Robert Hickson • Mar 03, 2019 •
“One-way thinking on a two-way street” is a line from Ogden Nash’s poem “Oh, Stop Being Thankful All Over The Place.” I see it as particularly apt for a lot of the futures speculation and prediction going on all over the place. There is a rapidly expanding market of “futures pundits” who confidently predict what is going to come to … Read More
Robert Hickson • May 21, 2017 •
Futurists, on the whole, tend to be optimistic. On the other hand, Frank Bures wondered last year why many people (at least in the “West”) tend to gravitate to dystopian futures in novels and films. Is this a challenge for futurists? Bures’ thoughts have now been turned into a short video: The “good” times are here … Read More
Michael Edmonds • Jun 10, 2012 •
The Pounamu game run last week alongside the Transit of Venus Forum got me thinking about the future of science and education in New Zealand so I offer the following as a series of snapshots of education in New Zealand in 2020. Snapshot 1 – Jenny age 16 Jenny is doing work for school on her computer. She has … Read More