Futures Group

We use public resources for our research. A quick and dirty list of where we get the rawer stuff to work on.

(a) Day to day readings come mainly from RSS feeds, GIC/Citibank etc reports, horizon scans and foreign newspapers and magazines. We break the list into rough domains below.

(b) We go overseas several times a year to ‘future-y’ seminars, or in emerging markets, to seminars that give a glimpse of the rapid changes in their home markets.

What other resources do you use? Which ones below suck and I shouldn’t bother? Share with me?

(a) Day to Day readings

China/India/Russia/ASEAN – All Roads Lead To China , China Briefing, China Financial Markets, China Internet, Economist China, India Briefing, James Fallows of Atlantic Monthly, Shanghaied Blog, Russia Blog, Edge Malaysia, Lexean, Time China, Virtual China

Cities stuff – CEOS for Cities, Creative Classes, Tyler Brule on FT, Global Culture, Hub Culture

Economy/Enterprise stuff – Harvard Business Review, DB Research, HBS Working Knowledge, McKinsey Innovation, Morgan Stanley Economic Forum, GIC daily reports, Nouriel Roubini, Paul Graham, Risk Watchdog, Debt Watch, Baseline Scenario, McKinsey quarterly

Futurists – Institute of the Future, the Long Now, Next Big Future, Open the Future by Jamais Cascio, Worldchanging

Global/Geopol stuff - Brookings, Carnegie Endowment, Limes Italia, Thomas PM Barnett

Media, People & Practices – Henry Jenkins at MIT, Digital Ethnography, Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky, trend watching

Scandinavia/Europa – Arctic Startup

Tools & Technologies – O’Reilly’s Conferences, O’Reilly’s Radar, SEED, New Scientist

Youth Culture - B-side , China Youth Watch, PSFK

Videos of extraordinary ideas and people- TED, Poptech, Make TV, Carnegie,

(b) Seminars, conferences – there’s a core set that we try our best to attend, and a satellite of minor conferences we try out.