otherwise involves working with uncertainties, megatrends are relatively predictable driving forces that will have an impact on any scenario imaginable. In other words, megatrends constitute what we already know about [...]
Associated blogger: Steampunk
I have always been drawn to the obscure, the arcane and the inconspicuous. The things we tend to forget, or overlook, when taking stock of the past. Small nuggets of history lost between more prominent events, inventions that failed, or times and people remembered now only by a few.
We commemorate [...]
Associated blogger: Quote a Gentleman
Dear Ladies & Gentlemen,
This blog Quote a Gentleman’s key aim is to draw insight and inspiration from the world around us, from people we have nothing in common with, from the different and the diverse, from the patterns that we recognize, and the abnormalities that disrupt and confound them.
By nature I’m interested with the new, [...]
