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Turning Impossible into Breakthrough

What Israel’s difficulties can teach us about the tech industry, reinvention, relevance, and near impossible breakthroughs.Cyber Horse on Display at Tel Aviv University (Pavel Brodsky/Unsplash)

Israeli innovation focuses on critical segments where it has a competitive advantage and the stakes are high.

In the coming years, expect continued breakthroughs from Israel in the following frontier technologies:Artificial intelligence:

Despite lacking the scale and data of the Chinese BATs (Baidu, Alibaba,...

Innovation starts when you fall off the edge of the playground

How a country of less than 10 million holds the “secret sauce” in competitive advantage and frontier technologies.

On the back of a visit to Israel, I had the honor of presenting to the Foresight Institute in San Francisco on how this tiny country of less than 10 million achieves global relevance in so many fields. I’ve distilled my key takeaways into two parts:

Israel’s “secret sauce” for turning adversity into competitive advantage.Israel’s frontier technologies — how it will continue to remain ...

The Future is Close, and being Prototyped

Roger Spitz (Disruptive Futures Institute) Keynote Talk for Singularity University

Over the past few months, universities, think tanks, and organizations worldwide have asked me to share my views on emerging trends. I have been flooded with powerful feedback on how these important topics resonate: from the future of humanity and our relationship with Artificial Intelligence to learning/unlearning/relearning, and to how our current unexpected reset presents a unique opportunity for change while cr...

Brazil Tomorrow: Could Chaos be a Driver for Transformation?

In the second part of my interview with Lidia Zuin for Brazil’s TAB UOL, I highlight how Brazil offers clues into the future of innovation and leadership. In the first part, I shared insights on navigating complexity and disruption, and Science Fiction’s dent on business ecosystems.

Illustration: Johannes Fuchs for Disruptive Futures Institute

Lidia: How are you connected to Brazil and what insights do you have about the country and its future?

Roger: In the past two decades I’ve visited Brazil ove...

What Happens When Science Fiction Moves to Science Fact?

When chaos drives innovation — extracted from a two-part interview originally featured in Brazil’s TAB UOL

Illustration: Johannes Fuchs for Disruptive Futures Institute

“To remain relevant, humans must become increasingly Anticipatory and Antifragile, with Agility.”  — Roger Spitz, Journal of Futures Studies, July 2020

In a recent interview with Brazil’s TAB UOL, I explained how to navigate two seemingly opposing forces in today’s accelerating shifting paradigms: short-term vs. long-term decision ma...