Future: March 2006 Archives

I have blogged about FutureMonitor before, but I continue to be impressed by the content posted and the editorial care that Chris Meyer and his team are taking to make the site valuable.  Since I am particularly interested in Trend Scanning, one of the sections that I recommend is the bibliography of Articles and Reports on discerning trends.  The discussions are also beginning to generate a lot of paricipation and comments, making for interesting moderated conversations.

In an email today, Chris mentioned that the site has entered a public beta and that new content is being added regularly.

FutureMonitor is a new platform for discussing the future.  Chris Meyer and his colleagues at Monitor Networks and the Financial Times  have designed a compelling new site that aims to capture insight about the near-term future.  By near-term future, they mean trends that will matter most to business in the next two years.  The team is very ambitious; they want the collaboration to be... "the primary source of insight into the future, generated through on line conversations with people who are shaping the future every day".

So far, a small number of users are contributing to the site and posting on a small number of example topics that have business implications.  As the site opens up to more discussion and a wider variety of views, it will become much more interesting.  Right now, I am participating in a conversation on who owns the content that one posts on collaborative web sites like Flickr or del.icio.us.