Have you ever wondered what the future holds like for everyone? Have you assessed the past to understand your present to eventually predict what’s going to happen? In this episode, Stephen Jaye talks with Chet Sisk about the future of humanity and taking another direction. Chet Sisk is a futurist, entrepreneur, author, consultant, speaker and workshop developer. He helps organizations see through the crisis of the moment in order to create plans for the immediate future. Do something different. Make an impact. Tune into this episode! Let’s pull things together, talk about innovation, empowerment, explore your options, and dive deep into the future.
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Predictions On The Future Of Humanity With Futurist Chet Sisk
I'd like to talk to you about the future, planning for the future, imagining what trends are going, what possible worlds could have emerged in the future is an important part of any endeavor. Whatever endeavor you're looking to take on or are currently taking on, this is an important aspect of it. It's an aspect that I had been thinking about for quite some time. I had always been interested in speculating about possible future scenarios.

However, I'm relatively new to the field of futurism, which contrary to popular belief is not about predicting specific events. It's more about imagining some possible future scenarios and also figuring out what we all need to do to be prepared to live in this world that is emerging. My guest, Chet Sisk, is a futurist as well as the Founder of Universal Basic Resources. Chet, welcome to the show.

Thank you, Stephen, for having me. It is my pleasure and honor to be here, absolutely.

Thank you for joining us. Just so that we hear it straight from you and get my readers oriented, in your own words, what is futurism? What does it mean to be a futurist?

A futurist is at least my interpretation is that you're a glorified journalist. I came from a journalism background and what journalists tend to do is follow a story in a usual 24-to-48-hour news cycle. Talk about what it means and the characters involved. Futurism does the same process, except it carries that particular story outside of the usual news cycle into decades, maybe even centuries so that you still look for the impact, and how it affects society and all of those things. It's just a bigger version as far as I'm concerned of journalism. I have to say that I use four elements that work for me when I'm doing a prediction. I shouldn't even say use the word prediction because that's not quite accurate.

It's more about making an assessment as to what's happening and then saying, “This is what's happening. This is how this happening will probably affect your immediate world.” I use my journalism skills in order to follow the story, to dig down and say, "Where did this come from? What does it mean?" Two, if it's a really important story, I'll go to the tip of the spear to talk to the people on the front end of whatever that story is and ask them, "What's going on? What's happening?" and they’ll tell you.

Three, You use historical context. Like, "Have we ever seen this before? Where does this come from?" The fourth thing is that you use your intuitive self to try to wrap your arms around what's happening and say, "Have I seen this before intuitively in my own experience? What do I think it will mean?" You put all those things together and then you come back and you say, "This is what I'm thinking is going to happen." Not a guarantee. It's just an assessment.

I never thought of it as being as connected to journalism as you had mentioned but there's definitely an aspect especially the whole looking back into the pa...