Author: Fast Future Publishing

Will AI Eat the World? An Interview with Calum Chace

Calum Chace is a highly acclaimed author, international authority on artificial intelligence (AI), and an experienced business executive. Artificial intelligence is already here, and in this short interview, Calum touches on the potential implications and threats humanity may face as AI evolves, and how we, as humans, should pay attention to trends and developments in Read More …

Strategic Plan Need a Pick-Me-Up? - Interview with Maree Conway

Maree Conway is an Australian-based foresight and strategy consultant, the founder of Thinking Futures, and author of the chapter “Foresight Infused Strategy - Using Foresight to Create Generative Thinking” in The Future of Business. Below she discusses her chapter, her work, and what change she would make to ensure a better future for us all. Read More …

Space-Based Solar Power - What’s Holding Us Back? An Interview with Devin Daniels

Devin Daniels is a scholar, physicist, futurist, and entrepreneur. In this small interview, he discusses his contribution to The Future of Business, his interests, and his future hopes for humanity. What is the focus of your chapter in The Future of Business? For The Future of Business, I wrote the chapter “Space-Based Solar Power and Read More …

Blockchain, the Future of the Internet, Mobile 2030: She Covers It All - Interviewing Alexandra Whittington

Alexandra Whittington coauthored three chapters in The Future of Business: “The Future of the Internet”, “Mobile 2030: Scenarios for the Role of Mobile Technology in Society”, and “The Decentralization of Everything? Exploring the Business of the Blockchain”. In addition to her prolific writing, she’s also managed to record all of these chapters for The Future of Business Read More …

Let’s talk about why we need Strategic Foresight with Dr. Peter Bishop

Dr. Peter Bishop originally taught for and then took over as the chair for the Futures Studies (now Foresight) Graduate program at the University of Houston. I’d hazard a guess and say that more US futurists (including this one) have passed through his classrooms and certificate programs than any other professor out there today. His dedication to teaching Read More …

Shaping the Future of Journalism by Puruesh Chaudhary

Social media, citizen journalism, AI-based reporting systems, big data, auto-generated news articles - with so much disruption happening, what will the future of journalism be? How will it survive all of these drastic shifts? Puruesh Chaudhary tackles these very questions in her chapter, “Shaping the Future of Journalism” and offers up foresight journalism as a potential Read More …

“Body-Machine Convergence” with Dr. Ian Pearson

From video tattoos and electronic makeup, to subdural smart drug delivery systems, brain replication and even electronic immortality, Dr. Ian Pearson’s chapter “Body-Machine Convergence” covers the spectrum of physically combining man and machine in the future, and touches on the potential emotional and social ramifications such technologies could entail. In the following short interview, Dr. Read More …