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Saudi Arabia as a high-tech manufacturing hub?
When the Saudis Disrupt Bangladesh A Possible (Plausible?) Article from 20 March 2037 1. Beginning of the Saudi Disruption Back in early February, a World Bank report marked 2036 as the year Saudi...
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Indonesia’s First Data Science Bootcamp
Hello Everyone! I’m proudly announcing that after over six months of work at Ventura Labs, we have launched the first data science bootcamp in Indonesia. With out fantastic partners at Data Science...
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Studying the Future(s) as Strategy
We’re all “Moving at the Speed of Change” right? From the World Economic Forum to the halls of Silicon Valley, business leaders are required to issue platitudes about “moving at the speed of change” or...
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The End to Economic Growth?
Asia and the End of Economic Growth Not too long ago, the world witnessed the meteoric raise of Singapore, South Korea, and later China as they propelled their economics on the engine of export-based...
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Robots take 60,000 jobs in China, drive taxis in Singapore and more…
Field Notes on the Automation Trap (25 May 2016) These are my personal notes on happenings, news, signals related to my research on automation and alternative means on economic development. See The...
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Small Robot Invasion of Farms, Malls, Walmart
Field Notes on the Automation Trap (11 June 2016) These are my personal notes on happenings, news, signals related to my research on automation and alternative means on economic development. See The...
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Geneva Convention for War Robots? Blockchains for central banks?
Field Notes on the Automation Trap (22 June 2016) Your weekly notes on happenings, news, signals related to automation and alternative means on economic development. See more at The Automation Trap....
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Should European Robots pay Social Security Tax?
Field Notes on the Automation Trap (2nd of July) Your weekly notes on happenings, news, signals related to automation and alternative means on economic development. See more at The Automation Trap....
View ArticleSalim Ismail: Our Democracy is Collapsing
New Models is a series of posts dedicated for looking for new models for organisations, specifically new models of governance and society. At a recent interview in Denmark, Salim Ismail of Singularity...
View ArticleSingapore Self-Driving Taxis to Economic Stagnation
Field Notes on the Automation Trap (06 August 2016) Your weekly notes on happenings, news, signals related to automation and alternative means on economic development. See more at The Automation Trap....
View ArticleThe Future According to Women
MISC, a foresight magazine from Canada by Idea Couture, recently put together a special summer feature called “The Future According to Women.” MISC brought together over 40 women from diverse...
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The New Social Contract: The People, The State, the MetaStates
Revisiting Rousseau The Enlightenment concept of the social contract has been the foundation for modern democracy and government for over 250 years. But how might we revisit and reimagine this social...
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Can Democracy Survive Facebook?
Can democracy survive the 21st Century? “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:32 Is the truth knowable? And if we find the truth, will it set us free? Democracy...
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Silicon Valley: Challenging the Geographical Monopoly
Can Redistributing Silicon Valley Fight Inequality? Just about every American know the Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Most Americans don’t know, however, was the name of the march of...
View ArticleAn Entrance Exam from 2050: How would you answer?
Aaron Maniam, a poet, futurist and civil servant, has stumbled upon an admissions exam from the year 2050. It’s for those applying to study post-globalisation or transnational dialectic studies. He’s...
View ArticleUN Report: Robots Will Replace Two-Thirds of Workers in the Developing World
It’s been one year since I published the “Saudi Disruption”, a 2036 scenario in which a Saudi investment in automated manufacturing displaces over four million Bangladeshi workers in the textile...
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Foresight & Organisational Design
What excites me about foresight is the ability to create a space to explore, to create a strategic conversation beyond the day to day hustles of operations. But what is that exploration without...
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Limits to Democracy, A Quick Post
A Society & Governance Mismatch The thirty years, we can all agree society has changed, but what about our governance? Businesses from Amazon, Facebook to Uber, to organisations like ISIS and...
View Article2017 Reading List aka Unbounded Ambitions
Daniel’s 2017 Reading List In 2016, I’ve learned that doing graduate program and pursuing an aggressive extracurricular reading list is an overly ambitious task. Luckily, it’s 2017 and I am still going...
View ArticleEconomic Models: Zero Marginal Cost Society
This is part of my ongoing research on new economic models. No jobs? No ownership? No capitalism? No problem. For Jeremy Rifkin, a post-jobs and post-ownership future will propel humanity to a next...
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