Beyond Flying Cars And Futurist Myths With Nick Foster – This Week’s Thinking With Mitch Joel Conversation

Episode #1009 of Thinking With Mitch Joel (formerly Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast) is now live and ready for you to listen to:

The future isn’t something to predict… it’s something to practice. Few people embody that idea more completely than Nick Foster, a designer, futurist and author whose work has quietly influenced some of the most innovative companies on the planet – from Sony, Nokia, and Dyson to Google X, where he served as head of design. In his new book, Could Should Might Don’t – How We Think About The Future, Nick challenges the way we imagine what comes next. Rather than offering forecasts, he explores four mindsets – could, should, might, and don’t – that shape how individuals and organizations approach uncertainty. In this conversation, Nick reflects on his evolution from industrial design to futures thinking, examining how curiosity fuels creativity, why nostalgia shapes our forward gaze and how responsibility must now sit at the core of every design decision. He questions the seductive influence of science fiction on our collective imagination and unpacks the cultural anxieties that accompany rapid technological change. What emerges is not a roadmap to the future but a framework for thinking. One grounded in humility, storytelling and the courage to sit with what we don’t yet know. For Nick, futures design is not about prediction… it’s about perspective. Enjoy the conversation…

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