Derek is the President and Chief Futurist of The Futures Lab, a foresight consultancy he founded in 1996. In addition he is an assistant Prof in the ICT Dept of the Engineering and Science faculty at the University of Adger in Norway and an Adjunct Professor in the University of Houston Foresight program. Derek writes and speaks on a range of futures topics, particularly those relating to the impacts of future technologies on transformative societies, security and intelligent environments, policing, smart city development, future lifestyles and the changing human and the future of work.
He describes the processes that go into what he calls ‘The Art of Awe’ and explains in depth the process - ‘Think like a DJ’ and he tells us about the upcoming WFSF conference in Berlin in October 2021.
Interviewed by: Peter Hayward
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