When someone asks me what I do, and I tell them that I’m a futurist, the first thing they ask “what is a futurist?” The short answer that I give is “I use current scientific research in emerging technologies to imagine how we wi…

ForbesConscious Capitalism: Can Empathy Change The World?ForbesIn the late 19th century, a concept called the Progressive Movement crept through the vineworks of American business thinking.See it on Scoop.it, via Radical Compassion

In the developed world, we are used to the idea that we created the model of industrial and economic progress which other countries must follow. Many of our big ideas about development rest on the assumption that the West cracked the formula for econom…

It’s very easy to fall into the happiness trap of false choices — of thinking you can either do X or Y, and those are the only two choices you have.See it on Scoop.it, via Radical Compassion