Insights May 26th, 2021
Speculative Dystopias is a keynote on seeing terrible and dystopian futures today to help avoid them tomorrow presented by Nikolas Badminton prepared and delivered for the 2021 KMikeyM Shareholder Conference.
Nikolas has just signed a book deal to write and release an essential guide to foresight and using dystopian planning – looking at future horizons at what might become from developing societal and capitalist roadmaps focused on short-termism (quart-by-quarter revenue grinding), technological colonization, conflict (civil, war and otherwise), and geopolitics in struggle due to nationalism and ego.
Speculative Dystopias
The future is unwritten and we all hope for goodness in what transpires. However, short-termism leads to difficult situations and has resulted in a constant state of what we futurists call ‘collapse’. Nikolas Badminton has spent years looking into the darkness to drive discussions on what may be wrought by terrible futures caused by our (read industry and government’s) limited and selfish thinking.
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About Nikolas Badminton
Nikolas Badminton is the Chief Futurist at futurist.com and a world-renowned futurist speaker, consultant, researcher, and media producer. He helps trillion-dollar companies, progressive governments and the media shift their mindset from “what is” to “WHAT IF…” The result is empowered employees, new innovative products and incredible growth that leads to more revenues and a more resilient future.
Nikolas advised Robert Downey Jr.’s team for the ‘Age of A.I.’ documentary series, starred in ‘SMART DRUGS – a Futurist’s journey into biohacking’, and features on CTV, Global News, Sirius XM regularly. His mind-expanding research and opinion can be found on BBC, VICE, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Techcrunch, Business Insider, Huffington Post, Forbes, Sputnik and Venturebeat.
Nikolas provides the opening chapter – ‘Start with Dystopia’ in a new book – ‘The Future Starts Now: Expert Insights into the Future of Business, Technology and Society’ for Bloomsbury. He is currently researching and writing a new book that equips executives and world leaders with insights and foresight tools to imagine disruption, strengthen strategic planning, and see unforeseen risks.Nikolas is a Fellow of The Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce – The RSA. The organization has been at the forefront of significant social impact for over 260 years with notable past fellows including Charles Dickens, Benjamin Franklin, Stephen Hawking, Nelson Mandela, and Tim Berners-Lee.
