Peoples & Things

Trend Forecasting and the Business of the Future

Jan 21, 2023
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
2
Sparks and Honey - What Are You Trying to Do With It?
03:07 • 2min
3
What Kind of Company Hires These Types of Futures Firms?
05:19 • 3min
4
What Is a Trend?
08:07 • 2min
5
Is There Something Particularly Modern About Trends?
10:02 • 4min
6
What Kind of Music Did You Write Criticism About When You Were a Critic?
14:05 • 2min
7
How Did You Get Up to Do the Research for This Book?
15:57 • 2min
8
The Trend Forecasting Industry - Where Did It Come From?
18:23 • 2min
9
The Rise of Cool Hunting and Cool Hunters
20:01 • 3min
10
Are They Predicting the Future?
23:08 • 3min
11
Is Economic Thought an Engine, Not a Camera?
26:15 • 2min
12
Isn't She Wrong?
28:08 • 2min
13
What's Happened to the Pandemic?
29:39 • 3min
14
Pandemic Equity Sustainability?
33:07 • 2min
15
Globalization
35:05 • 2min
16
Is There a Global Middle Class in Trend Forecasting?
37:31 • 4min
17
Is Afrofuturism a Paradigm for Talking About the Future?
41:35 • 2min
18
The Power of Futures
44:03 • 2min
19
Is There Still Power in the Abstract?
46:24 • 3min
20
The Future of Trend Journalism
49:02 • 2min
21
What's Next for You?
50:42 • 3min
22
Are You a Contrarian Optimist?
53:16 • 3min