Insights February 14th, 2023
Nikola Danaylov – aka Socrates – interviewed Nikolas Badminton about his new book Facing Our Futures: How Foresight, Futures Design and Strategy Creates Prosperity and Growth. Nikola has interviewed anyone worth knowing in the futures world on his Singularity Weblog.
During this 90-min conversation Nikola and Nikolas cover a variety of exciting topics such as being a futurist and a hope engineer; the benefits of riding a bicycle; the poverty of our imagination; his 50 Life Lessons from a 50-Year-Old Futurist; futurism vs. foresight; fellow futurist Karl Schroeder, the California Ideology and the ‘singular’ future; the greatest challenges humanity is facing today; his book Facing our Futures; the positive-dystopian framework and stretching our horizons; backcasting, futures consciousness and why imagination is a superpower.
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Nikolas Badminton is the Chief Futurist at futurist.com. He’s a world-renowned futurist speaker, consultant, author media producer, and executive advisor that has spoken to, and worked with, over 300 of the world’s most impactful organizations and governments. He helps shape the visions that shape impactful organizations, trillion-dollar companies, progressive governments, and 200+ billion dollar investment funds.
You can order ‘Facing Our Futures: How Foresight, Futures Design and Strategy Creates Prosperity and Growth’ at Amazon, Bloomsbury, Barnes and Noble and other fine purveyors of books. We’s also love it if you considered pre-ordering from your local, independent book store as well.
Please contact futurist speaker and consultant Nikolas Badminton to discuss your engagement or event.
