For some reason, my first post here is going to be trivial. In the litany of human communication habits, and right through litany futures work, short lists of things seems to resonate with our neocortex's thinking and memory functions. So lets hand it over to the number Five…
Five different things landed in my inbox this week – all talking about five big things. So, for some reason five is the number this week (was Sesame Street playing in my subconscious or something?):
- TrendWatching.com's Top 5 consumer trends for 2007;
- Forbes.com's Top Five Nanotech Breakthroughs Of 2006;
- The Inquirer's Top Five Next Big Things That Weren’t;
- Minyanville.com has a daily Five Things You Need to Know to stay ahead of the pack on Wall Street, here's a taste; and,
- In psychology there are Five Big Personality Factors. I never knew, and I even studied psychology!
Okay, we can change channel now. We can do an integral futures cartography of the levels of thinking and domains of interest some other time… Now I just wanna cookie.