Foresight Agency
Politics
11 posts
COVID19 PUSHES A RELUCTANT JAPAN TOWARDS THEÂ FUTURE
Visitors often marvel at how the old and new so readily co-exist in Japan. The land of futuristic infrastructure, architectural marvels and robotic pets is also one where fax machines…
WTF IS HAPPENING INÂ ARMENIA?
I can’t believe I am writing yet another article about the tragedies happening in my beloved countries. You see, I have two identities, two nationalities, two home countries; I call…
A PHOENIX LIKE SITUATION
In mythology the phoenix is a bird that has the ability to immolate itself when it is close to dying, from the fire an egg is spawned and with the…
THE WEST WILL BLEED — FOR ITS VAGUE VIEW ON CHINA’S BUSINESS POWER
WITH TEN PIECES OF ADVICE TO DO BUSINESS IN THE NEWÂ CHINA When Tim Cook, boss of Apple, was in Beijing and wanted to pay his Starbucks coffee with Apple Pay,…
You are a Dog
In the early years of the Internet the New Yorker published a cartoon with two dogs in front of a computer. ‘On the Internet nobody knows you are a dog’,…
Dilemmas and Drones
Governance should be all about being future oriented. A substantial amount of future-literacy is helpful then, though generally speaking this competence is not very institutionalized in politics and government. As…