James Wallman is a trends forecaster, consumer insight and innovation specialist. He is editor of LS:N Global, the consumer insight, innovation and trends network from The Future Laboratory for the lifestyle industries, covering 14 vertical markets, including retail, luxury, travel, food, drink and design.
James also writes the futurology column for T3 magazine, making simple sense of complex topics such as the singularity, the autonomous age, the future of money and synthetic biology.
Having read Classics at Oxford University, where he was awarded the Charles Oldham Scholarship, and Journalism at the London College of Communication (formerly London College of Printing), where he was awarded the Evening Standard prize, James has worked in Silicon Valley’s PARC. He has been a journalist, writing for publications such as the Times, the New York Times, the FT and GQ. And he has been a senior trends analyst at The Future Laboratory.
This brief blog covers a range of his work, including examples of clients he’s worked with and publications he’s written for. Below are a few examples of his writing and thinking.
