Previous posts in this series Reflecting back on the 2021 scenarios, it’s clear that the future is never clear. We like to think of change having a beginning and an end, but it almost always exists as part of a bigger continuum. Framing it with a neat beginning, middle, and
Welcome to this week’s edition of Simon Sees! This week was inspired by our latest Future With Friends episode – “The Future of Community” with Stef Koster, recorded live at CoCo Place in Mornington. In it, Stef imagines a future where local sporting clubs collapse after funding shifts to major city events. What follows is
Welcome to this week’s edition of Simon Sees! This week was inspired by our latest Future With Friends episode – “The Future of Immigration” with Anton van der Walt. What flows on from Anton’s scenario is a heartfelt conversation about immigration, belonging, and the future of cultural integration. Watch or listen
Welcome to this week’s edition of Simon Sees! This edition was sparked by our latest Future With Friends episode with the effervescent Anneli Blundell, where we explored ‘The Future of Meeting Strangers’. Together, we reflected on how human connection is shifting – and what we might be losing when opting out of discomfort
In 2021 I wrote a series of scenarios looking at the long-term impact of Covid on how and where people will be working from in 2025. And so now 2025 is here, I’m revisiting the scenarios to assess what they got right, what they got wrong, and perhaps most importantly,
Welcome to this week’s edition of Simon Sees! This edition was sparked by our latest Future With Friends episode with the brilliant Leanne Williams, where we explored The Future of Doing Risky Things. Together, we discussed how risk aversion is showing up in leadership, workplaces, and culture — and what it might cost us if we
In late-2021, I wrote a series of scenarios to explore how remote and hybrid work might evolve through to 2025. At the time, uncertainty as to how and where people would be working from in the future was one of the most pressing questions that business leaders were grappling with.
Welcome to this week’s edition of Simon Sees! This edition was sparked by our latest Future With Friends episode with the wonderful Lizzie Davidson, where we explored ‘The Future of Meaningful’. Together we unpacked how meaning and connection might shape a post-reset world—one where community matters more than consumption. In this round of
Welcome to this week’s edition of Simon Sees! This one was sparked by our latest Future With Friends podcast, where I teamed up with the wizard himself, Dr Jason Fox, to explore ‘The Future of Continuity.’ Jason crafted a two-part scenario for the future, and we’ve turned it into a special double feature podcast
Have you ever had that feeling of knowing exactly what’s going to happen next? That you’ve somehow tapped into the universe at a deeper level? That happened for me back in 2016 when I caught a glimpse of the future of keynote speaking. What I saw was a future not
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