Art Credit: Brown Eyed Girls by Katty Smith My book, Reimagining Our Tomorrows: Making Sure Your Future Doesn’t SUCK, was released yesterday. Which also meant that yesterday marked the beginning of the REALLY BIG BOOK PROMOTION TOUR. To kick things off, I was invited to speak at an event on sustainable tourism at a […]
The Center for the Future of Museums recently launched their Future Fiction Challenge to encourage innovative thinking about the role of museums in the future of learning. I was asked, along with some amazing writers and futurists, to seed the challenge with example stories. What follows is my contribution. You can read all the stories […]
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,…” The opening of Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities is so often quoted, particularly to describe inflamed political discourse, that is has become almost cliche. But take a look at the rest of the passage and you discover that it perfectly expresses the […]
A good story has the power to entertain, inform and empower. All three elements are necessary if you want to change people’s attitudes or create action. The challenge we always face is how to find the right balance of each for your purpose and audience. The power of story to entertain is particularly important when […]
