The future is already with us - just unevenly distributed

Ray Poynter

This paper adopts its title from William Gibson's quote and provides an analysis of what lies just beyond the horizon.

The Future Is Already With Us Just Unevenly Distributed

Ray PoynterThe Future Place

Introduction

The transformational drivers that will impact society over the next five to ten years are already present, often in dispersed and nascent forms. The main problem with acting on these factors is that most of us are prisoners of our conventional assumptions about how things are. In his book The Art of the Long View, Peter Schwartz describes the problem that most of us face when we take a deterministic view.'They take it for granted that some things just can't or...

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