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”
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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”
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”
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?”
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”
The Lone Leader
This text is a fiction piece addressing the topic “Emergent Leadership in the Wake of a Pandemic” and focusing on defining one’s identity as a leader in the new paradigm. The fiction illustrates what it is like to be an entitled leader and still feel lonely and useless, as remote work has overly exposed usContinueContinue reading “The Lone Leader”
Generation Zoom children learning about their roots
This text is an excerpt from the Chapter “The Generation Zoom Classroom” published in the book “Aftershocks & Opportunities: Scenarios for a Post-Pandemic Future” by Fast Future Publishing. If you enjoy the text, feel free to read the full chapter and the entire collection of chapters, available on Fast Future Publishing’s store and on Amazon.ContinueContinue reading “Generation Zoom children learning about their roots”
We (Will) Remain Social Animals
This text has been originally published on the Grey Swan Guild’s website. Read it in full. The COVID crisis has separated individuals in many ways, but even when distant, human beings are resourceful and inventive at connecting. All along the human life cycle, literally from cradle to grave, the pandemic has highlighted that we cravedContinueContinue reading “We (Will) Remain Social Animals”
Rethinking Socio-Emotional Learning (SEL) in the COVID era
Whereas Early Childhood Education (0-8 year-old children) relies on cognitive development, language mobilisation in varied contexts, sensory experiences, social emotional well-being, and moral support, this model of learning has been shattered by the imposed lock-down of students all over the planet during the COVID-19 crisis. Physically distanced from their teachers and peers, living with parentsContinueContinue reading “Rethinking Socio-Emotional Learning (SEL) in the COVID era”
How Do You Listen To Signals From The Future? Here’s How I Do It…
Scanning our current environment in search for signals is a large part of a futurist’s everyday job. Once you have identified a signal from the future, you interpret what kind of change it represents, what driving force is at work in the background, and finally what it would mean if this signal were to beContinueContinue reading “How Do You Listen To Signals From The Future? Here’s How I Do It…”
Live longer, but live longer in good health!
As we are facing the “Caregiving cliff” (in a near future, the number of seniors needing care will greatly exceed the supply of available caregivers), our society is facing major issues as to how to care for the elderly: Seniors are often considered as a cost to society, more or less visible – direct costContinueContinue reading “Live longer, but live longer in good health!”
Happy Future Day!
It is now the seventh year that The Future has an annual celebration day – not everybody is as lucky as us futurists to celebrate the Future every morning! (And I am not talking about Back to the Future Day which occurred October 21, 2015). Future Day is March 1 and exhibits its goal, inContinueContinue reading “Happy Future Day!”
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