Preparing for an Extreme Future

Dr. James Canton is a futurist and bestselling author of "The Extreme Future: The Top Trends that Will Reshape the World in 20 Years." He has been dubbed 'Dr. Future', 'Future Guru' and 'One of the World's Top Minds'. He has advised three US administrations, and his interests range from weird science to climate, energy, workforce, population, security and medicine. He founded a consulting company, Global Futures, in 1990 after spending the prior decade helping to roll out the gamechanger Macintosh computer at Apple. BFM's Carla Sapford Newman spoke to him exclusively at the 4th Global Entrepreneurial Summit conference in Kuala Lumpur about what a futurist actually does, how to tell clients what they don't want to hear and how close future-ism is to science fiction.