In this insightful episode, Ross Dawson interviews futurist Sylvia Gallusser about multidisciplinary foresight and how we can all become proactive in shaping the future. Sylvia highlights the power of combining fields like sociology and history to identify long-term patterns, while using creative tools like envisioning meditation and fiction to imagine actionable future scenarios. They alsoContinueContinue reading “Multidisciplinary Foresight”
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A Half-Year of Future Vision
Discover a sample of our work at Silicon Humanism with 16 issues of Future Vision. Future Vision Volume 1Download
Weaving the Future of Fashion and Clothing
Our last issue of the schoolyear is out! Illustration by Peter van Barneveld In this 16th issue, Future Vision investigates the Future of Clothing and Fashion: 🧦 Smart socks for babies👙 Textile waste inundating Earth👢 Innovative clothing for healthcare and rehabilitation👕 3D-printing clothes at home👜 Fashion and style with Coco Chanel👒 Virtual Fitting Rooms🕸 Biomimicry — fromContinueContinue reading “Weaving the Future of Fashion and Clothing”
Be Kind, Unwind: The Future of Sleep, Relaxation, and Mindfulness
As Mental Health Awareness Month is observed in May in the United States, we dedicate this issue to sleep, relaxation, and mindfulness.Let’s envision how we are going to sleep, dream, and unwind in the future with Future Vision and Silicon Humanism.You are now familiar with our signature format:💟 Signals of the Future💟 Inspirations from amazingContinueContinue reading “Be Kind, Unwind: The Future of Sleep, Relaxation, and Mindfulness”
Toys, Games, and Imagining the Future
🚀 Hello, All-Star Futurists and Futures Gamers! 🌟 We are back from spring break with another thrilling issue of Future Vision, your go-to newsletter for all things ahead of the curve! This week, we cover the Future of Toys & Games! 🎲🤖In this issue, we’re diving headfirst into the future with recent signals:🧠 Witness historyContinueContinue reading “Toys, Games, and Imagining the Future”
The Future of Pets and Pet Care
🐾 Greetings, Futures inquirers and pet aficionados! 🐾 Welcome to another pawsome edition of #FutureVision, the weekly newsletter dedicated to all things foresight. In our 9th issue, we’re embarking into the future of pets! 🐶🦜🐢🐰🐍 🌍 We discuss trends and signals of change: What is the cost of canine companionship? 🐕 What are the challengesContinueContinue reading “The Future of Pets and Pet Care”
Leap Day of the Swan: The State of Work
It happens every…126,144,000 seconds2,102,400 minutes35,040 hours1,460 days4 years of orbits ’round the sun…It’s Leap Day – a four-year milestone our Guild wants to celebrate and milepost … because a lot can happen in four years.Leap Day has been notorious for being ignored unless you happen to have a wedding anniversary, or you are a Leapling (born on Feb 29th). ButContinueContinue reading “Leap Day of the Swan: The State of Work”
Launching… “Future Vision”
🚀 Excited to announce the launch of my new publication, “Future Vision: the newsletter for young futurists”! 🚀 As someone who loves teaching as much as loves studying the future, I believe it’s time for me to act on my will to help the younger ones to embrace it! Every week, we’ll share a tasteContinueContinue reading “Launching… “Future Vision””
Top 10 Board Games for Futurists!
A few months ago, I shared a Top 10 Sci-fi TV shows for Futurists and assessed how much they rank on the futuristic scale, along three dimensions: Worldbuilding, Storytelling, and Futures Thinking. Friends of mine – who know that I love board games at least as much as I enjoy TV series! – have requestedContinueContinue reading “Top 10 Board Games for Futurists!”
The Phygital Vertigo
After 3 years – a global pandemic, life as an entrepreneur, work-from-home – I went back to a corporate workplace last week to discover Accenture’s gorgeous 5-floor office within the Salesforce tower in San Francisco. I had the impression to enter the “workplace of the future”, with transparency, biophilia, community, and sustainability at the core. TheContinueContinue reading “The Phygital Vertigo”
[TOP 10 Innovations at CES 2022] Tech gets humanized!
Tech gets humanized at CES 2022! The Wunderman Thompson report of CES 2022 key trends underlines that despite a mostly digital participation (40,000 in-person participants vs. 171,000 at latest edition in 2020), technology is becoming more human-centered. At Silicon Humanism we are particularly attentive, hopeful, and eager to follow the development of: 1. Multisensory Metaverse Shiftall, a Panasonic subsidiary, presented aContinueContinue reading “[TOP 10 Innovations at CES 2022] Tech gets humanized!”
[Future of the Home] “Encanto” or the coming-of-age tale of a house
The latest Disney movie, Encanto, is not as much driven by a princess-like character as by an enchanted home. The Madrigal house is the core character and, to my eyes, the true heroine of the movie. I won’t spoil the plot here nor reveal all the magical gifts of the Madrigal family members (fifteen goodContinueContinue reading “[Future of the Home] “Encanto” or the coming-of-age tale of a house”
[Future of Work] The Change Alchemist
We are really fond of Shobhana Viswanathan(she/her)’s podcast series! The Change Alchemist is an invaluable source of insights on how to deal with change in our professional career and personal life, as individuals and as organizations. It’s based on conversations with thought leaders, scientists, professors, and business leaders on AI, neuroscience, psychology, and business. Global Futurist SylviaContinueContinue reading “[Future of Work] The Change Alchemist”
[The Future of Holidays] Christmas in 2040
How will Santa look like in 2040? Will we still celebrate Christmas at home with family or in the metaverse with friends and celebrities? What kind of presents will we choose and who will deliver them? Steve Wells offers a podcast series on Christmas 2040 dedicated to exploring the future of the tradition. Global FuturistContinueContinue reading “[The Future of Holidays] Christmas in 2040”
[Artifact from the Future] An Obituary from 2050 to explore the Meaning of Life and the Future of Death
Have you ever wondered how life on earth is going to look like in 2050? The project “One Day in 2050” features news stories from each day of the year 2050 by writers from all over the world. I contributed to the December 8 headline with a special artifact from the future – an obituaryContinueContinue reading “[Artifact from the Future] An Obituary from 2050 to explore the Meaning of Life and the Future of Death”
[Future of the Home] QUIZ – What House Are You?
[TAKE THE QUIZ] “What house are you?” In which home environment do you live in and how could you futureproof your current housing? Take this fun 10-question quiz and download the report to check how resilient your home is. Link to the quiz: https://www.tryinteract.com/share/quiz/619422358980b10018f230d0 With a Strategic Foresight and Multidisciplinary approach, we have been studyingContinueContinue reading “[Future of the Home] QUIZ – What House Are You?”
[Future of Work] Hacking HR
The Hacking HR Podcast – Episode 318 Interview with Sylvia Gallusser – Sylvia is a Global Futurist and the Founder at Silicon Humanism. She works conducting foresight research, thinking about potential future scenarios and how to get ready for them. Sylvia has many years of experience advising Tech companies on their Strategy, Business Development andContinueContinue reading “[Future of Work] Hacking HR”
Future Summit November 15-21
How does “home” look like in the future? What are the impacts of new trends in sustainability or demography? And what transformations has the pandemic brought to housing and homes? Futurist Sylvia Gallusser will join the #FutureSummit2021 with a presentation on “Four archetypes of the Future Home”. Thank you Ciprian Stanescu for having us! The Future Summit is organized by Social InnovationContinueContinue reading “Future Summit November 15-21”
Why Strategic Foresight Matters – And How We Conduct It At Silicon Humanism
Watch the replay of our conversation with Sean Moffitt and Rom Gayoso, Ph.D., where I introduce our mission at Silicon Humanism, how it intersects technology and humanism, is inherently multi-disciplinary, and constitutes an open call-to-action – a call to (re)place the human component at the core of our technological advancements. The Silicon Humanism approach connects with a notion at the veryContinueContinue reading “Why Strategic Foresight Matters – And How We Conduct It At Silicon Humanism”
Who is Global Futurist Sylvia Gallusser?
This is an excerpt from the article Eight Questions With Featured Grey Swan Guild Member: Sylvia Gallusser Global Futurist — Founder & CEO @Silicon Humanism, Board Member @Grey Swan Guild, Mentor @Sustainable Ocean Alliance Our Eight Questions is part of our ongoing series profiling some of the amazingly talented members of our global Grey Swan Guild and get behindContinueContinue reading “Who is Global Futurist Sylvia Gallusser?”
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