A guide to the future

Ian Pearson, BT Futurologist

Click here for contact and personal details

Welcome to my view of the future. I hope you enjoy it and find it useful. The following articles cover a wide range of aspects of the future. Since I work in the telecomms industry, most are about the impacts that new technologies, and particularly IT, will change our business and personal lives. I have been known to respond favourably to requests for articles on particular subjects, so if you don’t find what you are looking for, drop me an email and I’ll consider your request.

The articles are posted here in an unpolished form and sorted alphabetically. The titles are mostly self explanatory, and most could be prefixed with ‘the future of …’. Some are new, some are quite old. Many are available online for the first time. In some occasions, attractive formatting has been lost while converting them for the web, but I haven’t had time or energy to fix the problems. I therefore hope that you are more interested in the content of the articles than their aesthetic appearance, and remember, they are free! I will add to this list as I write new content, and will add some of the more interesting documents from my past work as they cease to be commercially sensitive.

All of the documents on this site are free to download for your personal use, though you must ask permission before reproducing or distributing them in any form.

One of my roles is as a professional conference speaker. I do about 100 talks a year, many of which are keynotes at large conferences. If you would like to discuss the possibility of my speaking at your conference, I will be happy to discuss rates. My contact and other details are Here

 


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