Mini Trip report: London

En route from Athens to Washington I stopped off in London to welcome the new Chair of the UK Node of The Millennium Project – Rohit Talwar, CEO of FastFutures and launch the 2013-14 State of the Future with the London Futurists Meet-up lead by David Wood. Martin Rhisiart, will stay on as Co-chair with special attention to Whales and John Francis, will co-chair for Scotland. While in London, I also met with Terrence Jagger, head of Crown Agents about adding futures concepts and methods to their international leadership training programs and potential collaboration on creating national collective intelligence systems similar to the work The Millennium Project is doing in Egypt (based on the Global Futures System at www.themp.org). I also meet with Catherine (Cat) Tully of the School of International Futures, Tony Diggle (who reviewed a previous State of the Future for Long-Range Planning), and Shirin Elahi of Scenarios Architecture Ltd. who will also help develop the UK Node.

Now to complete the round-the-world promotional tour for the 2013-14 State of the Future, I am heading back to Washington, D.C. Feedback from Silicon Valley, Korea (Seoul and Daegu), Greece (Thessaloniki and Athens), and London is that the smaller book size is better, the info graphics are a great addition, the text is the best so far, and we have to get it out to the attention of general readers beyond the usual futurists. Reviews of the 2013-14 State of the Future will be coming out in Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Futures, Foresight, The Futurist, and some other articles have been done by Jose Cordeiro in Venezuela and Fernando Ortega in Peru. If you do write something, please let me know.

All the best,

Jerome C. Glenn, CEO