Dr Tom Lombardo is the Executive Director of the Center for Future Consciousness in the United States, the Managing Editor of the online journal Wisdom and the Future, and Professor Emeritus and retired Faculty Chair of Psychology, Philosophy, and the Future at Rio Salado College, Tempe, Arizona.

He is an Executive Board member and Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation, a special honour given to members who have made a globally recognised original contribution to futures studies.

He has published eight books and over fifty articles, and given an equal number of national and international presentations covering such topics as the future of education; utopian and dystopian futurist thought; wisdom and character virtues; the evolution of science fiction; the future evolution of consciousness; contemporary theories of the future; and the heightening of future consciousness.

I spent some time chatting to Dr Lombardo about how people can think more creatively about the future.