The Griff is following alcohol Data points collected for alcohol The Griff is tracking alcohol. Actually it’s following beer, aperitif, spirits, wine, and mixology because alcohol is a bundle…| Mapping the Future
One of our fundamental principles on M-T-F is that the future is not just for cool-hunters. It’s not just about the latest fads. That’s fine for the fashionable futurist. But real futur…| Mapping the Future
The contents of Steampunk tile tell a story. The first tile introduces the term. And then through the next six tiles, we show IBM’s noble effort to study Steampunk and then declare it the big…| Mapping the Future
GHE20G0TH1K is a tiny trend.It’s not the future. It’s not even a future. It is a community of enthusiasm that started small and will stay small.I came across it by accident. What, I won…| Mapping the Future
Until quite recently we were unapologetically in love with our celebrities. They were the last elite standing.Experts, academics, social elites, politicians, civil servants, artists, authors, intel…| Mapping the Future
In late 2019 I had a meeting with Jodi Harris in NYC.She looked at me across her desk, and smiled, and said,”Look, we don’t need to hear about the latest thing. We don’t only care…| Mapping the Future
This is an excerpt from an essay I wrote a couple of years ago for The Antioch Review. (You can find the entire essay under the title Remaking the Museum for the 21st Century in Volume 16, Number 2…| Mapping the Future
While walking on Sunday, it occured to me that two parts of the Griff might be connected in ways I hadn’t seen. Thus did “Failure to Launch” seem to connect to “Incel.”…| Mapping the Future
Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616)Hakluyt (pronounced “hak-loot” and “hak-light”) was an Elizabethan chaplain, private secretary, and deeply curious man who applied himself to a particular task: knowing e…| Mapping the Future
This is my map of the future. I know it doesn’t look like a map of space, but then it’s a map of time.Each of these tiles represents something I think could transform us.How did I compi…| Mapping the Future
outtake from Griff, with red rectangle around the term Empathy Empathy may seem like a weird thing to spot and track. What can it possibly have to do with our future?Well, we all listened to the 20…| Mapping the Future
