The Pattern Future: Finding the World's Great Secrets and Predicting the Future Using Pattern Discovery - Hardcover

Anderson, Mark R

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0996725458 ISBN 13: 9780996725453

Publisher: Strategic News Service, 2018

Synopsis

Renowned technology and economics forecaster Mark Anderson reveals hidden patterns beneath the art and science of predicting the future. Through a series of personal vignettes, Anderson exposes a complex web of causes, influences, and effects that propel today's world, then describes strategies that he employs to lay bare new trends, to make new discoveries in a wide variety of disciplines, and to accurately foresee future events.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Mark Excerpt from David Brin's foreword to The Pattern Future:

At the Strategic News Service, Mark [Anderson] and his analysts use their newsletter to peel back surfaces, looking for the trends under trends. He travels the world, invited by sages and leaders who ask "What did we miss?" . . . Mark has put one priority above all others - fostering creative problem-solving.

And now he's sharing his core methods with you. Mark didn't have to invent any arm-waved terminology; the key words were already there - pattern recognition. Indeed, AI researchers have poured billions into teaching our machines to parse things like picking out a dog amid cats. But Mark is after much subtler configurations - patterns of cause and effect that still pop out only when they are sought by human minds. Minds who are simultaneously both open and critical.

. . . Science already is comfortable with reciprocal delusion piercing. But out there in our wild markets, where cheating and self-deception abound, is also where humanity builds and allocates the vast wealth we need, to end poverty and injustice, to solve problems and reach for the stars. Out there in the messy souks and bazaars of capital and policy . . . that is where we desperately need better pattern recognition, by officers of the state, by leaders of companies, and especially by average citizens. We must get better at perceiving patterns in the way that others (and that person in the mirror) are both wrong and right.

Here's a toolkit to get started.

From the Inside Flap

Mark R. Anderson is the founder and CEO of the Strategic News Service and the SNS Conference Corp. Since 1995, he has produced the weekly SNS Global Report on topics relating to technology and how it drives the global economy.

In 2003, Anderson launched the SNS Future in Review (FiRe) conference. FiRe has gone on to become an annual participatory event, named "the best technology conference in the world" by The Economist.

Anderson is also CEO of Coventry Computer; founder and chairman of Orca Relief Citizens' Alliance, a nonprofit organization working to reduce the mortality rate of the Salish Sea's Southern Resident Killer Whale; and founder and chairman of INVNT/IP (Inventing Nations vs. Nation-sponsored Theft of IP), a consortium of global businesses and lawmakers working to prevent nation-sponsored theft of innovative crown-jewel intellectual property.

Anderson has an international reputation for his accuracy in predictions in technology and the global economy. He has worked for over 20 years as a consultant or collaborator on multiple issues with C-level executives from Fortune 500 companies, government officials ranging from local leaders to international heads of state, and some of the brightest minds in academia.

Jacket design by Tatiana Villa

Cover photo © Sally L. Anderson, Canal du Midi

Edition details

• Publisher: Strategic News Service
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0996725458
• ISBN 13: 9780996725453
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240