As part of a Pandemic Home project, we have developed three scenarios around three fictional patient personas. The scenarios have been turned into audio dialogues, simulating the dramatic conversation between individuals in distress at their home and mental health hotline responders. Listen here: Aging in Place in times of COVID (The Pandemic Home Hotline) https://open.spotify.com/episode/3aRg5RjakNPwwOO8huNuIj?si=ZhfpO3NESLS_NOrRflhhNA “MaryContinueContinue reading “The Pandemic Home Hotline: Aging in Place in times of COVID”
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The Pandemic Home Hotline: Contamination Anxiety
As part of a Pandemic Home project, we have developed three scenarios around three fictional patient personas. The scenarios have been turned into audio dialogues, simulating the dramatic conversation between individuals in distress at their home and mental health hotline responders. Listen here: Contamination Anxiety (The Pandemic Home Hotline) https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ZBcm1prxTmTHtC08LIcWJ?si=AyGRmchIQDeLlS9ufOcobA The Pandemic Home Hotline -ContinueContinue reading “The Pandemic Home Hotline: Contamination Anxiety”
Speculative Optimism: Being a Centenarian
Just sharing one of my Flashes from the Future. I love to explore the many dimensions of well-aging as an holistic approach, based on Physical exercise, Mental exercise, Connection to nature, Art therapy, Social interaction, Community bonding, Work/feeling useful, Intergenerational activities, Spiritual openness, Meditation/mindfulness, etc. All this being available to most of us, even beforeContinueContinue reading “Speculative Optimism: Being a Centenarian”
The Great, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
I am very lucky and grateful to have recently joined a fantastic organization called Grey Swan Guild as a board member. Not only is it an amazing intellectual connection with futures thinkers and sensemakers from all over the world (Canada, USA, Sweden, Australia, Uruguay, etc.), but building relationships in a distance during the pandemic isContinueContinue reading “The Great, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”
Ecosystems in Motion
To kick-off the year, I was humbled to be invited to talk at the Inauguration day of the Ecosystems in Motion tour organized by Michel Saloff-Coste and the Université Catholique de Lille. I gave an introduction to Futures Thinking and Strategic Foresight, and particularly underlined the differences between the French-born Prospective School and the Anglo-SaxonContinueContinue reading “Ecosystems in Motion”
What Futurists Can Bring To Entrepreneurs (and vice-versa)
During this SuperBinar, we investigated how entrepreneurs can leverage foresight to conduct their business to success, we explore commonalities between Go-To-Market Strategy and Strategic Foresight, and how to combine them to be prepared for our possible futures.
The Future Post-Pandemic Home on the Informing Choices Minipod
I was recently honored to be invited as a speaker at Steve Wells Minipod series “Informing Choices” along with my fellow futurist and social scientist Alexandra Whittington. Listen to the episode below. “As we have seen across the globe, the Covid-19 pandemic has morphed from a health crisis, to an economic crisis, to a socialContinueContinue reading “The Future Post-Pandemic Home on the Informing Choices Minipod”
The 100 global thought leaders that will inspire you in 2021
“We stepped into the new decade over rocky terrain, uncertain about what the future had in store. But the human tendency of deriving wisdom through experience and passing it on has programmed us to be instinctively prepared in the face of adversity. And that is precisely the mission of the leadersHum community of experts andContinueContinue reading “The 100 global thought leaders that will inspire you in 2021”
A Holistic Approach to Well-Aging
In the Episode #16 Part 2 of Future Hacker, our Silicon Humanism Founder Sylvia Gallusser addresses the topics of abolishing aging, rejuvenation biotechnology, ethics in scientific progress, treatment availability and inclusivity, as well as a holistic approach of well-aging. You will find below the transcript of the conversation. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3mvjTSabRGUc9xIs8IIuWQ Future Hacker, Episode #16 Part 2 with Sylvia Gallusser – TheContinueContinue reading “A Holistic Approach to Well-Aging”
Growth, Collapse, Constraint, and Transform
In the Episode #16 Part 1 of Future Hacker, our Silicon Humanism Founder Sylvia Gallusser addresses the following topics: Becoming a foresight practitioner and developing a futurist mindset;The impact of the pandemic on the next generation, social inequalities, and mental health issues;The future of work, key success factors for remote work, and the worknet model.ContinueContinue reading “Growth, Collapse, Constraint, and Transform”
Future Hacker Interview
Don’t miss Future Hacker’s latest interview with Global Futurist Sylvia Gallusser. Along with the fantastic Maria Athayde, our Silicon Humanism Founder discusses the long-lasting effects of the pandemic on children and women, key success factors for remote work, as well as the future of well-aging, ethics in science, and space travel! Listen to this two-episode conversation on your prefered podcastContinueContinue reading “Future Hacker Interview”
The New Care Act at Work(-from-Home)
‘I Vaccinated Santa Claus,’ Fauci Tells Kids (December 19, NPR). From an apparently frivolous headline, this reveals so much about what we have been through and where we are at today. In one single sentence, we can read many subtexts. There has been a pandemic. We have found a vaccine.Kids are within the confidence. KidsContinueContinue reading “The New Care Act at Work(-from-Home)”
Future of Work: How to Make Remote Work Actually Work?
Foresight Researcher Sylvia Gallusser at Silicon Humanism (California) and Futures Studies Professor David Kalisz at Paris School of Business (France) have just published a white paper on remote work. Download the White Paper:Download We conducted an analysis on key success factors of working-from-home as a dominant culture – why is it inscribed in California workers’ContinueContinue reading “Future of Work: How to Make Remote Work Actually Work?”
Well-Aging: How Close Are We To Abolishing Aging?
Well-Aging designs the process of aging while preserving one’s well-being. The challenge behind Well-Aging resides in the fact that we do not only wish for the individuals of our species to live longer, but mainly to live longer in improved health conditions and in a satisfactory social-emotional environment. It relies on the belief that theContinueContinue reading “Well-Aging: How Close Are We To Abolishing Aging?”
The TETRIS Home Life Style
My life has become a Tetris game. Not the Gameboy one I played in the 1990s. More like the 3-D version with its colored blocks falling at warp speed. But if you lose at Tetris, you miss your place on the podium. If you missed too many tiles in your home life, you can reallyContinueContinue reading “The TETRIS Home Life Style”
Embracing Our Local Economy
The following text is the opening statement held by Sylvia Gallusser in defense of our local economy during the Great Grey Swan Debate. 1. We are social animals. Do you know that song Where Everybody Knows Your Name? There is a part of us which is just like a Cheers character, who likes to have theirContinueContinue reading “Embracing Our Local Economy”
The Great Grey Swan Debate
On October 8, Grey Swan Guild hosted its First Great Debate that shone a light on discussions people are having about the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and which way the future will tilt. For the occasion, a group of 8 thought leaders were convened, with 3 topics and 1 goal: to sensemake around challengesContinueContinue reading “The Great Grey Swan Debate”
Museum of the Future – Pandemic artifacts
What if everyday objects from 2020 became museum objects for our future generations to reflect on? Imagine a collection of pandemic artifacts. Post your own pictures on social media using the hashtag #siliconhumanism. California, 2020. Collection of face masks during the 2020 global pandemic of coronavirus in a family of 5 during shelter-in-place. Kids agedContinueContinue reading “Museum of the Future – Pandemic artifacts”
2021: A Breath Odyssey
2020 had been a whirlwind of a journey through an oxygen-deprived world. A journey that kicked off with breath-taking hearings, indicators of the contaminated atmosphere. A journey during which we were blind-sighted by a novel virus, forcing us to hold our breaths for a prolonged apnea our species was not equipped for. A journey duringContinueContinue reading “2021: A Breath Odyssey”
Transhumanism: blurry boundaries between treatment and enhancement
“First of all, there is a very blurry boundary between human treatment and human enhancement. We have entered a field, where medical and technological achievements can both serve the persons in need and increase capacities of others. For example, we have found remedies for blind people to recover eyesight. But the same research enables toContinueContinue reading “Transhumanism: blurry boundaries between treatment and enhancement”
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