Career

He has been a blogger on innovation for Fast Company Magazine and has written about creativity, innovation, and future thinking for a variety of publications including Future Orientation (Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies) and What Matters (McKinsey & Company). He is a proponent of scenario planning and an advocate of preferred futures, believing it is incumbent upon organisations to create compelling visions of the future and work towards their realisation. In addition to writing, Watson works with the Technology Foresight Practice at Imperial College London and Lectures at London Business School and the King"s Fund.

Achievements

• He has written 4 books about the future and is the founder of What’s Next, a website that documents global trends.

Works

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  • Under Plowman's Floor: A Novel by Richard Watson

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  • Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln - Volume IV by Lincoln, Abraham; (ed.) John G. Nicolay; (ed.) John Hay; (intro.) Richard Watson Gilder
  • The Philosopher's Demise: Learning French by Richard A. Watson (2003-06-01)
  • An apology for the Bible, in a series of letters, addressed to Thomas Paine, ... By R. Watson, ... by Richard Watson (2010-05-27)
  • Future Files: A Brief History of the Next 50 Years by Richard Watson (2009-12-09)
  • Theological Institutes, Vol. 2 of 2: Or a View of the Evidences, Doctrines, Morals and Institutions of Christianity (Classic Reprint) by Richard Watson (2016-06-20)
  • Theological Institutes, Vol. 1 of 2: Or, a View of the Evidences, Doctrines, Morals, and Institutions of Christianity (Classic Reprint) by Richard Watson (2015-09-27)
  • Tom Thumb by Richard Jesse Watson (1989-02-01)
  • Future Minds: How the Digital Age Is Changing Our Minds, Why This Matters, and What We Can Do About It by Richard Watson (2010-10-07)
  • A collection of theological tracts, in six volumes. By Richard Watson, ... Vol. II. Volume 2 of 6 by Richard Watson (2010-05-29)
  • Solipsism: The Ultimate Empirical Theory of Human Existence by Professor Richard A Watson PH.D. (2016-04-30)
  • A sermon preached before the Lords spiritual and temporal, in the Abbey-church, Westminster, on Friday, January 30, 1784. By Richard, Lord Bishop of Landaff. by Richard Watson (2010-05-28)
  • Granta 103. The Rise of the British Jihad by Richard Watson (2008-09-01)
  • The Life of Rev. John Wesley, A. M: Sometime Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, Founder of the Methodist Societies (Classic Reprint) by Richard Watson (2015-09-27)
  • Data Management: Databases and Organizations by Richard T. Watson (2003-04-04)
  • Niagara by Richard Watson (2000-04-01)
  • The Philosopher's Enigma: God, Body and Soul by Richard A. Watson (2013-06-14)
  • Cogito, Ergo Sum: The Life of Rene Descartes by Richard Watson (2007-05-01)
  • A Collection of Theological Tracts, Vol. 6 of 6 (Classic Reprint) by Richard Watson (2016-07-31)
  • The Philosopher's Demise: Learning French by Richard A. Watson (1995-03-02)
  • The Future: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know by Richard Watson Richard Watson
  • Compositional Evolution: The Impact of Sex, Symbiosis, and Modularity on the Gradualist Framework of Evolution (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology) by Richard A. Watson (2006-01-06)
  • Tom Thumb by Richard Jesse Watson (1993-08-27)
  • 50 Schl????sselideen der Zukunft (German Edition) by Richard Watson (2014-01-22)
  • Compositional Evolution : The Impact of Sex, Symbiosis, and Modularity on the Gradualist Framework of Evolution (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology) by Richard A Watson (2006-02-03)
  • A Collection of Theological Tracts, Vol. 5 of 6 (Classic Reprint) by Richard Watson (2015-09-27)
  • Fixed/Mobile Convergence and Beyond: Unbounded Mobile Communications by Richard Watson (2008-10-09)
  • Future Files: The 5 Trends That Will Shape the Next 50 Years by Richard Watson (2008-09-25)
  • The Breakdown of Cartesian Metaphysics (Hackett Publishing) by Richard A. Watson (1998-03-15)
  • Futurevision: Scenarios for the World in 2040 by Richard Watson and Oliver Freeman (2013-02-07)
  • A collection of theological tracts, in six volumes. By Richard Watson, ... Vol. I. Volume 1 of 6 by Richard Watson (2010-05-29)
  • Juba Arabic for Beginners by Richard L. Watson (2015-08-20)
  • A sermon preached before the University of Cambridge, on Friday, February 4th, 1780, being the day appointed for a general fast. By R. Watson, ... The third edition. by Richard Watson (2010-06-24)
  • Descartes's Ballet: His Doctrine of the Will and His Political Philosophy by Richard A. Watson (2008-06-01)
  • Observations On Southey's Life of Wesley: Being a Defence of the Character, Labours, and Opinions of Mr. Wesley, Against the Misrepresentations of That Publication by Richard Watson (2015-09-08)
  • An Apology for the Bible, in a series of letters addressed to Thomas Paine, author of a book entitled: The Age of Reason, Eighth edition. by Richard Watson (2011-02-15)
  • Man and Nature: Anthropological Essay in Human Ecology by Richard A. Watson (1969-04-01)
  • A sermon preached before the University of Cambridge, on Friday, February 4th, 1780, being the day appointed for a general fast. By R. Watson, ... The fourth edition. by Richard Watson (2010-05-29)
  • Data Management: Databases & Organizations by Richard T. Watson (2005-08-26)
  • A collection of theological tracts, in six volumes. By Richard Watson, ... Second edition. Volume 4 of 6 by Richard Watson (2010-05-29)
  • Writing Philosophy: A Guide to Professional Writing and Publishing by Professor Richard A. Watson Ph.D. (1992-07-22)
  • Cartesian Views: Papers Presented to Richard A. Watson (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History) by Richard A. Watson (2003-10-10)
  • The Philosopher's Joke (Frontiers of Philosophy) by Richard A. Watson (1990-01-01)
  • The principles of the revolution vindicated in a sermon preached before the University of Cambridge, on Wednesday, May 29. 1776. By Richard Watson, ... by Richard Watson (2010-06-24)
  • The Breakdown of Cartesian Metaphysics by Richard A. Watson (1998-04-08)

Membership

He is also a network member of Stratforma and has worked with the Strategic Trends Unit at the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence, the Research and Development Corporation, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the Cabinet Office and the Departments of Education in the United Kingdom and Australia.