Acknowledgements

We would first like to thank our many clients, who have allowed us to help them in the challenge of embracing the uncertainties of the future and in improving the quality of their strategic planning.

Our scenarios about the future are built on a methodology, the foundation of which was provided by our work with Global Business Network in San Francisco, where Peter Schwartz, Napier Collyns, Stewart Brand, Kees van der Heijden, Jay Ogilvy, and Lawrence Wilkinson were inspiring mentors. Our spin on the Shell approach to scenario work, the scenario-planning QUEST, was developed with our consulting colleagues — in particular Richard Bawden and Melanie Williams.

In terms of our own development as futurists, there are many people to thank — fellow consultants, outstanding thinkers, academics, writers, and the people who have worked with us on the nuts and bolts of the day-to-day administration of our projects. In any order, all hail: Richard Neville, Richard Bawden, George Burt, Susan Oliver, Hugh Pattinson, Keith Suter, Anita Kelleher, Ross Dawson, Tom Brigstocke, Richard Slaughter, Kylie Gillon, Stewart Clegg, Peter Lazar, John Trudgian, Charles Handy, Theodore Zeldin, Douglas Slater, Alan Sekers, Wayde Bull, Alexandra Berthold, Greg Rippon, Hardin Tibbs, Bob Frater, Howard Dare, Peter Wallman, John Loty, Michael Hollingworth, Kristen Hansen, Gill Coutts, Roger West, Georgia Freeman, Roy Green, Clare Hallifax, Bernard Lloyd, James Cowan, Michael Killalea, Adam Kahane, Bronwyn Jones, Louis van der Merwe, Ian Dunlop, Gerald Harris, Geraldene Callanan, Andrew Campion, Lisa Coles, Simon Marks-Isaacs, Richard Hames, John Thackara, Narelle Kennedy, Howard Dare, Jack McLoone, Kate Delaney, Scott Martin, Richard Eckersley, Carmelita Emperado, Andrew Crosthwaite, Stuart Henshall, Noah Raford, Rhonda Evans, Ewan McEoin, and Barbara Heinzen.