Off to Hong Kong

I am off to Hong Kong tomorrow to deliver the keynote speech at the 9th Asia Pacific Knowledge Management Conference. My presentation about the implementation and benefits of enterprise prediction markets will be followed by an afternoon workshop.
Update: Picture of myself conducting a prediction market workshop at the City University of Hong Kong. Participants traded [...]

The Most Heeded Futurists

Nice quote about prediction markets in The Economist’s current special issue titled The World in 2008. In an article about how futurologists have lost their cachet in the new century – too many new technologies colliding to create kaleïdoscopic uncertainty – the author encourages reliance on collective forecasts rather than individual foresight:
“The most heeded futurists [...]