Issues and Uncertainties
What will the Internet be like in 2025 and what forces and uncertainties will shape its path? "The Evolving Internet," a joint report from Cisco and GBN, presents four divergent, yet plausible, scenarios for the future of the Internet and examines the implications for both business models and policy choices.
GBN-Rockefeller Foundation scenarios on technology and development; co-president Andrew Blau considers media's future; Lynn Carruthers's visual practice; a Network roundtable on big surprises in the last decade--and the next, and more...
Co-founder Stewart Brand's new book-manifesto, Rob Carlson on biotech, the future of the U.S. from multiple angles, the GBN Book Club and more...
"GBN in Conversation" brings together members of the GBN Network with senior GBN practitioners for a live conversation about the issues and forces shaping the future. Recorded before a live audience at GBN's San Francisco office, these conversations are now available as podcasts.
GBN in Conversation with co-founder Stewart Brand—author of Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
Wired magazine's editor-in-chief, in coversation with GBN cofounder Peter Schwartz, explores how digital technologies and the economics of abundance make it cheaper and wiser for many businesses to simply give things away. (July 2009)
Pandemics, the Future of Central America, millennials on museums, from scenarios to innovation, an other-wordly interview with Esther Dyson, Stewart Brand's "Talk" Club, and more...
GBN in Conversation with the IMF's Charles Collyns and Peter Dattels, hosted by Steven Weber, on "The Future of the Global Economy," April 30, 2009.
Addressing climate change will require U.S.-China collaboration and engagement, in terms of both policy and action. This report's recommendations were vetted at a GBN workshop with contributions from members of our network.
Taking Advantage of Tumultuous Times; GBN's new launch simulator; the futures of Amsterdam and Morocco; interview with water expert Peter Gleick; and more...
The Fall 2008 GBN Bulletin features scenarios of the financial crisis and of East Africa; what is art?; brain science and organizations; emerging industries, Network news, the GBN Book Club, and more...
The Summer 2008 GBN Bulletin features the future of healthcare, AIDS, Chicago; Ferguson debates Schwartz; recessionary times; the millennials, the Colbert Report, Network News, the GBN Book Club, and more...
The Winter 2008 GBN Bulletin features climate change; the future of music, digital China; Network news, the GBN Book Club, and more...
GBN in Conversation with Clay Shirky—author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations—on how and why new communications tools are enabling newfound conversation and coordinated action at little or no cost. (April 22, 2008)
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This GBN white paper offers an alternative analytic approach to understanding climate change disruptions, and a new way to both anticipate and imagine potential impacts of climate change.
GBN in Conversation with NYU sociologist Dalton Conley and GBN co-president Andrew Blau on "The Elsewhere Society."
This new report from our colleagues at The Monitor Institute explores the emergence of impact investing and how it might evolve as a potent force for addressing global challenges.
GBN in Conversation with GBN cofounder Peter Schwartz and U.C. Berkeley political scientist Steven Weber on "The Obama Presidency: The First 100 Days…The Next Four Years"
Despite the uncertainties surrounding climate change, businesses can and must act now; this summary from a June GBN/Monitor Group workshop suggests how to make climate change a competitive and adaptive advantage.
The Earth is rapidly becoming a “city planet,” with dramatic, often counter-intuitive, implications for demography, economies, cultures, and the environment, according to GBN cofounder Stewart Brand in this strategy + business article.
Visionary perspectives on the future, culminating in an optimistic scenario. Commissioned by the SCI FI Channel, with a foreward by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Four scenarios, developed with the Arctic Council’s Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment group, contemplate the wide-ranging effects that continued climate change could have on Arctic waterways in the future.
This GBN report examines the dramatic changes that the field of independent media is experiencing and how the reverberations will be felt across every organization that uses media to communicate, connect, and create.
A Flash animation narrated by GBN CEO Eamonn Kelly, exploring 10 trends that are creating, even transforming, our future
Report of a GBN meeting on the drivers and themes that are shaping the environment in which branding will unfold, and the tools and approaches to branding and brands that might prevail in the future.
Report of a GBN meeting on how today’s emerging cultural changes may shape the global business environment of the future
Report of a GBN meeting on whether China will be a global rule maker or rule taker in the decade ahead, and how either—or both—roles might unfold?
Wired magazine's editor-in-chief talks to GBN about his theory of infinite niche markets, and why weak-signal detection and statistics are the power tools of the future.
In a world of growing uncertainty and complexity, leadership is more important—and more paradoxical--than ever before.
A multi-stakeholder scenario planning project on the long-term value outlook of the global pharmaceutical industry
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Steve Barnett
GBN Network
Anthropologist specializing in consumer research and trends, branding, and strategy; CEO, BardoConsulting; radio show host; former strategist with OgilvyOne, Citibank, and Nissan