It’s New Year’s time again and along with resolutions, goal setting, and bowl games, it’s time for experts to make forecasts. The bad news is that most of them will be wrong. The good news, at least for the forecasters, is that no one will ever check back to see how they did. Nevertheless, you will see » Read More
Category: future
Looking ahead at 2016
“The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.” Peter Drucker said that over forty years ago. That hasn’t stopped prognosticators of all kinds from trying their hand at describing just how the future will be different. Every year at this time articles foretelling the future » Read More
If you can’t predict the future, what then?
This is the fiftieth anniversary of the 1964 New York World’s Fair. What I loved most about it were the pavilions that offered views of the future. Most of those predictions turned out to be wrong. We humans are not very good at predicting the future. Sometimes we leave things out. Many early Twentieth Century » Read More
The Net and Grocery Shopping
I felt like I’d stepped into a timewarp. First, I saw the Fortune article: “Next up for disruption: the grocery business.” Then it was “Webvan’s Founder is Back And He’s Building A Grocery Delivery Business” on Re/code. I remembered the time when Webvan was going to transform the grocery » Read More
Some Things We Know about the Future of Big Data
“Big Data” is one of today’s hot topics. If you’re having a conference, you want something about “Big Data” on the agenda. If you’re concerned about the future of your business, that term is bouncing around in your brain. Prepare to be surprised. We really don’t know what » Read More