When I started this blog I knew I was interested in the future of the communication industry and particularly journalism. I know those seem general topics in nature, but what I found was specificity. I found a specific style of content I like to create for my posts. During research for some of my articles, I found out about the futurist community of thinkers. Some are professionals working with think-tanks and businesses. Some are journalists, like myself. Some are people just interested in thinking about the future. I have explored several ideas from this area in my articles, from shopping to women in politics. The common thread in my topics is me. All of these article topics somehow either relate to an issue which directly affects me or my community.
Writing these brought not just a better understanding of myself, but of the community around me in the present. It’s impotent to look at that because I believe to get a glimpse of the future we must understand fully our present. And we want to get a glimpse of the future because as Futurist Edward Cornish so elegantly put it, “foresight is the secret ingredient of success.”
I think Futura Bazaar has developed and is still developing into its own voice, but has made a long journey since the beginning. It has allowed me truly to have an identity which is set apart from my personal self. An expression of a more hopeful me, a me who wants to help find solutions and answers, and not wallow in the latest breaking next new controversy. As humans we are only at the beginning of a very long journey of existence, extinction is not around the corner. If you believe that then you can take the journey into a hopeful future. A future where together we can mold an existence that suits us all. But that takes thinking. And more importantly, communicating ideas so they can be put into action.
Futura Bazaar will continue to assist in that goal. I will continue to write articles related to the futurist genre, but I will also include videos and graphics I create about the topic. I will also continue my research on Edward Cornish. I may continue to work on some type of biographical workup on him and eventually put that into some type of presentation. I’m not sure of the medium, but I enjoyed writing the screenplay with him as a character. I will continue to promote #FutureTalk. I will continue to develop and promote this voice.