Key Insights & News from UBR
Your relationship to food must change immediately.
Collectively, our relationship to food is like a bad marriage. We don't spend time with it except to fulfill our selfish needs. We're seeing someone on the side (junk food instead of real food). And we don't prioritize the relationship. Climate crisis is going to...
The Coming Cyber Security Meltdown
I’ve had the opportunity to work with a number of cybersecurity organizations. Each of them has told me the same thing. In the next 2 to 3 years, there will be a global cybersecurity crisis that will affect businesses, institutions, and homes around the world. It’s...
Negan got it right. People are a resource.
In The Walking Dead streaming series, the notorious villain is a guy named Negan. One of his most quotable lines is “ People are a resource.” Outside of being a very despicable guy, he got that part right. People really are a resource. Here we are, talking about how...
It’s time to transform, whether you like it or not.
Permacrisis is creating a new you. Permacrisis is what happens when you have crisis after crisis after crisis to the point that life is measured by the time in between crises. The AI transformation, political disruption, climate crisis, income inequality,...
Artificial Intelligence Is Biased
During some recent research, I was asking ChatGPT a question about a historical event that happened some time ago. The answer it gave back immediately suggested a cultural bias, in my opinion. Its answer was definitive of Western culture origin and left out world...
Community: Where rugged individualism goes to die.
Last year, my wife decided that she and her close friend were going to throw a birthday party for me. I can say I’ve had 2 birthday parties in my lifetime. One of them was when my sister baked me a cake from her Easy Bake oven when we were kids (for those of you...
There are ways to keep future shock from being so shocking.
If you’re not making peace with change, the next few years are going to be hell for you. We are entering into a time of hyper change. It’s a technology-driven moment in time where change will be rapid, continuous and intense. This kind of change could cause “future...
We’re hypocrites when it comes to telling AI how to behave.
I have the privilege of working with organizations around the country who are seeking to set up various ethics standards and guidance legislation for artificial intelligence so that the nightmare scenario of AI taking over the world, putting masses of us out of work,...
Are we doomed? The top 5 questions people ask me as a Futurist.
In my opinion, the job of a Futurist is to synthesize data, conversations, observations and intuitive thought into actionable suggestions for a client. People will sometimes mistake me and my work as a Journalist with people who read crystal balls and tarot. WIth...
Fire your current consultant and get a new one that can meet this moment.
If you are listening to advisors that quote from leadership books, use celebrity business people as models, and don’t have any real lived experience in business outside of their consultancy, drop them like a bad habit. The time of change we’re in requires more than...