09 2024 April
AXA’s New Foresight Report Offers 100 Reasons to Love the Future
There are plenty of futurists who will offer you a list of all the ways the world can go wrong, and things could be worse....
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08 2024 April
Harper Collins Identifies Eco-Friendly Fonts to Save Thousands of Trees and Reduce Paper Usage
Every few months there are new sustainability stories of the world’s largest brands trying to create less wasteful packaging. Coca-Cola announced a new lighter bottle design this...
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05 2024 April
The Disturbing Truth About How Trader Joe’s Sources New Products
Trader Joe’s doesn’t seem like an evil brand. Their personality-driven backstory offers an irresistible underdog mentality that drives rabid brand fans who celebrate every new product arrival. Unfortunately,...
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04 2024 April
How AI Is Making April Fool’s Day Easier … and Harder
This week my Future Normal co-author Henry and I announced a bold new partnership with LEGO to create a series of limited edition future-thinking sets inspired by...
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03 2024 April
What The “Bridesmaid Burnout” Tells Us About the Future of Friendship
Back in early Fall of 2023, Glamour magazine launched a series of articles on the topic of “bridesmaid burnout.” Inspired by the spiraling demands of time, money...
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02 2024 April
How To Post on LinkedIn (Or Social Media) Without Feeling Embarrassed
LinkedIn can be a cringey place. As a “jobs board with a social network layered on top of it,” the platform has a consistent stream of...
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What’s Wrong with God Chatbots? Inside the AI Future of Religion
Nearly every faith now has several chatbots trained on religious texts and designed by technologists with the ambitious belief that these could make religion more...
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This Brilliant Nonprofit Might Have the Answer to Solve America’s Political Division
The widely publicized death of local news has created a knowledge and truth void when it comes to very important public questions. Like how are your tax...
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The Good and Bad of Planning Your Next Trip Using AI Travel Tools
The promise is appealing. Just put your desired holiday destination into an AI travel planning tool and it can quickly generate a sample itinerary with...
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Do You Have the Right to Recline in a Crowded Airplane Economy Seat?
Seat reclining does not improve your leg room. That’s just one of the underappreciated truths about airplane seats that seems like it needs to be...
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Barilla and the Marketing Pitfall of the Unnecessary Celebrity Spokesperson
Pasta boxes are the perfect packaging to reuse. Pasta leaves no residue, and the boxes are generally large enough to fit other items. That’s clearly...
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Lincoln Introduces Scent Cartridges to Enhance the Driving Experience
Who doesn’t love that new car smell? The problem is, eventually it will wear off and then your car smells like something else. And if...
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Facebook Brought Back the “Poke” Button … Here’s Why So Many People Started Using It Again
About a decade ago in a Facebook post, Mark Zuckerberg once wrote “we thought it would be fun to make a feature that has no...
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