Tag: Forecasting
Forecasting failure: A short history of the future
Watch the video of James Woudhysen’s lecture on Forecasting at The Academy, 2023
Read the full article...Some ABCs of forecasting: UX Brighton, November 2018
In this talk, James outlines some Dos and Don’ts to remember when imagining how people are likely to evolve in the years to 2030
Read the full article...Predicting the future
Developments tomorrow and the day after are more certain than is often assumed
Read the full article...Retailing at Goodyear Dunlop’s ‘State of the Nation 2015’ conference
James Woudhuysen is interviewed about future trends in retailing by Ron Pike, Promotions & Events Manager at Goodyear Dunlop, at the final session of the Goodyear Dunlop ‘State of the Nation 2015’ conference
Read the full article...Re-inventing the High Street
James Woudhuysen spoke on ‘Reinventing the High Street‘ at the Content, Customers & Communities in the Media Landscape conference, held at London’s Digital Catapult Centre, Dec 2014.
Read the full article...Innovative technologies in manufacturing
These short video presentations cover a range of innovations and new technologies within manufacturing, describing the opportunities for growth and development open to SMEs over the next 10 years. Sponsored by Epicor Software.
Read the full article...Seven reasons we should celebrate manufacturing
Commentators bemoaning the rise of ‘stuffocation’ miss the benefits manufacturing provides.
Read the full article...The Next Trend in Design
Given the alacrity with which design managers uphold and then forget about future trends, it’s worth asking: Where do such trends really come from?
Read the full article...Forecasting at Sage World 2010
Forecasting the future – Is it possible to forecast the future? If it is, then why is there such contemporary scepticism towards it?
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No 10 on #Shapps? 'Strong on media, sharp instincts, useful in the election'.
BUT former Army chief Richard Dannatt: Shapps “knows very little about defence”.
Since 2002, when BBC head Jon Birt was put i/c of rail futures, ignorance has been cool. Fab!http://on.ft.com/3PnJeuQ
A reminder that the brilliant British film written by the wonderful playwright Barrie Keefe and starring Bob Hopkins and Helen Mirren is on tonight @Film4 11.10 pm #BarrieKeeffe #HelenMirren #BobHoskins
Add EVs, heat pumps, and hydrogen electrolysers.
Good luck powering all of that with wind & solar.
Either you start building gas and nuclear power plants now, or we will once again bow to King Coal for the rescue.
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Innovators I like
Robert Furchgott – discovered that nitric oxide transmits signals within the human body
Barry Marshall – showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid
N Joseph Woodland – co-inventor of the barcode
Jocelyn Bell Burnell – she discovered the first radio pulsars
John Tyndall – the man who worked out why the sky was blue
Rosalind Franklin co-discovered the structure of DNA, with Crick and Watson
Rosalyn Sussman Yallow – development of radioimmunoassay (RIA), a method of quantifying minute amounts of biological substances in the body
Jonas Salk – discovery and development of the first successful polio vaccine
John Waterlow – discovered that lack of body potassium causes altitude sickness. First experiment: on himself
Werner Forssmann – the first man to insert a catheter into a human heart: his own
Bruce Bayer – scientist with Kodak whose invention of a colour filter array enabled digital imaging sensors to capture colour
Yuri Gagarin – first man in space. My piece of fandom: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/10421
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – inventor, with Robert Ledley, of the CAT scanner
Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone
George Devol – 'father of robotics’ who helped to revolutionise carmaking
Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire
Eugene Polley – TV remote controls