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I never was, am always to be,
no-one has ever, or will yet meet me,
but I am the confidence of all
who live and breathe on this spinning ball.

This week’s edition starts with a riddle, and continues with an enigma: the future. We talk with professional futurists Craig Rispin and Glenys McLaughlin about looking into the crystal ball for a living. Later in the conversation we are joined by digital artist and designer Ian Gwilt who is working on a project for the UTS campus using Augmented Reality – a future mobile technology-enabled experience.

Novelist William Gibson said: “The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.” Futurists help organisations draw together the threads of today that will be woven to make the fabric of the future. They have a swag of techniques, from scenario planning to environmental scanning. These techniques help companies shape strategy by managing the risk of disruptive change.

“The primary technique of being a futurist is seeing the world with naive eyes,” says Rispin. Together we canvas the issues that are affecting companies and people as technology, globalisation and convergence accelerate.

Ian Gwilt is a digital artist and academic working on a project to create an augmented reality campus for UTS. By developing a database of what’s happening at the university, from lectures and library usage through to carbon emissions and events, and integrating it with geo-spatial technology and the capabilities of the smart phone, Ian’s project will create a multi-dimensional and rich experience of the campus.

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