1. The document discusses various topics related to the future including innovation, technology, automation, attention, and more. It raises questions about how certain jobs and industries may change and provides perspectives on cultivating openness and flexibility amid uncertainty. 2. Several sections examine challenges of increased connectivity and digital life, noting how multitasking and constant distraction can influence brain development and priorities. Issues of control over personal attention and boundaries are also addressed. 3. Advice includes thinking beyond single paths or boxes, cultivating principles and character over chasing plans or profits, considering implications of both change and tradition, and making room for calm amid ongoing disruption.

1. Design
at the
center.
davidzach.com
linked in
@DavidZach
Court jester
not
fortune teller.
A thought-
provoking
entertainer.
Sit around
& read.
Write too.
New
&
old.
1. Thinking like a futurist.
a. Be wary of “futurists.”
b. Change ≠ Progress.
c. Old ≠ outdated.
d. Think implications x 3.
e. Conversations.
f. Philosophy > plans.
Profit/prophet motive?
Choices: change vs. tradition.
Futuristic: future value.
Seduced by the next implication.
Redefine the terms of the debate.
Becoming like gods ...
2. Protecting your attention.
Play with fads,
Work with trends,
Live by principles.
Your value
follows your
attention.

2. 1. Everything gets to talk.
2. The Internet of things.
a. Insurance?
b. Inspections?
c. Tools?
d. Buildings?
3. The future will be printed.

3. 3. The future will be printed. 3. Will the future be printed?
4. The timeline of innovation. 4. The timeline of innovation.

4. 5. Redesigning reality x 3.
Work on a computer?
txt > f2f: s/s
7. The assault on attention.
Majority of 18-25 y.o.
admit: txt while driving.
13-17: 1742 txt mssg/mth. Nicholas Carr, The Shallows:
Intensive multitaskers are
“suckers for irrelevancy,” says
Clifford Nass, one professor
who did the research.
“Everything distracts them.”
Mersenich offers an even
bleaker assessment: As we
multitask online, we are
“training our brains to pay
attention to the crap.”
Multiatsking..
Silence?
First we shape our tools, and then ...
Marshall McLuhan

5. 1. What if the Future’s a jerk?
a. Sold: distracting, prepackaged future.
b.What are we being distracted from?
c. How different will it be: alt/future?
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2. Think outside the box.
3
2. Think into other boxes.
3
Aging Social
media
MoneyAugmentation

6. 3
Energy
Youth
culture
Nanotech
Automation
3
Realtor Virtual
Designer
3D PrinterArtist
3
Citizenship
Appropriate
housing
Entrepreneur
Maker
culture
Bottom line [practical]
Best practices: Think Open source: T h i n k
Hierarchy [f2f] Collaborative networks [s/s]
Horizon [potential]
Open-minded [us]
Tradition [build upon past] Future [leave past behind]
Pursuit of ... [work & life]
Credentials [singular path]
Close-minded [them]
Promise of ... [worklife]
Smarts [many paths & bypass]
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3. The clash of innovations.
Logistics Design
Counting CreatingWhich
side
works
for you?

7. Elegance
&
eloquence.
Marshall
McLuhan
Technology ... art.
5. Can realtors be automated?
a. What can you do that cannot be automated?
b. Is anyone going to pay you to do that?
c. Is it legal for them to pay you to do that?
d. What can you finally do that you want to do?
e. What should you finally stop doing?
80/20
Elegance
&
eloquence.
Marshall
McLuhan
Technology ... art.
5. Can realtors be automated?
a. What can you do that cannot be automated?
b. Is anyone going to pay you to do that?
c. Is it legal for them to pay you to do that?
d. What can you finally do that you want to do?
e. What should you finally stop doing?
80/20
6. Creative futures.
c. Comfortable attention.
d. Customers = Coworkers.
boundaries.
a. Unlimited choices.
b. Loss of boundaries.boundaries.boundaries.boundaries.boundaries.boundaries.

8. 1. Start smoking.
a. Tolstoy.
b. Strangers.
2. Start drinking.
a. KFC research.
b. Break bread;
break barriers.
a. Everyone is freaking out.
b. Let us not look ...
c. Spoils to the distractors.
d. Foundations & intentions.
A place from which one’s strength of character is drawn.
A place in which we know exactly who we are.
The place from which we speak our deepest beliefs.
3. Retreat Querencia. 4. Small & many > Big & few.
Kickstarter.com
Small ideas are as
important as big ideas.
ID Lt. Gov. Brad Little

9. 5. The freedom to fail.
Lambent Shopping Trolley
6. Your most
valuable
resource.
a. A.D.O.S.
b. Hyperliving.
c. Calm, silence, repose.
d. Closing your mind.
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