What if GPS didn't need satellites? Last July an Australian Navy ship navigated for 144 hours, accurate to within metres, without asking any satellite where it was. It worked it out by reading the shape of Earth's gravity field. Quantum sensing on working ships. Quietly. buff.ly/HRdWSwV

🐴 The future is a Trojan horse. It sneaks past the defenses — ideas that would be blocked at the gate walk in dressed as speculation. But the conditions for that to happen don't just happen. They have to be designed. Process. Materials. Space. Facilitation. Who's in the room. buff.ly/38T9rvi

Harvest Now, Decrypt Later. A line I keep hearing in security circles. Copy encrypted data today, freeze it, wait for quantum to read it. The interesting question isn't when the machine arrives, but what the anticipation of it is already doing to investment, sovereignty, etc. buff.ly/3ACOgFT

🎭 How much of past, present and future power relationships can we come to know through our bodies? Spent this morning in Frederick van Amstel's Theatre of the Techno-Oppressed workshop at UHasselt. One person's utopia is another's dystopia. Bodies in a room notice it first. buff.ly/9T2Izns

Most strategy work — foresight, visioning, concept development — gets bought as a project. Fixed scope, fixed cast, fixed deadline. Treat the drift it generates as scope creep and you produce a clean deliverable and a dirty result. Treat it as resilient project design instead. buff.ly/toeWC5H

🌀 #PolyFutures in Brussels asked a key question: what happens when foresight, design and behavioural insights start working as one practice, shaping how policies are prioritised, designed, reviewed? 2 days of keynotes and workshops showing: quite a lot. 🙏 to the EU Policy Lab team. buff.ly/GRvO79R

A horizon scan that doesn't start with tech, but with people who'll have to live with it. Our former colleague Emiel Rijshouwer just dropped Horizonscan 2055 for STT — built on citizens deliberating online + in scenario workshops. buff.ly/BJxTUxi

The interesting thing about long-duration blackouts isn't the blackout — it's what falls over in the second and third order. The supplier with its "own" diesel. The comms channel that needs a data centre that needs cooling. Day three is a different conversation. www.linkedin.com/posts/pantop...

🚷 "Let's not talk about that here." Every foresight practitioner knows the sentence. A glance across the table. A quick subject change. A polite "let's keep this constructive." And every time it lands, the future just got a little smaller. buff.ly/0pr5Vv5

In 2014 we put a fake startup on a real trade fair floor, selling a tiny device that quieted your phone and told the room you were in the zone. A decade later it's a whole product category. We weren't predicting it. We were making a question you could walk up to and switch on. buff.ly/MhZNzuL

We built AI-generated short films set in 2040 for the ILO’s global child labour conference — narrated by people living inside five different futures. Not to predict, but to make 200 decision-makers feel what’s shifting before they could look away. buff.ly/pJYi0aW

Some shocks close things down. Others open them. The cold shower, Jane Jacobs, Rosa Parks, the flood that finally moves policy. What makes the difference between a shock that destroys and one that creates? buff.ly/ZSKMs8n

A client in the tech realm once told me, after a scenario exercise with people from outside his field: “Apparently not everybody thinks about it the way we do. And now I can’t unthink that.” That’s foresight. Not answers — better questions. buff.ly/Srme8gI

Virginia Tassinari and Eduardo Staszowski’s new book "(Designing) Beyond the Modern" asks whether design — born within modernity’s extractive logic — can be the thing that helps us move past it. Or do we need a rupture first? I’m biased, but this one stays with you. www.linkedin.com/posts/nikbae...

The Overton window opens in crises. But too often we step sideways — one dominant energy logic swapped for another. The real work is cultivating imagination before the moment arrives. www.linkedin.com/posts/nikbae...

Pokémon Go players unknowingly mapped sidewalks for delivery robots. CAPTCHAs digitised Google's books. Garbage trucks now detect potholes. Same pattern: harvesting wasted cycles. But who captures that value? What if it fed the commons instead of private companies?

2 years of ShockBox sessions across Dutch public sector organisations. A familiar pattern: when unfamiliar shocks hit, many orgs go blind fast. Not enough backup power, no fallback comms, lacking playbooks. Plans ≠ muscle memory. But the leverage points exist — if you look for them together.

Surgeons have performed the first fully robotic heart transplant in the U.S., using advanced robotic tools to avoid opening the chest. neurosciencenews.com/robotic-hear...

New method can teach AI to admit uncertainty. In other words, it finally learns to say "I don't know" techxplore.com/news/2025-06...

‘A timebomb’: could a French mine full of waste poison the drinking water of millions? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Publishers facing existential threat from AI, Cloudflare CEO says www.axios.com/2025/06/19/a...

News from the #regenerativemedicine front ... Axolotl Discovery Brings Us Closer Than Ever to Regrowing Human Limbs www.sciencealert.com/axolotl-disc...

Infrared contact lenses allow people to see in the dark, even with their eyes closed phys.org/news/2025-05...

New quantum-based navigation tech beats GPS precision by 50 times interestingengineering.com/innovation/a...

👇been hammering on the language/cultural myopia of LLM’s for years. With language comes culture, worldviews, epistemologies, …

Helps to contextualize the meaning of 'fine' ... proton.me/blog/big-tec...

💭How can we drive transformative change in agrifood systems? IIPP delivered a groundbreaking Applied Learning workshop to the UN @fao.org to equip their staff with tools and methodologies to drive transformative change. 🔗Read more here: https://buff.ly/3VJbz1l

And not just in the humanities …

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NORWAY: “Despite winding back some tax benefits, EVs accounted for 94% of new car sales in October — almost 2x China’s rate — putting the country within reach of a goal to stop adding combustion engines next year.” Norway is on the cusp of an all-EV car market. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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Denmark will plant 1 billion trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest