future-thoughts

Sep 14, 2005 at 22:26 o\clock

Clem Sunter

Mood: upbeat
Listening to: cars pass in the street

I just heard an amazing talk by the former head of AngloAmerican, Clem Sunter.  A great, if not unusual stroyteller, he's an entertaining and clearly gifted man.

He basically predicts the future of business or whatever by thinking up scenarios and then attaching a probability of them happening to them.  So he thinks of the future but lives very much in the present.

Herein lies the rub.  Upon review I realised that my first entry to this blog sounds mighty pretentious, although it's not meant to be.  There are parallels between what I said and what this chap does.  He predicts events that can either be, or not be a reality of the future.  The future reality created in his head is very much alive and very much as real as what is happening outside today.  It leaves an impression, or 'footprint' if you will on his mind.  After all, he can remember these scenarious even though they have not happened, and most never will occur, being replaced by another 'reality'.

I am not really sure how to go about making this sound like sense, but somewhere in there is an idea, or concept, or something that will reveal itself in due course.

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