“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”–variously attributed The above quote dates from the late 19th century. A 21st century version might well be, “everybody talks about disruption, but can anybody do anything about it?” One person who has strong ideas on what to do about it is Roger Spitz. He is a former M&A inves…

“To have another language is to possess a second soul.”–Charlemagne This podcast originally aired in March of 2022 “To have another language is to possess a second soul.”–Charlemagne I wouldn’t call future fluency a a new jargon. I would call it a unique and practical way of looking at foresight–of integrating it into the culture of an organization…

“The internet gave us access to everything; but it also gave everything access to us.””–James Veitch Our daily lives are overloaded with information from more sources than anyone can can count. Your smart phone is substantially more connected to the world of information than the network TV newsroom of just a couple of decades ago. How does one make…

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”–Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlett) What is the fodder that feeds generative AI? Of course, there is massive software programming, but creating useful output requires data. Tons of data. Anne Boysen has a masters in strategic foresight from the University of Houston an…

“Anyone who thinks there is safety in numbers hasn’t looked at the stock market.”–Irene Peter Nowhere do we hear more about artificial intelligence than in the world of investing. Nvidia and other major AI-related stocks are in the news every day. Is AI over-bought and due for a correction? Perhaps at the peak of Gartner Hype Cycle? Beyond that, ho…

“I did not come to NASA to make history.”–Sally Ride “Going to Mars would make NASA great again.”–John Grunsfeld http://www.andertoons.com This episode was originally aired in October of 2019. The inaugural ASCEND conference was cancelled due to Covid-19. It was held virtually in 2021 and live in 2022. The 2023 event will be held in October. Signif…

“To have another language is to possess a second soul.”–Charlemagne “To have another language is to possess a second soul.”–Charlemagne I wouldn’t call future fluency a a new jargon. I would call it a unique and practical way of looking at foresight–of integrating it into the culture of an organization. Dmitriy Zakharov is a fellow alumnus of the U…

“So I submit to my colleagues here today that hydrogen is not as far away as we think it is.“–Bob Inglis In February of 2017, Seeking Delphi featured Infinity Fuel Cell and Hydrogen, Inc. founder and CEO Bill Smith, in an episode entitled What Ever Happend to Fuel Cells. Not much was happening in early 2017. The market for hydrogen fuel cells, and …

“Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.”- Peter Diamandis Peter Diamandis might be right, but asteroid mining is probably not imminent–at least not in the way that lunar mining is. With both the NASA and the Chinese National Space Agency having designs on establishing permanent lunar bases wit…

“We have created science and technology to extend our life, but we haven’t created life we want to extend.”–Sergey Young, Seeking Delphi episode #55, explaining why he believes more people do not support radical life extension. http://www.andertoons.com Few individuals have done more, from an advocacy standpoint, to promote breakthroughs in human l…