News from me: two media updates

Greetings from a very harried May.

There’s a lot going on here — too much, really. I finished my spring class and am now redesigning and reorganizing fall seminars. In other tabs, I’m working on the new book. Producing the Future Trends Forum. Traveling a lot (typing this from an Amtrak heading south south-west) and doing many virtual sessions for clients. Blogging and newslettering. Making videos. And also caring for my poor wife.

Two *more* things happened, which I’d like to share here.

First, the Future Trends Forum just passed a big milestone. After publishing last Thursday’s excellent session about the information environment of young people, we now have four hundred (400) YouTube recordings in our YouTube archive.

That’s not 400 little Tiktoks, by the way. Nearly every one of those recordings is about one hour of discussion, conversation, argument, connection: solid, extensive, content.

I know 400 is just an integer, but it strikes me — as the Forum’s creator, producer, host, interlocutor, fund-raiser, and cat-herder — as an indicator of a huge amount of live video work involving tens of thousands of people and a galaxy of ideas. It sometimes dizzies me to think we started in February 2016, and how far back in the past that is from May 2024. We’ve been doing these weekly sessions…