How We Might Not Have Gotten to Now
Steven Johnson’s How We Got to Now – and why we might not get to Then.
Politics and Policy
A Purely Cognitive Argument Against “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques”
Why torture almost certainly can't work in the real world.
What if Thomas Piketty is Right about Inequality?
A FSG conversation on one of the most important economic questions of our time.
ISIS, Hitler, Orwell
A war with no “good” side.
Scenario Planning Bible
The U.S. Coast Guard releases version 3.0 of Creating and Sustaining Strategic Intent in the U.S. Coast Guard.
JFK + 50: Alternative Scenarios
A few thoughts on this anniversary:
If JFK had lived . . .
Mideast Scenarios, or “Damn, We’re Good”
Where will the Arab Spring and Syria take the Middle East? Well, we kind of called it in 2011.
Airline Scenarios: American-US Airways
Normally we are into alternative scenarios. But airlines seem to be stuck in one scenario.
Two Very Bad Scenario Planning Data Points
Illinois and Ireland and the downside of austerity.
Edward Snowden, Government Surveillance and the Future
Scenarios of future surveillance.