✍🏼 Essays
🧠 In just 20 years artificial intelligence could dramatically reshape our world
With every future we wish to create, we must first learn to imagine it.Imagination is the basis of any human creative process, including technological development: before creating any invention it's first necessary to understand a need or a problem, then imagine...
🌅 Obama should feel more hope
It was a sunny, but cold New Hampshire day. After more than one hour of standing still outside, it felt really cold. I was waiting to see Senator Barack Obama at Concord High School. It was January 4, 2008.But the cold feet were soon forgotten when Obama started to...
🔋 Northvolt and the benefit of understanding the future
Peter Carlsson was Head of Sourcing at Swedish-Japanese Sony Ericsson. You know, back when Ericsson was making mobile phones. I had one of these.He did an excellent job, so companies on the U.S. west coast sought his services. Among them was Apple, who offered him a...
🧮 Facit and the peril of not understanding the future
In the summer of 1966, Pelé walked the streets of Åtvidaberg, a tiny Swedish town with just 7,000 inhabitants. How did the world's best football player of all time end up spending three weeks here, right next to the middle of nowhere?The Brazilian...
