In a message to his partners, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said, Its been said that the the best way to create the future is to invent it, which is why we [Starbucks] must continue to push for innovations that reflect and support our core values.

Being a complexity scientist, Shultzs inventing the future quote triggered me to think hard about various ways of looking at the future. The future is unpredictable. Like any natural ecosystemor a marketplace created by humans, such as Wall Streetthe...