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Happy Mondays - comments, hits, links & noise

Happy Monday to you all. Over the weekend there has been some interesting conversation on the last post re: positive vs. negative futures (see comments). The Futures Blog is now on Google and showing for its title, nice. Thanks to the Incredible Flying Car - the boys behind the new Virgin Mobile Big Brother UK Campaign (i.e. keep an eye on these cats) - for the link. And, finally, your mouthy scribe got a look in at the Media Guardian in a piece on forecast advertising spend (doc here, you need a login for the site copy).

Timo Veikkola (Nokia) @ PSFK

I am still annoyed that I missed the PSFK conference here in London recently, but at least I can watch the presentation from Timo Veikkola - Future Strategist at Nokia - as many times as I want (link below). The presentation is great on the current 'down-to-earth' movement in not only forecasting, but consultancy too. The other thing that stands out for me is the positive future he sees emerging. It is probably time for you to take a look, before I rabbit on anymore:

Now, I have some more questions about how this 'fantastic' future is actually going to come about, but the intention is something I am behind. You can't argue with positivity and the Future, as with our current condition, is so often painted with a negative brush (Richard Watson: Now and Next). It is easy to see things disappear, it is much harder to see what is replacing them.
(A big thank you to Lee McEwan for reminding me to blog about this.)