I keep getting asked about good sources for trends and futures thinking so here’s a little list (actually not that little). BTW, this is very anglo-centric, but so am I.
Newspapers
Financial Times (Weekend edition)
New York Times
The Guardian
Nikkei Weekly (Japan)
The Week (OK, it’s a magazine)
Magazines
Harvard Business Review
Rotman magazine (Canada)
Strategy + Business (US)
Economist
McKinsey Quarerly
Future Orientation (Denmark),
Wired
The Futurist
Fast Company
Foreign Policy
Harper’s
The Atlantic
New Scientist
Prospect
Popular Science
Psychology Today
RSA Journal
Time (sometimes)
Websites
Salon
Slate
Demos
Institute of Ideas
Shaping Tomorrow
Spiked Online
BBC
Goldman Sachs
PEW Internet
Wordspy
GBN
Blogs/newsletters
John Williams (Williams Inference)
Ross Dawson
Innovation Watch
Future Feeder
OK, so what have I missed????? BTW, there are also books but these are listed on the nowandnext website under links/bookshelf.
Thanks for sharing that: I hadn’t come across any of the blogs that you mentioned.
Two of my favourites are Kevin Kelly (kk.org) and a local one here in Ireland: the Geary Behavioural Economics Blog. I like the latter because it explores the application of behavioural economics to wider social trends – something I think we’re going to see a lot more of in the future.
Keep up the posting!
Thanks a lot for the list
Some of the sources I use for inspiration:
trendwatching.com – very entertaining source of the current trends/fads
trendcentral.com – similar to the above – new product / technology developments
springwise.com – some novel entrepreneur ideas
Cheers
I’ve missed some good ones…
Political risk – see Eurasia group http://www.eurasiagroup.net/
Energy – see PFC energy http://www.pfcenergy.com/
Also Shaping Tomorrow http://www.shapingtomorrow.com/
And Future Scanner http://memebox.com/futurescanner