Futurist Trivia: The Sunday Times

People often ask me where I get my ideas as a writer.  The companion question as a futurist is "how do you study the future?"  The answer, of course, is you study "now" and you study the past.  Then you think a bit.  Futurists aren't predictors partly because we can't see the wildcards or the unexpected things – most of us missed the internet at first, and then "got it" before a lot of other people did.  Except the geeks – who missed the amount of marketing money that would go into it but...