CGSR Seminar Series | A Map with No Edges: Ramifications of Future Operating Environments

Richard Lum is an academically trained futurist and chief executive of Vision Foresight Strategy LLC (VFS), a foresight and strategic analysis firm based in Honolulu. He has conducted foresight and strategy work on projects for organizations such as U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, U.S. Special Operations Command, the European Commission, the UK government, the Canadian government, the Singaporean government, NASA, and PepsiCo. Mr. Lum is the author of 4 Steps to the Future: A Quick and Clean Guide to Creating Foresight and his contributions were featured in the books Thinking about the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight (2006), A Careful Revolution (2019), Rethinking Asia 7: The Future of Work (2020), and Strategic Latency Unleashed: A SOF Perspective (2020, forthcoming). He has been published in the Journal of Futures Studies, the journal Futures, International Journal of System of Systems Engineering, World Future Review, and Small Wars Journal. Richard is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the futures studies program at the University of Hawaii. His dissertation research focused on developing a conceptual framework for designing future governance systems.

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[dannyferguson]

The "expanding cone of future possibility's" is entirely contingent on avoiding nuclear winter.
Therefore reducing the probability of such an event should be a given prerequisite for any future speculation.

[jacobeller]

¿Yeah, but won't the operational environment change as these processes are implemented?

I wasn't clear on how the process will evolve as the environment changes...from the perspective of "entropy" if you will.

[lorenzoo]

I tried to get a job at the AIIB bank one day cuz I was bored but all positions were filled lol