What is futurecasting (and why should you care)?

There are two paths to innovation. One resides in our timeline just beyond now-solving a problem that exists today with technologies and resources available today. For comparison’s sake, let’s call it simple forecasting. The other path resides in our timeline years into the future-solving a problem that is, at least according to the tea leaves of trends and R&D pipelines, imminent, using technologies or…