Forecast
Forecast is defined as: the process of estimation in unknown situations. Many aspects of our daily lives need to be forecast, from how much milk is left in the fridge to how will this decision impact my financial future? Most of the forecasts are shallow and are not for very distant into the future. These posts are an attempt to look a bit further at the possibilities and see how they may be played out, what would need to happen and how socially and technologically it could be done.
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Blind Men and the Elephant
Being like the blind men watching big tech companies develop in public isn’t enough. You need to be able to connect all those dots and that’s not easy.
Sawtooth and Sine Wave
We tend to think of singular events that radically change the direction. In reality, it is more likely a slow turning of the tide and a faster snowball effect.
Availability Forecast
Sometimes crazy ideas lead of a day of design challenges. We took our internal availability levels and visualised them as if it were a weather report.
Spimes: A Happy Birthday Story
Over a year ago, Mike Stenhouse and I wrote and pitched a small piece of design fiction around Spimes. We anchored the discussion around one man’s birthday. In the year since, we’ve flushed out the story a bit more, but it is also amazing how many of these gadgets now exist.
02011 Predictions
If we look back at the last 2,000 years of history, we can see some over-arching trends, themes through-out and a look at what is old is new again. This is a re-print of a translated article from Issue 148 of Bit magazine in Portugal from January, 2011.