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Book Review: How to Future by Scott Smith with Madeline Ashby - A Great Place to Start

The Strategic Foresight team at Autodesk informs long-term decision-making by anticipating what might happen so the company and our customers can navigate change, seize opportunities, and mitigate risk. Our Forces of Change Program is an annual program that results in... Read more →

Book Review: The Genesis Machine by @AmyWebb and @AndrewHessel

Materials to make things are evolving from non-living to living. [Materials list from The Future of Making by Tom Wujec] Full Disclosure: Although I don't know Amy Webb, I know Andrew Hessel from his days at Autodesk. Autodesk customers design... Read more →

Air Travel: Back to the Future

I am old enough to remember a time when entertainment on an airplane was provided by the airline. A flight attendant would walk down the aisle offering passengers a chance to rent a pair of headphones. The passenger would hand... Read more →

Autodesk Customers Can Use Autodesk Software to Address the Effects of Urbanization

Sources for the charts: openknowledge.worldbank.org macrotrends.net unstats.un.org As a global company, we at Autodesk look at the needs for housing and infrastructure around the globe. We have found that: Urbanization With over half the world’s population already living in cities,... Read more →

Autodesk Software Can Help Address the Nine Planetary Boundaries

Data sources for the charts: Stockholm Resilience Centre Our World in Data: Annual CO2 Emissions Our World in Data: Outdoor Air Pollution "Save the Planet" is a misnomer. Whether the result of human activity or natural long-term planetary cycles, planet... Read more →