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I'm a futurist based in Silicon Valley, California, an Associate Fellow at Oxford University's Saïd Business School, and a visiting scholar in Stanford's HPST program. I spent the spring of 2011 at Microsoft Research Cambridge, working in the Socio-Digital Systems group on contemplative computing. I wanted to figure out how to design information technologies and user experiences that promote concentration and deep focused thinking, rather than distract you, fracture your attention, and make you feel dumb. You can read about it on my Contemplative Computing Blog.
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PUBLISHED IN 2011
A Banquet of Consequences: Living in the “Nobody-Could-Have-Predicted” Era.
Using Futures 2.0 to Manage Intractable Futures: The Case of Weight Loss
Thinking Big: Large Media, Creativity, and Collaboration [pdf]
Citizen Satellites (with Bob Twiggs)
PUBLISHED IN 2010
Feasting at the Banquet of Consequence
Futures 2.0: Rethinking the Discipline
Paper Spaces: Visualizing the Future
Social Scanning: Improving Futures Through Web 2.0
Global Scenarios: Their Current State and Future
PUBLISHED IN 2009
Future Knowledge Ecosystems: The Next 20 Years of Technology-Led Economic Development
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