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<\/a>But what if no one in the group thinks to ask the pertinent question that leads to the most impactful unknown?\u00a0 What if that threat is outside of the experience of anyone in the room?\u00a0 What if no one knows what to ask?<\/p>\n[Email readers, continue here…]<\/span><\/em>\u00a0 Another CEO chimed in with an answer that made us all think.\u00a0 Most every technology advance has been predicted in works of fiction years before the fact, he stated.\u00a0 Why not look to fiction for clues?\u00a0 From devastating events like tsunamis to future user interfaces predicted in such films as Star Trek<\/i> or Minority Report<\/i>, there are liberating clues within the experiences of most of us.\u00a0 Think of Flash Gordon<\/i> or Dick Tracy<\/i>, characters from many decades ago with communication devices that have not only come to life but have been far surpassed in reality.\u00a0 Tom Cruise\u2019s virtual handling of graphics by hand movements came true only a few years later, even popularized as a game with Microsoft\u2019s Kinect system driven by body movement alone.<\/p>\n Our frame of reference must be as broad as possible when asking \u201cwhat if\u201d questions to protect our future.\u00a0 Read more science fiction if you are involved in technology.\u00a0 Read more disaster novels to expand your thinking to the very edge, even if only for a minute as you examine what and how to react to the unknowns that are sure to someday challenge us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Great executives and managers seem to intuitively know what they don\u2019t know.\u00a0\u00a0 But it is not at all uncommon to not even know what questions to ask. How do you avoid being sideswiped by the new product you never saw … Continue reading