I recently did a podcast interview on the Future Force Talk podcast, which is hosted by the Hungarian Defence Ministry’s Defence Innovation Research Institute (in Hungarian: Védelmi Innovációs Kutató Intézet, which has the wonderful acronym VIKI). The podcast host is Dr Gergely Németh, the Director of VIKI, who was formerly the Branch Head of the Strategic Foresight Branch at NATO’s Allied Command Transformation.
We chatted about a lot of things including foresight and when it is useful (and when not), and it was great fun to catch up with Gergely, who in fact was the person who first invited me to contribute to the strategic foresight activities at NATO three years ago, as part of the Strategic Foresight Analysis 2023 report.
For the most part, it is in English. But there is a section in the middle when Gergely asks about my history and background (always something useful to do for any topic of foresight work) — which is actually Hungarian — that I speak in Hungarian for a while about that somewhat “interesting” back-story. This is only fitting, as my parents both escaped from Communist Hungary in the 1950s; my mother in 1950, and my father after and because of the revolution in 1956, whereupon they met here in Australia.
The citation information for the podcast episode is:
Voros, Joseph, guest. “The Power of Bounded Imagination.” Future Force Talk Podcast, hosted by Gergely Németh. VIKI Defence Innovation Research Institute Hungary, August 26, 2025. 1h19m. https://youtu.be/SHsZ6QrKBsk.
As ever, I hope you find it both useful and informative.
The Voroscope 