What might the impact of non-health historical strands be on on health by 2023?

In this episode I argue that we need clear terminology for thinking about the future. I use McAfee & Brynjolfsson's Machine, Platform, Crowd to tease out the difference between prediction and thinking about the future. Clarifying our terms could actually help (which I will attempt in a future episode).

Weaving the 24 other strands into the food strand. What might food look like in 2023?

My choice of 25 categories that are useful for thinking about the future. What would you choose?

Catastrophes
Economic cycles
Demographics
Politics
Media: hardware
Media: business models
Media: gaming
Education
Institutions
Individuals
Food
Health
Work
Transportation
Supply chains including retail
Finance
Climate change
Material inputs
Energy
IT infrastructure
AI (decision science)
Virtuality
Accounting and ledgers
Funding of innovation
The periphery

The last of 5 episodes on history with a view to picking 25 appropriate categories for thinking about the future. Tech, bodies, hospitals, business models, workflows, regulation. Erratum: Machinery had been ALIEN to hospitals in 1896 - I said akin :(

Continuing to examine history as a heuristic for choosing 25 good categories for thinking about the future, we focus on tech driving industrial and political change, in turn driving educational change - as examples of interweaving strands.

In which we examine the history of electricity from the perspective of what one might want to pay attention to when thinking about the future. In particular, we discuss platforms and the seeming momentum that some technologies have, but also the perspective of the consumer, where the emphasis may not be on the virtues of the product itself but rather how it can improve particular customers' social relations.

Another look at the history of the internet with a focus on platforms as a heuristic for thinking about the future.

This episode is the first of two on the history of the internet. The aim is to think about the main strands of this history as a heuristic for thinking about the future.

Explores the point of the podcast and why it will number about 30 episodes of some 8 minutes each. It also gives an outline of future episodes:
- appr. 5 episodes on 3 histories of technologies (internet, electricity, x-rays)
- appr.3 episodes for picking the main areas that we need to keep an eye on for developing a future (eg. government, media, finance, food and health)
- appr. 3 episodes for "predicting" 2023
- appr. 3 episodes for "predicting" 2026
- appr. 3 episodes for "predicting" 2030
- appr. 10 episodes for writing stories that describe the future, most likely 10 obituaries written from the perspective of 2030
- appr. 5 episodes for discussing meta-questions - these will likely be sprinkled throughout the podcast