Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Future: A Challenge to Meta’s Promise of AI for Everyone Mark Zuckerberg’s essay, “The Future Is for Everyone: The Path to a Positive AI Future,” advances an attractive proposition: superintelligence should expand individual agency rather than remain concentrated in a few laboratories, companies, or governments. He frames Meta’s role around personal … [Read more...] about Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Future: A Challenge to Meta’s Promise of AI for Everyone
Scenario Planning
“SDCC ’26: Why futurist Daniel Rasmus is talking to librarians at Comic-Con” now up at The Beat
"SDCC ’26: Why futurist Daniel Rasmus is talking to librarians at Comic-Con" now up at The Beat Futurist and Serious Insights founder Daniel W. Rasmus was recently featured in The Beat for his appearance at San Diego Comic-Con’s Conference for Educators & Librarians. In “Why Futurist Daniel Rasmus Is Talking to Librarians at Comic-Con,” journalist Nancy Powell explores … [Read more...] about “SDCC ’26: Why futurist Daniel Rasmus is talking to librarians at Comic-Con” now up at The Beat
Worktech 2026: Scenario Planning, The Future of Work and Intelligent Buildings
Worktech 2026: Scenario Planning, The Future of Work and Intelligent Buildings The following is a transcript of the presentation by Daniel W. Rasmus at Worktech 2026: Seattle, held on July 21, 2026. A couple of you I gave cards to, and I told you they were kind of cool. I told you I would tell you now why they look like they do. Tomorrow morning very early, I am getting … [Read more...] about Worktech 2026: Scenario Planning, The Future of Work and Intelligent Buildings
The End of Future-Proofing and Why Maturity Is Now a Mirage
The End of Future-Proofing and Why Maturity Is Now a Mirage An update of an article first posted on LinkedIn. The idea of future-proofing has expired. Maturity, as we’ve known it, is a mirage. What matters now is adaptability at speed—learning as a core competency, resilience as a design principle, and policies, practices, spaces, and technologies that rapidly realign … [Read more...] about The End of Future-Proofing and Why Maturity Is Now a Mirage
Optimism Is Not a Strategy. It Is an Input.
Optimism Is Not a Strategy. It Is an Input. McKinsey’s “The case for optimism in uncertain times,” written by Yuval Atsmon, makes a useful distinction between blind positivity and action-oriented optimism. Yuval Atsmon argues that pessimism can be as irrational as optimism when the facts are incomplete, and that long-term optimism can motivate the work required to create … [Read more...] about Optimism Is Not a Strategy. It Is an Input.