Jan 28 2013
Matthias Horx
Futurist Speaker
Matthias Horx sees the current economic crisis as a productive process for a necessary change in the economy, politics and society. Matthias Horx draws lessons from the past and warns of the danger of anxiety and collective hysteria. Horx himself takes an optimistic view of the future and urges readers to see change as an opportunity to be seized. ARTS.21 talks to Horx about his vision of the future.
“The Futurist’s Paradox”
In the 1980s Horx embarked on a career in journalism. From 1980 to 1992 he worked as a writer and editor with paved beach, pace, time and Merian . He wrote several books, one of which was reworked in a radio play version. In 1993 Horx opened together with Peter Wippermann Trendbüro in Hamburg. After his departure from the trend Hamburg office he founded in 1997 with headquarters in the future institute Ruppertshain (district of Hofheim in Taunus ) in Frankfurt am Main , which also has a branch in Vienna has. He is on the advisory board of the lobby group Berlin Indianapolis and was until 2005 a member of the journalistic network Axis of Good.[/expand]
Futurism, is a mirroring of management, organizations, individuals, politics, the society as a whole. The goal is to challenge and to re-work the frameworks with which we look at tomorrow. To overcome linear, under-complex thinking. To understand the difference between coherence and causality, probability and possibility, chance and probability.[/expand]
Topics
Trend
Innovation
Management
Futurist
Author
Publications
2008
Technolution
2007
How We Will Live: A Synthesis of Life in the Future
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