New Next Now (Trends for August 2017)

New Next Now (Trends for August 2017)

Keeping Up with the Trends

Sav­ing the world, one video game at a time. Sound unbe­liev­able? Accord­ing to Rachel Ament (@rachelament) at @NPR, sev­er­al indie game devel­op­ers are hop­ing to do just that. Just this year, 17-year-old game design­er Sky­lar Thomas part­nered with PETA’s...
Pareto On Steroids

Pareto On Steroids

Thinking in New Ways

Vilfre­do Fed­eri­co Dama­so Pare­to was born in Italy in 1848,” wrote Kevin Kruse (@Kruse) for @Forbes [link] about a year ago. And he does as good a job as any­one at sum­ming up why Pareto’s think­ing is remem­bered today. Leg­end has it that one day he...
Leaders Take Imaginative Leaps

Leaders Take Imaginative Leaps

Thinking in New Ways

The lead­ers I most admire have the uncan­ny abil­i­ty to take imag­i­na­tive leaps. Con­sid­er Reed Hast­ings (@reedhastings), the CEO of Net­flix. Hast­ings is one of the pio­neers of alter­na­tive tele­vi­sion, and Net­flix stock has been on fire for...
New Next Now (May 2016)

New Next Now (May 2016)

Keeping Up with the Trends

Every month, The Nextsens­ing Project pub­lish­es a brief review of some of the many great arti­cles, books, videos, and ideas-in-oth­er-forms that we encounter. The nextsens­ing mind, we believe, is always stretch­ing to see beyond the mar­ket­place hori­zon....

University of Reimagination (Part 1)

Discovering the Future

MIT has just launched a bold, brave and public initiative to reimagine what the university could be in seven years. This is the kind of nextsensing initiative that so many public and private enterprises desperately need to do but either (a) don’t know it, or (b)...