This edition of Simon Reads is inspired by this week’s episode of The Future With Friends, where we explored the future of power – who holds it, how it shifts, and what it means for the world ahead. From Ben Elton’s eco-satire This Other Eden, to Douglas Rushkoff’s nonfiction Survival of the Richest, and Zoë
Welcome to this week’s edition of Simon Sees! This week, our signal inspiration comes from the latest episode of The Future With Friends – “The Future of Deep Connection”, where I sat down with Michael Schiffner to explore what it truly takes to create deep human connection. Michael’s beautifully imagined scenario takes
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
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How scenario planning can be used to align thinking, stimulate ideas and overcome the inertia of uncertainty.
