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Simon Sees: The Future of Immigration

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

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Simon Sees: The Future of Meeting Strangers

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

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Simon Sees: The Future of Doing Risky Things

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

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Simon Reflects: Looking Back at the Future

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.

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Simon Sees: The Future of Meaningful

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

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Simon Sees: The Future of Continuity

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

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Future of Work
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The Future is Live

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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Simon Sees: The Future of Acting

Welcome to this week’s edition of Simon Sees! This edition was sparked by our latest Future With Friends podcast episode with the incredible Megan Davis, where we explored ‘The Future of Acting’. But, as these conversations tend to do, we found ourselves diving much deeper—into the role creativity plays in

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Simon Sees: The Future of The Past

Welcome to this week’s edition of Simon Sees! This week’s Simon Sees is inspired by our latest Future With Friends episode, “The Future of The Past“, with the ever-thoughtful Mykel Dixon — a rich conversation on ancient wisdom, creative expression, and reconnecting with the childlike intuition we often lose. We kick off with new research

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