#57: Ari Popper - Founder & CEO of SciFutures - Inspiring Radical Innovation Through Sci-Fi Storytelling

Today, we are talking about:Backcasting and bringing the future to life.Using storytelling to unify an organization.Working with NATO to imagine the future of warfare.Creating the Northstar and the dangers of dystopian sci-fiYour datasphere profile and how we will interact with other's dataspheres in the future.The future of mood control and monitoring.Ari Popper is the Founder and CEO of SciFutures, an award-winning innovation house that uses science fiction prototyping to create preferred futures for Fortune 500 companies and large organizations like Visa, Hershey's, Ford, and NATO.Prior to Scifutures, Ari was the president of a market research company called System One. Looking to make a career change, in 2011, Ari had an epiphany in a science fiction writing class at UCLA where he realized that one could harness the power of science fiction storytelling in business to transform companies and give them a much better chance of inventing disruptive technologies and solutions themselves.SciFutures' mission is to help create inspiring and insightful visions of the future that results in meaningful innovation and positive change.Over the years, SciFutures has written thousands of stories for its clients. They have over 300 science fiction writers worldwide, including some Hugo Award Winners, who write for them to help their clients solve their innovation and transformation challenges.Website: https://www.scifutures.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ari-popper-%E2%93%A5-35ba042/Books:(1) Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind(2) Exhalation: Stories