{"id":245802,"date":"2026-10-22T09:05:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/how-to-be-a-futurist-without-predicting-the-future"},"modified":"2026-10-22T09:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:05:24","slug":"how-to-be-a-futurist-without-predicting-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/how-to-be-a-futurist-without-predicting-the-future","title":{"rendered":"How to Be a Futurist [Without Predicting the Future]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><audio controls style=\"width:625px;\"><source src=\"https:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/1081755361-singularity1on1-futurist.mp3?_=1\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>In 2021, a client asked me for a virtual keynote on #futurism. Pandemic rules: no live audience, no room to feed off, just me and a camera in a studio I rented for the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>I rewatched it this week. I cringed. The delivery, the pacing, the energy you can only get from real people in front of you. There are a million things I\u2019d change today, and most of them I already have.<\/p>\n<p>The argument, though, I\u2019d give again tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing people ask when they learn I\u2019m a #futurist is what comes next. I\u2019ve come to think it\u2019s the wrong question. The weather doesn\u2019t care what the forecast says. The future does, and that changes everything about how we should approach it.<\/p>\n<p>Five years on, most #AI labs, investors, and pundits are selling certainty about where we\u2019re headed. That makes this rough little COVID-era talk feel more relevant now than when I recorded it.<\/p>\n<p>Isaac Newton, quantum physics, Wayne Gretzky, a 100-foot wave and Frank Herbert all show up. So does the question I think we should be asking instead.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/how-to-be-a-futurist-without-predicting-the-future\">Continue reading \u201cHow to Be a Futurist [Without Predicting the Future]\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, a client asked me for a virtual keynote on #futurism. Pandemic rules: no live audience, no room to feed off, just me and a camera in a studio I rented for the occasion. I rewatched it this week. I cringed. The delivery, the pacing, the energy you can only get from real people [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}