Brian David Johnson – författare

Threatcasting uses input from social science, technical research, cultural history, economics, trends, expert interviews, and even a little science fiction to recognize future threats and design potential futures.

YOUR FUTURE STARTS NOWBy the time you reach the end of the book, I promise you will understand your Future You better than ever...you will be able to see yourself in the future you want and know the steps needed to get there.Brian David Johnson has spent a quarter century helping governments, schools, corporations, and small businesses shape the future—now, he wants to help you. In The Future You, Johnson distills his work as an applied futurist and gives readers the practical tools to craft the future they’ve always wanted. Offering a unique combination of practical guidance, interactive workbooks, and compelling real-life stories, The Future You empowers readers to break through the fear of uncertainty. Whether you want to find your new passion, switch your career, or make a personal change, fear holds so many of us captive and prevents us from taking the steps necessary to start now. You no longer have to just dream about a better future, you can turn those plans, those ideas, and those hopes into reality.

An explosive action-adventure novel created by will.i.am and renowned futurist Brian David Johnson.Wizards are real, robots from the future are here, and the fate of our world rests in the hands of one unsuspecting teenager.When a young man breaks into her home claiming her life is in danger, Ada Luring's world changes forever. Geller is a wizard, on the run from his father's hidden clan who want to kill Ada and her mother. Sara Luring is the scientist who will create the first robot, the wizards' age-old foes. But a robot has travelled back in time to find Ada, and will lay everything on the line to protect her, as she may just be the key to preventing the earth's destruction in the future. Ada, Geller and the robots must learn to work together to change the past and secure the future. But they don't have much time before a mysterious enemy launches its attack on Earth...

When companies develop a new technology, do they ask how it might affect the people who will actually use it? That, more or less, sums up Brian David Johnson's duties as Intel's futurist-in-residence. In this fascinating book, Johnson provides a collection of science fiction prototyping stories that attempt to answer the question. These stories focus on the same theme: scientists and thinkers exploring personal robotics as a new form of artificial intelligence. This isn't fanciful speculation. Johnson's stories are based on Intel's futurecasting research, which uses ethnographic field studies, technology research, trend data, and science fiction to develop a pragmatic vision of consumers and computing. Nebulous Mechanisms presents science fiction designed to bring about science fact. Get real insight into technology and the future with this book. It will open your eyes.

The only book you need on AI - full of facts for curious kids and easy explanations for confused adults!What actually is Artificial Intelligence? Will it take over the world? And one day, will it tidy our bedrooms . . .? In this beginner's guide, discover everything you need to know about AI, from how it helps us discover epic stuff up in space or under the sea to whether it might help you build your own dinosaur.With AI expert and futurist Brian David Johnson, understand what AI is, where it came from, the incredible ways it's being used today and how it might shape and reimagine our future. With amazing facts, myth busters and insight from experts around the world, this is the perfect beginner's guide to navigating the new world of AI.This book offers a balanced, expert and accessible insight into the biggest topic of our time. Designed with fun illustrations throughout.

This book provides readers with essential toolkit and real-world examples of predictive models developed for strategic planning purposes. This book explores all aspect of futurecasting, a field that generates actionable data for businesses and organizations to deploy in their internal strategizing. By extrapolating data on past and current large-scale trends in a given industry or operating sector, entities can effectively learn to prepare and weather or even thrive, through certain likely future scenarios. This book also explains how users can revisit past models to discern landmarks that point toward progress along a certain predicted future, allowing them to benefit from ongoing analysis of the model as events unfold. This book utilizes real-world case studies and exercises that teach readers how futurecasting works and empower them to use it themselves. This book provides readers their teams, and their organizations with effective frameworks, tools, skills, and practices that help to remove some of the mystery and unpredictability that naturally comes with analyzing future events.