Bronwyn Williams tells us that Philip K. Dick's science fiction classic, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? got her thinking about how much of our own economies are propped up by "ridiculous" status symbols and the conspicuous consumption of intrinsically worthless, but socially essential goods and services...
Bronwyn Williams has observed the ways businesses and brands have responded to the crisis, the one being cynical crisis capitalism and the other, authentic brand empathy...
Bronwyn Williams 21 Sep 2020
Bronwyn Williams reflects on Dan Carlin's The End Is Always Near and Ariel and Will Durant's The Lessons of History and says the choice is ours to learn the lessons of history or to repeat the mistakes of the past...
Bronwyn Williams 14 Sep 2020
Bronwyn Williams highlights her key learnings in Lionel Shriver's The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 and Edward Snowden's Permanent Record to emphasise that as we submit to further infringements on our privacy, freedom of speech, and freedom of movement in the effort to stop the spread of Covid-19, we must ensure that emergency measures designed to fight a temporary crisis do not become a permanent feature...
Bronwyn Williams 7 Sep 2020
Referring to Peter Pomerantsev's This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, Bronwyn Williams explains why the only way to regain trust and truth in society is for individuals themselves to realise that the price of freedom of speech and free flowing information is a personal responsibility...
Bronwyn Williams 31 Aug 2020
Rereading Terry Pratchett's, The Truth, Bronwyn Williams was struck by a minor character who reminded her that every messy problem is a business opportunity in disguise and tells us how this side story is playing out in various guises around the world...
Bronwyn Williams 24 Aug 2020
Bronwyn Williams unpacks Douglas Adams', The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and shares her thoughts around Modern Monetary Theory and "adopting short-term solutions for long-term problems without giving full consideration to the long-term consequences of those short-term solutions"...
Bronwyn Williams 17 Aug 2020
Bronwyn Williams says we have two choices, between the dangerous and prevalent postalgia, abandoning ourselves to the present or progressing towards the future with purpose...
Bronwyn Williams 10 Aug 2020
In an age where fake news is a stranger to truth, and truth stranger than fiction, Bronwyn Williams provides insights as to why books and their authors are vital to understanding trends...
Bronwyn Williams 3 Aug 2020
Bizcommunity is pleased to announce a regular column by trend consultant, analyst and strategist Bronwyn Williams...
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