David Staley

    David Staley is president of Columbus Futurists and a professor of history, design and educational studies at The Ohio State University. He is the host of CreativeMornings Columbus.

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    NEXT: Perpendicular Futures – The American Trabant

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    NEXT: Artificial Life

    While our attention has been transfixed on ChatGPT and other forms of artificial intelligence, lurking in the wings is another artificial entity that will...

    NEXT: Preposterous Futures – Tourniquetware

    Futurists often employ what is called a “futures cone” to visualize the possibilities of what might come. If the present is represented by a single...

    NEXT: Could Columbus be Redesigned as a Caring Community?

    I recently read the obituary of Donald Triplett who died at age 89. In 1938, Triplett was the first person diagnosed as autistic. Few people knew...

    NEXT: Olympic City…Or Do the Olympic Games Have a Future?

    On July 18, the Australian state of Victoria, home to the city of Melbourne, backed out of hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games. The Victoria organizers...

    NEXT: The Future of Happiness

    To commemorate this year’s July 4th Independence Day, I once again considered the Declaration of Independence, specifically that Thomas Jefferson identified our unalienable rights...

    NEXT: “The Columbus Model” On the Future of Housing

    What follows is not a prediction. It is a plausible scenario written in the form of a “history from the future.” This fictional history is...
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    NEXT: A Conversation with ChatGPT

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