What is futures thinking all about? The popular, the scientific, and the practical answer
Here are the answers that people look for, then they ask me what futures thinking is: A popular, a scientific, and a practical answer.
Entries by Erik Korsvik Østergaard
3 ways to use Futures Thinking in your daily work
Let’s look at three concrete ways to use some of the many mechanisms and tools from futures thinking in your daily work.
We seem to trust AI-Generated faces more than the real thing
Deep fakes. AI-generated videos of leaders, sharing messages. Avatars that guide you and help you. Lots of bits of technology are pointing towards a possible future where the augmented reality or even the metaverse will play a role in communication, storytelling, and marketing (internally as well as externally).
Getting real-time data on emotions at work
Imagine being at a meeting. It’s you and your colleague, discussing your proposal for some marketing activities. You can sense that your colleague is uncomfortable. In the future you can get real-time data on emotions, so that we can act on them with care (or exploit them to our own benefit, if we’re that kind of person).
Total Experience
Total experience (TX) combines multiexperience, customer experience, employee experience, and user experience. Today and in the future customer and employee interactions are increasingly taking place via multiple channels.
Sabbaticals are for grownups too
Mid-career sabbaticals have tripled over the past four years, according to data from the Society of Human Resource Management.
The humanoids are coming
According to Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, the humanoid robot might become the company’s most important product.
Are online conferences helping us save the planet?
This Cornell-led study in the Dec. 16 issue of Nature Communications clearly documents that virtual conferences are good for the planet. During the COVID-19 pandemic we have learned to have online meetings, working online, collaborating online, and attending online conferences. And it has a positive impact on the climate, as the study documents.
Virtual Presence is going to be one of the top skills in demand the coming five years
The future will be hybrid. This means that we’ll see in job ads will see an increase in searching for skills such as ‘Virtual Presence’ and ‘Working Remotely’. In fact, 62% of the asked respondents in a new report say they believe an increase in demand for ‘Virtual Presence’ over the next five years.
Robot waiters create new jobs for disabled robot pilots
Here is a new – and price winning – example of how technology can create possibilities: “Tokyo-based DAWN, or Diverse Avatar Working Network, is a cafe staffed by robots operated remotely by people with severe physical disabilities like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.”