In their day, all of these were incredible can’t live without technologies that changed the world, but today not so much. This week Hong Kong Radio 3’s Phil Whelan and I take a nostalgic look back at the typewriter, the discman, cassette tapes, VHS, floppy disks, pagers, portable.

When signals like Not everything old is new again emerge, organisations that engage early have the advantage of choosing their response rather than reacting to events. That gap between those who prepared and those who did not is where competitive positioning is actually made or lost.

The most important question is not whether Not everything old is new again will matter, but how quickly it will matter in your specific context. Leaders benefit most from mapping the ripple effects early — not just the direct impact but the second and third-order consequences that arrive later and hit harder. That is the practical work of foresight.