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Well talk about how we define that, but rather reframing it and updating our mental models so that we see the opportunity within this complex landscape. How could you possibly go wrong with that? If youre interested in how we scan, what we scan, what we highlight, what we tag, check out that Diigo Outliner thatll be released as part of our reframe magazine thats free. Again, a lot of them are adult driven, but I saw. It was shocking to me that we showed up to a well, given it was a nice restaurant with people dressed down, I was the only one dressed up. Frank: I am from the south of the United States, so Im pretty sure I know where that came from. He was an alien, black outfit with the appropriate accessories. I dont think you could talk about the zombie apocalypse within the context of technology without talking about the idea of the attention economy and the fact that attention is a scarce commodity. Yvette: The budget is low here. What if I identify atheists? The Wicked Opportunities Podcast is brought to you by Kedge, a global foresight innovation and strategic design firm serving the worlds most successful organizations. We do them in part to level the playing field, to make you feel like you dont have this unique situation and that weve tackled it before. One of the reasons this virus even happened as far as we know so far is an encroachment on our wildlife and on the rain forest and those kinds of things where, because its a zoonotic, a virus, from animals and so that itself speaks to the fact that we dont understand our interconnected ecology, that we are nature. Yvette: The new skill paradigm, it says, is really a meta-skill paradigm. Or homogenous. Its actually based on a piece of work that we authored many years ago called The Seven Shifts of Opportunity. Shout out to not just Clive, but everyone thats working in that field, especially over the last two years. Frankensteins lab the way she describes it, I think really sets the stage for what we were want to talk about this month because she said it was a Solitary chamber or rather cell at the top of the house, separated from all the other apartments by a gallery and a staircase where he kept his workshop of filthy creation. This describes what were talking about, the definition of our wicked problem really is a reference to the infamous laboratory of the lone genius, Victor Frankenstein, a place where ancient alchemy and fringe experiments were practiced away from the public eye without consideration for widespread ethical ramifications or societal education. Voice-over: The Wicked Opportunities Podcast has been brought to you by Kedge, a global foresight innovation and strategic design firm serving the worlds most successful organizations. Thats where the inertia is, is back to the way things were even if thats not feasible. What it does is it hurts space exploration, which is so vital to us. The problems that weve had so far with these types of technologies is that weve used them to reinforce the power structures that already exist. Theyre actually opportunities. Find out all the information you need at thefutureschool.com/yearoffree. You see this when people creating forest cities. Then that way, we can pull this future to today, even faster so how we produce in an anthropological regeneration world. Instead began to define it in terms of a superorganism when we had the internet continued to evolve. This can happen through social distancing, wear your mask, make sure you get it on there. He comes around the corner, Frank does, and hes like, I let ahead and told them Im like [unintelligible 00:04:42]. Anything that looks foreign to us, we develop this disgust symptom or syndrome actually causes us to our disgust responses is what I was trying to say, causes us to reject it. They were like, I cant log on. Then it asked you to recognize all these faces of people. We saw the final vision play out through Mirabel, who, interestingly enough, is the only character that doesnt have a gift, but she probably has the best gift of all, which is the gift of empathy and the gift of really understanding the other characters and the casita and all that. I am trying to lean into it. Goes hand in hand. Of course, it was a white guy who took the idea and ran with it and said, Oh, [crosstalk]. Because if theyre deep and robust, you can go in and find these kinds of products, right? Frank: I remember thinking when I first put it on, Im so cool like Frankenstein. No more talk about, how you were disappointed in my surprises while we were on site for the future [unintelligible 00:03:18]. When we think about shifting from homogeneous and extinction to anthropological regeneration, an obvious place to think about impact and implementation and having this be a reality is through the voice of the activist. I dont know if Starbucks does this in particular, or if it was just an example. Yvette: Youre going back to food, you must be hungry. Of course, Savannah, Georgia, its been named the most haunted city in the United States of America. Frank: Tamarah is an amazing futurist and design professional who works for Slalom. Frank: Thats right. Frank: I think we created this skit Our audience doesnt know this but all the skits weve ever done were created driving down the highway somewhere whether it was driving down the highway in Munich, Germany, or in California. Order them from Amazon. Im going to increase STEM education. Frank: He was a gravedigger for one thing because he got Igor to go out. Frank: Thats right. Frank: Then we have unlearn so its been reframed, but only its own natural wing or zeitgeist of society, right? Frank: We did. Its always about some corporation or organization doing that. Thats the only way thats going to be successful. Its like, if you eat one, youve had more than one that you should have. Shes such a well-rounded example of what weve shared here today. These are things that go against the betterment of the overall society, which, again, ironically, in the long term, would benefit me as a homeowner because it improves the housing values if everyone gains. I have an interesting segue there. Stay safe. Its our office theres not going to be an inflatable Frankenstein out there or something or a Dracula. The misinformation is a weapon. Its not one group. We believe that everyone should have their lives professionally and personally fueled by foresight. [00:25:46] Yvette: Building the foresight culture, right. One of the biggest companies, period, is instituting a platform where from ten oclock at night till eight oclock in the morning, no kids in China, at least on the mobile, can play games. This technique will be a game changer, an easy differentiator for brands, because remember, you dont have to consciously see that its your face, the mere presence of your face in an image will drive your attention to the ad unconsciously. I think this article is speaking to how were all being zombified, and theyre using our face literally against us to perpetuate this unconscious attention to the screen. We came up with for the connect question. Frank: I did. Yvette: Its like the banker is exemplified. Yvette: Yes, first they were going to keep it a secret. If anybody is looking for foresight in the Asia APAC region, Im your man. Yvette: You dont realize that your click of the like, or your watching of that meme or sharing of it, how it propalgates. The Wicked Opportunities Podcast follows the rhythm of the natural foresight framework, a unique approach to futures thinking that embraces our world of ever-increasing complexity for greater opportunities and transformation. Its really this month, almost more than any other monster month is about specifically about foresight. Yvette:Yes. They never recognize hes even there. I hate to tell you but the earth was not placed here for your consumptive purposes. Frank: Yes. We want ownership just like you have. We talked about how we try to switch out systems and we really get really curious, why doesnt it stick? [00:23:53] Frank: More so, in a manner of speaking, was able to bring the family into a new future, a better future. You dont need to be afraid to also promote that. We start to imagine what the world looks like, the world were living in. Yvette: Access to food and food deserts all play a role here. I can never remember her name but Goldie Hawns daughter, shes become a famous actress in her own right, sorry, I forgot her name. Just as a reminder, in week five, week four, I just want it to be a fifth week. She did that, not him. Lets start with our resilient response. As always Mr. Spencer, its been a privilege to spend the last 40 minutes with you talking about this incredible Wicked Opportunity. I think even in the cereal was like the monster, yes, the representation, but this delicious cereal created by the makers of Franken Berry. I think that its very similar to the Gibson quote, the futures here its just not evenly distributed. We might be thinking again that something seems really transformative in one region is actually more of a resilient response someplace else. Our final voice of the three voices we wanted to talk about today, weve talked obviously, about the activist voice, the spiritual voice and now we want to talk about the future voice. Yvette: Im super fearful of mispronouncing peoples names. Its because it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of a capitalist economy and we just cannot wrap our heads around the fact that I do not need to push my kid necessarily back to school. Can you imagine what really thinking about a global brain like this does to us spiritually? Everybody has wonderment and thats really what the basis of science is. But what have we thought of this or more intentional, as I said, in a reduction of our consumptive footprint. That nasty letter not dirty letter would be about me saying something bad about the metaverse, because you guys have already heard that Im not convinced about this whole metaverse thing, especially when its like, Oh, the metaverse is growing in popularity and its about buying a virtual dress for your avatar. And so are not necessarily with the best stories, but just the strongest story or the story that lands. Yvette: Yes. The budget is low but it is a cool looking wheel. Bayou City Buzz: Houston gets Wicked. Yvette: Excellent. Kwamou Eva Feukeu, Sandile Hlatshwayo, Alanna Markle, Ozge Aydogan, and I think I named the rest of them. Frank:They did an amazing job and actually on several different occasions and one that I can in particular they presented to the older founder and the leadership team and everybody was blown away. Yvette: Were fond of saying that a lot of our wicked problems come from the fact that we silo things, and I cant think of a more siloing impactful aspect to the zombie apocalypse than the idea that technology is separate from us, that technology is separate from humanity, that technology is separate from society. Frank: All the hats. Yvette: I just want to stay with that resource depletion for just a moment, because this idea of leveraging fossil fuels and mining the earth for its value and now potentially mining asteroids for their value, its the way that weve in the industrialized world seen things since colonization likely. Yvette: -having this negative feeling around something thats different. Thats what were going to do in todays show. Yvette: It was actually Pantry Pride at the time if Im not mistaken. Well just make it up. Frank: Yes. Frank: And we serve billions. Frank: It enters the station, and its like it blows the station apart. I dont doubt that at all. No small company, even though it was family-owned. Look no further to your daily debates about vaccinations-. Thats really the power of foresight, right? Alien trope, literature, movies, and all, sometimes the aliens come to help us. Yvette: Thats right. Shes based out of New York. Of course, if you want to learn more, just go to thefuturesschool.com/yearoffree and youll see everything there. Hes probably doesnt leave his house. Our first week were super excited. I sought out this article because were seeing this happen in our development here where we live in Central Florida. As a matter of fact, theres no White males in this article. It happened to smell like trash or something because I think they were collecting the trash and she got a whiff of trash smell. Thats like, How I know how to save the earth. WebWelcome to the first episode of 2021! Frank: -and teach. If nothing else its a mouthful. No, it was supposed to be a great thing. Yvette: The hiving concept, just so Im clear, this is the idea that when birds fly, theres not one clear leader. How do we get more education to the hands of people? Again, our metaphor for resilience was World War D, or World War Digital. We have to take time to discuss what are the origins of this? Many of his competitors and similar organizations died when the internet came on. We just did a couple of weeks ago. We just did biomimicry. These issues are complex and were not trying to oversimplify it. I just wanted to clarify on that because I dont want to make it sound like were putting more on the activists shoulders because thats certainly not what were suggesting. In this one, were doing environmental scanning. Of course, the classic examples are like, lets fashion the end of the bullet train like the beak of a bird that travels through the air and doesnt have a Sonic boom every time it dives. In fact, in [crosstalk], Yvette: Yes, I was just thinking about how as they were toiling away in servitude, these African slaves would contemplate suicide-. We use natural foresight tools to reframe a wicked problem as a wicked opportunity by updating our mental models. We dont have to wait 50 or 100 years. Its called life. Its like they dont want to be applied. If youve been with us since the first collection you know that we used to use CLA or we would use CLA for this part of the first collection that first week, and for this collection, were using learn and learn relearn. Now that Im thinking about it, its the end of a quarter so we are going to need to do financial results. Again, thank you to Alice Iddi, our wonderful mapmaker, and to our also illustrating [unintelligible 00:35:05] who makes our illustration, and to you Yvette. Thats another good tip when youre doing the art [unintelligible 00:33:22] tool is to Listen for the echoes because if you really saw in each one of those, we had a different response, but there was an echo throughout them or a mirror throughout them. The truth of the matter is Brunos best visions were open, they were dependent on actor agency, they were really guiding narratives that generated possibilities. Frank: Were going to give it our best shot. The only way you would do that is by using history and we know that thats the worst predictor of the future. Theyre skeptical. Instead of design an elegant ending, what if we designed an elegant existence? Why didnt we start with C, and then B, and then A instead of ABC? Wow. If youre not familiar with the term design fiction, its something that companies and organizations and governments and society has been using increasingly. Thank God it was an English-speaking country, no offense, I know they speak-. The goals to counter losses were equally diverse, but experts say the participating countries have failed in large part because they have struggled to address conservation while focusing on their economies and rising populations., Another piece that we wanted to point out just very quickly. Its sending a message to the RNA to tell your body to replicate or to watch out for the spike proteins so that when it does come in, it will be able to fight it. Again, we are excited about the Year of Free. Frank: Yes. If were going to do it justice, were going to look at these articles that we found today. How we try to control our universe. This article just talks about how, in reality, one of the major drivers here is Americas scarcity mindset. By the way, theres a whole, I think, comment we want to make on that in just a minute, but like Yvette said earlier, goldfish dont live very long. Yvette: If you are a practitioner and you are working with a consultant and theyre like, We got you, we can get you the moon. What is going on? I am Frank Spencer, but Michael Landon was. [00:09:08] Frank: Right. Next, service in terms of the global brain. The water is important and humanity is important to all of creation. We belong here. You really flip this thing on its head, or you begin to flip this thing on its head, and youre saying, Im injecting a cure into this that actually causes there to be a benefit. How do we begin at a young age to inspire youth and not drill it out of them? She has to sit in this chair at some point and just be on the podcast. From a resilient response, I think I need your reaction would just be lets stop science. Frank:Yes, because then we wouldnt have these two or four-year election cycles. [00:26:33] Yvette: All right, so weve reached the part of our podcast where we do our shoutout and its always fun thinking about who we want to give a shoutout to. You have a different memory than I do. Frank: 99.9% of clients and the other 0.01 or 0.1. Frank: This is this idea of more of a trust-based and open-sourced platform. Yvette: Obviously like Frank was saying, its a clear extension from the idea of authentic experiences as well, especially how weve framed it, and if you think of biomimicry as redesigning our spaces to reconnect us to and realize we are a part of nature. Yvette: Theta waves work with other brain waves to help us recall personal memories, something thats often lost in Alzheimers patients. Anyway. Frank: There was that little to me. Yvette:Actually, Im thankful for those three firings and the truth is weve actually each been fired from a more recent gig. It was just a drone, but it was obvious that the technology was alien. [00:04:37] Yvette: Because were so busy because theres so many people taking advantage of the year of free. Yvette: I know its safe or air-conditioned. Its like, Oh, we can all be one, and then its like, But we cant. We wouldnt have a very full podcast. Of course, that would be a big part of democratized discovery is breaking down those silos, making information much more readily available. Yvette: Its crazy because were in a world where-. Frank: I know its a bunch of mad scientists over there plus you also pour into this elixir, a lack of education. Ive got to go back and check, but from a Peachy Dakinya from the Center for Engaged Foresight on the Philippines, and I probably just messed up her name, but I think I phonetically pronounced it. Right, wrong or indifferent, its just factual. Frank: We dont want to get ahead of ourselves, but I do want to say there will be something. You might say, we dont know whats going to happen in 10,000 years from now, Im not asking to know whats going to happen. Its interesting because again, the prompter there was values and aspects of our society. Imagine if you will, whether its generations or ideology or whatever currently creates chasms between us and differences between us and misunderstandings. The people that get inside of them are from ancient, way back that knew how to turn somebody into a zombie. Of course, you can get this wherever you listen to your podcasts, but on Future Space, we host discussions asynchronously throughout the month. Great group-, Frank: Yes. I love that you brought that up because if you think about the whole zombie and even all the way back to the history, thats all spiritual. Frank: This might be combined with something like you like to do everything fast. The Jeff Goldblum movie, you dont show that to kids. Which again, is so telling. Frank: Exactly. Yvette: [laughs] It sounds silly when you say it that way. Its not evolving. This is a pioneering course in the world, an initiative of Teach the Future Brazil in partnership with the school and based in Sao Paulo. She goes on to say, What we need is an economy not based on the accumulation of money, but the living logic of well-being. I love that, the living logic of wellbeing. Yvette: From alien invasion, we go to alien eyes. Yvette: Powerful. In part, its inspiration, its also support. I think for far too long we have segregated and siloed our business practices and our organizations from being human centric and being spiritual and were starting to see that change. Are we just parasites? Frank: Strategy, how to do it better, a better mousetrap. Frank: That was a good one. Yvette: Yes. Like does that seem like it would be good? Complexity is your friend. Theyre struggling even harder to curate and cultivate a organizational culture and I could see that resulting in a backlash to creativity of wanting more and more people to perform. Its about looking at the collisions. It was a very popular several posts that they put up about this because they built a model showing the cone of possibilities, but they showed it backwards as well. Yvette: -wax museum meets Ripleys, meets something. [00:08:58] Yvette: This might be therapy for us. Do you want to just share? We know that thats not true and again, theres a bit of a meta element to this article because I encourage you all to go and read it because he talks about the other two books as several books and just how the way that youre telling the story is critically important but I think the article comes to a climax when he says science-centric storytelling implies that science sits outside of society, that it deals primarily with pure arenas of nature and knowledge, but that is a false narrative. This idea of futures thinking and foresight is. Obviously, were not saying, literally the way that were approaching it today, but were saying by leveraging the technologies in transformative ways, we actually need to have more technology, more widespread use, more integration. One day the priest looked up from his desk and his eyes, nose, and ears were bleeding. This idea that we allow the number of, for example, blood clots, we can go down a whole path there, but were not going to go. Im going to control it. We have gone through learn, unlearn, and now we want to be able to tell people what the wicked opportunity is, define that. Everybody wants until it gets taught out of you by science. Yvette: Yes. We saw a couple of months ago that in Copenhagen, I think it was the Copenhagen Institute for the Future, was also doing an initiative there where they were putting future in elementary schools. Again, that can lock the doors to a broader, more diverse, more varied, and colored way of seeing the world. Were excited to be introducing a new collection ofThe Wicked Opportunities Podcastfor the next year. All theyre really wanting to do is they were like, Heres your password. Theyre wanting to get to see if you recognize these people and connect names. Why is the world the way it is? Foresight could be used for what and has been used for whatever, but that doesnt negate the fact that the key DNA of the field, there should be multiple ways of knowing. These themselves are zombie tropes, were living in it. Think about what public lands are and what that means. Yvette: Okay, everybody. They had some articles about this and its like public and private entities coming together-. Theres a phobia for everything. I think this even goes back some studies that show that when you do foresight in your organization, people get jazzed about it, and then when you stop doing it they know that youre almost like youre hiding something again and that we need Just like the article you read to us already from last week, that we need to actually have uncertainty built into our organizations and society. Its like what we tell people when we are advising them about creating a foresight competency, that siloing that away or if there was a way to even just purchase the future of your company and be able to know that having that volume of knowledge is pretty useless because youre not equipped to do anything with it or understand it, or really dont have the culture within your organization to address it, to accept it, and to act on it. Yvette:Its interesting because a lot of the recommendations coming out of the high potentials were very disruptive, provocative, and transformative taking the organization to its next level of growth and opportunity. Uzomah and quarterbacks Tim Boyle and Chris Streveler. Frank: Because I actually displayed for the people too. [00:03:51] Yvette: Again, we wont talk just about this movie, well, kind of we will, but well bring it back to foresight here in a minute. There are people within HR or innovation or whatever who have the power to bring you in for short engagements or maybe longer-term engagements. Economists have measured the loss of aggregate growth as a result of restrictions on housing supply to be roughly 36%. Yvette: Urbanization is fascinating. This is week two of our new collection, the first months of our new collection. Its like, How does the Borg remain individual and yet still be in the collective? There was so much talk about when you got disconnected from the collective you could no longer hear the thoughts of everybody, which was really sad. Its our mission life work to demystify these tools. They became very popular very quickly, not just for the adults to take their kids there, but as a meeting place in the neighborhood for people to meet up in the mornings and have coffee and start to get to know each other, whereas before they werent talking to each other at all. In the push, were being more reactionary, in this middle section, were trying to make a shift so were not just reacting to the response, were thinking more thoughtfully about how to avoid disruption and so in the way that businesses and governments have reacted, theyre like, Look, lets stop the bleeding. We are working our way through the natural foresight framework to really show how we can leverage complexity with updating our mindset to really unframe or reframe, I should say, alien invasion as alien eyes. I love that you mentioned of course this micro-movement. I mean costumes and like just so well-curated that I know that she was teaching a lot of folks and the views were through the roof, it went viral. It actually. Remember, there was a movie called On The Block or something like that, and aliens invade. Again, thats why I think democratized discovery and what were going to continue to talk about in the rest of this months podcast when we talk next week about resilient adaptive and transformative strategies to ensure a democratized discovery future when we talk about in week four prototyping that democratized discovery future. I love that, what you said that you eventually translate this into morality and the rest of that sentence that I stopped reading at the beginning was protecting us from disease but produces strong reactions to perceived outgroups, which could eventually create greater diversity, cultural evolution and societal transformation. As a matter of fact, one of my favorite things that we did in the research for all of this was this idea of what they might call the witch train in South Africa where it was and maybe in some places still is folklore thought of these trains where these witches are on board and they actually are gathering people and either hypnotizing them or killing them and reawakening them to turn them into labor to use them for the witchs labor or for just labor for the state or whatever the case might be. Thatll be the last one, but itll be interesting. Thats what I think when I go up, and everybody else just think cutesy hay bale. Connect the connect question, what technologies, mediums, and arts will be used to connect people, places, and things. Month one, you did zombies, month two you did aliens.