• Review the entire Syllabus, including Review This First, Deliverables, Schedule, Calendar and Course Policies
• Set up your Slack and Teams profiles
• Complete the Introduce Yourself and Learning Contract posts in Slack
• Purchase The Signals Are Talking and Range
• Follow these thought leaders: Frank Diana, Gerd Leonhardt, Gray Scott, Amy Webb,

Week 1, Classes 1 & 2 | What’s This DT&L Thing About?

• Introduction to DT&L (Monday)
• DT&L Project
• Team Organization
• Project Focus
• DT&L alumni visit (Wednesday)

Week 2, Class 3 & 4 | How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall?

• Understand the role and purpose of a futurist
• Classify probable, plausible and possible trends and futures
• Identify and summarize key 2020 trends

• Familiarize yourself with the following so that you can use these sources throughout the course
  • Future Today Institute:
    • 2020 Tech Trends Report
    • 2020 Trends Key Takeaways
    • 2020 Trends Highlights
    • Trends Search v1.2
  • FTI framework & materials
    • Forecasting Model
    • Framework for Strategic Planning
    • Key Stakeholder
    • Assumptions vs Knowledge
• Read/Watch the following in sufficient depth that you can participate in informed discussion
  • Signals Are Talking, Chapters 1, 2 & 3
  • Amy Webb
    • How Futurists Cope With Uncertainty
    • The Flare and Focus of Successful Futurists
    • How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist
  • Frank Diana
    • Think Like a Futurist with Frank Diana
    • Our Emerging Future
    • A Framework for the Future

• FTI Framework
• Role of futurists and forecasting
• Review current events

Week 3, Class 5 | A Pandemic Drives Acceleration

• Analyze the impact of the pandemic on developing trends
• Determine the influence of the pandemic as an accelerator
• Understand the impact of the pandemic on trends

• Familiarize yourself with the following so that you can use these sources throughout the course
  • FTI: Axes of Uncertainty
  • FTI: COVID-19 Acceleration Matrix
• Read/Watch the following in sufficient depth that you can participate in informed discussion
  • Frank Diana
    • Learning from History
    • A Post Pandemic Society
    • The Future Is All About Uncertainty
    • The Third Tipping Point
  • Bill Gates
    • The next outbreak. We’re not ready
    • How we must respond to the coronavirus pandemic
    • How the pandemic will face the near future

• FTI Methodologies
• Pandemic as an Accelerator
• Coping With Uncertainty

Week 4, Classes 6 & 7 | Dots… What Dots? & Creativity & Ideas

• Investigate the impact of the fringe on trends and futures
• Identify problems that are ready for new solutions
• Identify potential new solutions to problems
• Identify and determine what is the future of “x”
• Develop a fringe map
• Apply CIPHER to “What for X” perspective

• Read/Watch the following in sufficient depth that you can participate in informed discussion
  • Signals Are Talking, Chapters 4, 5 & 6
  • Back To The Future (of 1994), Danny Hillis
  • A 30 Year History Of The Future, Nicholas Negroponte
  • Why We Need To Imagine Different Futures, Anab Jain
  • The World In 2200, Pete Alcorn

• How did we get here? The significance of 2007
• Review current events

• Familiarize yourself with the following so that you can use these sources throughout the course
  • Creativity, Wikipedia
  • Ideas, Wikipedia
• Read/Watch the following in sufficient depth that you can participate in informed discussion
  • The Power Of Creativity And Ideas
    • MIT’s Media Lab
    • How Art, Technology & Design Inform Creative Leaders, John Maeda
    • Where Tomorrow’s Technology Is Born
    • Inside MIT’s “Future Factory”
    • Meet The Sixth Sense Interaction
    • The Thrilling Potential Of Sixth Sense Technology

• Discuss Creativity & Ideas
• Review current events
• Thinking Outside The Box

Week 5, Classes 8 & 9 | The Importance of Storytelling

• Understand trend trajectory and timing
• Explain the importance of storytelling

• Familiarize yourself with the following so that you can use these sources throughout the course
  • Scenario Planning, Wikipedia
• Read/Watch the following in sufficient depth that you can participate in informed discussion
  • Signals Are Talking, Chapters 7 & 8
  • Future-Back Thinking, Frank Diana
  • The Clues To A Great Story, Andrew Stanton
  • Innovation Needs Future-Minded Leaders, Mark Johnson
  • How To Excel In Future-Back Thinking, Johanna Nalau

• Scenario Planning
• Monitoring Trends

Week 6, Classes 10 & 11 | Scenarios for All Sorts of Stuff

• Explain the significance of scenario planning
• Identify key lenses, critical issues, key drivers, primary motivators and develop implications
• Analyze trend likelihood and impact

• Familiarize yourself with the following so that you can use these sources throughout the course
  • Scenario Planning in Uncertain Times, MacEachen Institute
• Read/Watch the following in sufficient depth that you can participate in informed discussion
  • Signals Are Talking, Chapters 9 & 10

• Scenario Planning
• Understand “If This, Then That”

Week 7, Classes 12 & 13 | Disruptive Innovation & Jobs To Be Done

• Understand disruptive innovation
• Distinguish the three types of innovation
• Understand JTBD
• Distinguish functional, social, and emotional jobs to be done

• Range, Introduction, Chapters 1 & 2

• Read/Watch the following in sufficient depth that you can participate in informed discussion
  • What is Disruptive Innovation?
  • Disruptive Innovation, Clayton Christiansen
  • The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation
  • Disruptive Innovation, Robert Perrons
  • The Art of Innovation, Guy Kawasaki
  • Airbnb and the Unintended Consequences of ‘Disruption’, Derek Thompson

• Disruptive Innovation
• Review current events

• Read/Watch the following in sufficient depth that you can participate in informed discussion
  • What Is Jobs-to-be-Done?
  • Jobs-To-Be-Done Theory and Methodology
  • Jobs-To-Be-Done Framework
  • Jobs-To-Be-Done Examples and Rules
  • Applying Jobs-to-be-Done Theory
  • Outcome-Driven Innovation Process – Overview

• Applying JBTD
• Review current events

Week 8, Classes 14 & 15 | Digital Transformation (Dx) & The Future

• Understand digital transformation
• Distinguish between disruptive innovation and Dx
• Explain the stages of Dx

• Range, Chapters 3 & 4

• Familiarize yourself with the following so that you can use these sources throughout the course
  • Digital Transformation, Wikipedia
  • History of the Internet,  Wikipedia
• Read/Watch the following in sufficient depth that you can participate in informed discussion
  • Introducing the Digital Transformation Initiative, World Economic Forum
  • The Six Stages of Digital Transformation Maturity, Brian Solis
  • What Will a Future Without Secrets Look Like?, Alessandro Acquisti
  • A Roadmap for a Digital Transformation, McKinsey
  • Five Moves To Make During A Digital Transformation, McKinsey
  • The Seven Decisions That Matter In A Digital Transformation: A CEO’s Guide To Reinvention, McKinsey
  • Anatomy of Failure: Mobile Flops from RIM, Microsoft, and Nokia, Galen Gruman

• Dx
• Review current events

Week 9, Classes 16 & 17 | Aggregation Theory & Antitrust

• Explain Aggregation Theory
• Understand the implications of aggregation in a knowledge economy
• Explain the difference between an economy of scarcity and one of abundance
• Evaluate whether antitrust law is appropriate for the challenges presented by a knowledge economy

• Range, Chapters 5 & 6

• Read/Watch the following in sufficient depth that you can participate in informed discussion
  • An Introduction to Aggregation Theory, Anuj Abrol
  • Aggregation Theory and Digital Platforms, Ben Thompson
  • Aggregation Theory, Ben Thompson
  • How ‘Aggregation Theory’ is Fueling a Multi-Trillion Dollar Technology Revolution, Tikue Anazodo
  • Aggregation Theory: The Most Powerful Economics Theory You Didn’t Learn at University, David Lifely
  • Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox, 126 Yale Law Journal 3 (2017)

• Aggregation Theory
• Review current events

Week 10, Classes 18 & 19 | IoT & Big Data 

• Explain the Internet of Things
• Explain Big Data
• Understand the relationship between IoT and Big Data

• Range, Chapters 7 & 8

• Familiarize yourself with the following so that you can use these sources throughout the course
  • Internet of Things, Wikipedia
  • Metcalfe’s Law, Wikipedia
• Read/Watch the following in sufficient depth that you can participate in informed discussion
  • Welcome to the Age of the Industrial Internet, Marco Annunziata
  • Internet of Things is Now and the Future, Wei Xiang
  • Everything Around You Can Become a Computer, Ivan Poupyrev
  • Internet of Things Security, Ken Munro

• IoT
• Review current events

• Familiarize yourself with the following so that you can use these sources throughout the course
  • Big Data, Wikipedia
  • Big Data Ethics, Wikipedia
• Read/Watch the following in sufficient depth that you can participate in informed discussion
  • Big Data is Better Data, Kenneth Cukior
  • Your Social Media Likes “Expose” More Than You Think, Jennifer Golbeck
  • What Do We Do With All This Big Data?, Susan Etlinger
  • What Are You Revealing Online? Much More Than You Think, Alessandro Acquisti & Jennifer Golbeck
  • The Human Insights Missing from Big Data, Tricia Wang
  • Zuck’s Georgetown Speech: Video and Transcript

• Big Data
• Implications of Zuck’s speech
• Review current events

Week 11, Classes 20 & 21 | Cloud Computing & Artificial Intelligence

• Explain the Cloud Computing
• Explain Artificial Intelligence
• Understand the relationship between IoT, Big Data, Cloud Computing and AI

• Range, Chapters 9 & 10

• Familiarize yourself with the following so that you can use these sources throughout the course
  • Cloud Computing, Wikipedia
  • Elastic Cloud Storage, Wikipedia
  • Elasticity (Cloud Computing), Wikipedia
  • Cloud Computing Issues, Wikipedia
  • Cloud Computing Security, Wikipedia
• Read/Watch the following in sufficient depth that you can participate in informed discussion
  • What Is Cloud Computing And How It Is Enabling The Big Data Economy, Bernard Marr
  • Thinking Forward About Cloud Computing, John Easton
  • How Four Technologies Created The ‘Perfect Storm’ For Online Learning, Anant Agarwal

• Cloud Computing
• Review current events

• Familiarize yourself with the following so that you can use these sources throughout the course
  • FTI: 2019 Tech Trends Report
    • Prepare pps. 70-94
  • Artificial Intelligence, Wikipedia
  • Ethics Of Artificial Intelligence, Wikipedia
  • GPT-3,  Wikipedia
• Read/Watch the following in sufficient depth that you can participate in informed discussion
  • Welcome To Human-Computer Co-Creation: What GPT-3 Means For Education, Tom Vander Ark
  • The Incredible Inventions of Intuitive AI, Maurice Conti
  • What Moral Decisions Should Driverless Cars Make?, Iyad Rawan
  • Machine Intelligence Makes Human Morals More Important, Zeynep Tufekci
  • The Wonderful and Terrifying Implications of Computers That Can Learn, Jeremy Howard
  • This App Knows How You Feel From The Look On Your Face, Rana el Kaliouby
  • How To Get Empowered, not Overpowered, By AI, Max Tegmark
  • Top 9 Ethical Issues In Artificial Intelligence, Julia Bossmann
  • New Research Alliance Cements Split on AI Ethics, David Matthews
  • Inside Amazon’s Artificial Intelligence Flywheel, Steven Levy
  • Machine Learning Proves Its Worth to Business, Bob Violino
  • Elon Musk’s Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.I. Apocalypse, Maureen Dowd

• AI in all it’s glory!
• Review current events

Week 12, Classes 22 & 23 | The Future of Work

• Describe the implications presented by FoW
• Explain the impact of accelerators on FoW
• Analyze the work force implications of FoW

• Range, Chapters 11 & 12, Conclusion

• Read/Watch the following in sufficient depth that you can participate in informed discussion
  • The Future Of The Office And Changing Work For The Better, Frank Diana
  • Robots And The Future Of Work, Frank Diana
  • Maybe the Gig Economy Never Was What It Used to Be
  • Machine Learning Will Redesign, Not Replace, Work
  • Workforce Of The Future – 2030, PWC
  • 3 Myths About the Future of Work, Daniel Susskind
  • How We’ll Earn Money In A Future Without Jobs, Martin Ford
  • The Future of Work — 3 Mega-Trends, Graham Brown-Martin
  • Harnessing Automation For A Future That Works, McKinsey & Company
  • Humanity Is More Important Than Money — It’s Time For Capitalism To Get An Upgrade, Andrew Yang
  • Why We Should Value ‘Invisible Labor, Yonatan Zunger
  • Technological Unemployment and UBI, Michael K. Spencer
  • Capitalism Has a Problem. Is Free Money the Answer?, Peter S. Goodman
  • Amazon
    • Is Amazon Unstoppable?
    • Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan

• Future of work
• Benefits of being a generalist
• Review current events

Week 13, Classes 24 & 25 | Perspective

• Prepare for Perspective Discussions

• David Middleton, Microsoft (Monday)
  • Future of Education
• Frank Diana, Tata Consultancy Services (Wednesday)
  • Reimagining The Future

• Gretzky Plan Posted No Later Than Sunday at 6:14p ET

Week 14, Class 26  | Gretzky Plan Discussions

Wednesday (11/26): Thanksgiving Break – No Class

• Review Gretzky Plans in preparation for discussions

• Project discussions

• DT&L Final Project Posted No Later Than Sunday at 6:14p ET

Week 15, Classes 27 & 28  | DT&L Project Summaries / Course Wrap

• Review DT&L Projects in preparation for discussion of summaries

• DT&L Project Summary discussions
• Course Wrap