Google, Nest, Nextsensing and You

I’m betting you like your home, but is your home “conscious” yet? That question, really, comes from Tony Fadell (and Matt Rogers), who are the founders of the Nest (@nest) company [link]. That’s the company which created a user-friendly...

Places You Have Not Been Before

I recently posted 10 questions that every organisation and every manager needs to ask in order to think entrepreneurially [link]. To be sure, some probably saw my list and hopped right on it, printing it out and exploring new possibilities right away. But it dawned on...

Change? Change. Change!

“If you do not change direction”, said Lao Tzu, “you may end up where you are heading.” I’ve been thinking about those ancient words of wisdom for some time now. The reason is really quite simple. Nextsensing is about what needs to be...

Seven Great Quotes About The Future

“I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘How far can I push the company forward in the next 24 hours?’ ” — Leah Busque, Founder and CEO, Taskrabbit “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” —...

Welcome To Our NextSensors!

From the beginning of the Nextsensing Project, I planned to invite a select and diverse corps of leading-edge thinkers to become NextSensors. “NextSensors”, of course, is a neologism designed to describe the special individuals who will soon be deepening...