http://www.wishfulthinking.co.uk/2007/06/12/psfk-conference-morning/ inspiring creative professionals Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:19:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.wishfulthinking.co.uk/2007/06/12/psfk-conference-morning/comment-page-1/#comment-60645 PSFK » » Timo Veikkola, Future Strategist at Nokia, on a Vision of our Future at the PSFK Conference London Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:02:31 +0000 http://www.wishfulthinking.co.uk/blog/2007/06/12/psfk-conference-morning/#comment-60645 [...] Mark McGuinness commented on the speech: I was intrigued to learn that we’re currently in a “Noah’s Ark period” of floods, cataracts and hurricanoes, not to mention Famine, War, Pestilence etc - but that by 2010 or so we’ll see renewed optimism in society, which apparently happens at the dawn of every decade. I was fascinated by Timo’s predictions and explanations of how he extrapolates from “What’s happening now?” to “What’s going to happen next?”. By the end of his presentation I was even starting to feel (dare I say it) quite optimistic. Thenl the bubble was burst (for me) when we were presented with the following quotation, apparently without irony: “The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.” Arthur C. Clarke. [...] [...] Mark McGuinness commented on the speech: I was intrigued to learn that we’re currently in a “Noah’s Ark period” of floods, cataracts and hurricanoes, not to mention Famine, War, Pestilence etc – but that by 2010 or so we’ll see renewed optimism in society, which apparently happens at the dawn of every decade. I was fascinated by Timo’s predictions and explanations of how he extrapolates from “What’s happening now?” to “What’s going to happen next?”. By the end of his presentation I was even starting to feel (dare I say it) quite optimistic. Thenl the bubble was burst (for me) when we were presented with the following quotation, apparently without irony: “The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.” Arthur C. Clarke. [...]

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