The previous post introduced the ESPELETIA futurism tool. Here this is combined with key emergent and future technology drivers to deliver The Futurology Grid, a useful framework for practical futurism.
The nine dimensions of the ESPELETIA tool are the coloured column headings in the table below.
The details of each are as follows:
Continue readingOver the decades, we’ve seen PEST extended to PESTLE to STEEPLED, but have we now got all the angles covered for practical 21st century futurism? Perhaps not.
We’ve used the STEEPLED model before several times on this site, with some success. It’s undoubtedly a useful tool. But it’s not perfect: it’s time to recognise its limitations and introduce something new.
Continue readingWell it’s been a while but the blog’s back on course! Thing is, I thought I’d retired but it looks as though I haven’t – for now at least!
So, new posts and articles on the way. Maybe the book serialisation could even begin again at some point?
Watch this space …
A loving tribute, a thank-you and a card trick: all from the heart.
My Dad died earlier this month: I don’t yet know when or if the tears will stop. He was a big man and he leaves a big hole, but filled with happy memories. I can’t exactly say I modelled myself on Dad: that was a bit beyond me. But I did follow his example where I could in the basics of honesty and hard work: painfully slowly at times perhaps but I hope I got there in the end. We were different, but each proud of the other I think.
Of course, I now wish I’d managed to spend more time with him in the last few years. The past year alone, he suffered strokes, heart problems, survived sepsis, countless other infections, pneumonia, a collapsed lung and saw off Covid-19. But the last illness was just one too many although, as always, he fought it to the end. He was just short of 90 and lived a full and worthwhile life: you can’t ask for anything more.
This isn’t the place for a poetic eulogy. But, even just in an academic sense, the older I’ve got, the more I’ve realised just how much I owe to Dad. I was never really a gifted student, despite what people might think. And I proved many times over the years the ease with which I could get into trouble of one sort or another. If it hadn’t been for the start that Dad gave me, I’d be in a very different place now.
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