futuremastery blog

How will we live tomorrow?

It has always been the dream of thinkers: to be able to foresee human life in the decades to come.
Returning to the predictions of the futurists of previous centuries and comparing them to what happened, we have to recognize that this is often a perilous exercise...

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Will the world go bust or recover in 2023?

As the adage says, futurists exist to help astrologers look serious…

At each year’s eve, analysts and institutions compete to share their predictions for the coming times. Quite a perilous exercise that often results in mixed...

Troubled times are periods of anguish and despair. Sometimes, they are also periods of miracles.  A moment when the pressure of circumstances helps us to achieve things that we could not have imagined doing in normal times. When the impossible suddenly becomes possible

Indeed, we live in...

Threats of epidemics, climate changes, energy crisis, economic recession, war: when we look at TV news shows each day, headlines are far from reassuring....

And, as we highlighted in previous posts, the prospects are not more reassuring. As if we were collectively heading to catastrophes. On the...

Humanity has had a dream for millennia: what if we could master our fate? What if we could achieve the ambition of magicians, prophets, and scientists to be able to predict the future and take control of our destiny?

With all the unanswered questions arising. What would remain of free will?...

There has been a hot debate for millennia: Is there some predestination in history? Are civilizations heading in a foreseeable direction? Or is history “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing,” as stated in Macbeth?

Beyond the generational cycles...

‘Those who forget the past are condemned to revive it. Again, and again’. In our times of accelerated change, rarely has this old saying been more challenged. Is this old wisdom still valid in the era of artificial intelligence, the metaverse, and quantum computing? Or are we on the...

We must recognize it: the world around us is on the edge of chaos. We see it every day on the news about the war in Ukraine, inflation, the energy crisis, and the upcoming resurgence of the Covid pandemic. Geopolitical, social, and economic tensions flourish everywhere. Old nations tremble and...

We all know business or human life is a spark of light in the dark silence of the universe. A brief journey from rise to fall that we will endure just as thousands of corporate and human generations have endured it before us. This is what we have known for generations.

But isn’t it...

A deep economic crisis, a worldwide pandemic, and the start of a new world war in Ukraine: The last few years have seen dramatic events unfold. And even darker times seem to await us, with many investment firms now expecting an upcoming financial "hurricane". At the dawn of a worrying...