Flying Cars
Credit: Alef Aeronautics
If you only had a few minutes available… How do you go about forming your opinions?
How did you travel to work today – did you telecommute, take ground transport… or travel in your new flying car?
It was brilliant to chat futuristically last week on RNZ’s The Panel with Guyon Espiner and panellists Ella Henry and Allan Blackman about our near… or far… future of flying cars.
Alef’s electric Model A has just taken us a step… or flight… closer to the long-promised future of flying cars. You can pre-order one of your own today for just a USD 150 deposit. (However as is typically the case with the beginning of the disruptive innovation curve, the full cost isn’t quite so affordable – USD 299,999).
If you only had a few minutes available to research and clarify your view for an interview about a specific future development, how would you go about it? In other words, when you head into your next meeting to discuss strategic plans for your organisation’s future… How do you go about forming your opinions?
Do you focus on your own strongly held beliefs, or do you deliberately seek out diverse opinions of others to broaden your perspective? Do you form your opinions from media headlines, or do you use these as jumping points to search more thoughtfully?
Do you search – or are you now more likely to chat with AI?
More significantly, are you still asking your AI simple narrow-minded questions, or are you now deliberately asking opposing questions to more strategically explore divergent scenarios?
In other words…
Are you learning to be a Prompt Engineer or are you advancing further to become a Prompt Whisperer?
Alongside chatting to others and reflecting on my own perspective, asking GPT and Bard “Will we have flying cars in the future?” gave one view of a possible future ahead.
Increasing certainty by asking “Why will we have flying cars in the future?” unlocked deeper insight.
Then flipping my perspective 180° by asking “Why won’t we have flying cars in the future?” surfaced divergent counter-considerations that otherwise would have remained hidden.
Before talking with others to humanly make greater sense together of the inspiring possibilities ahead.
Ready to explore further?
Join us at next month’s free online Futurist Hour where we’ll be exploring a future trend that’s already arrived – Leading with AI