AN INCURABLE OPTIMIST SENDING A MORSE CODE BURST OF HOPE
Who is John Picard? Hard to say. Because John isn’t a present tense person. He’s all future tense.
John will change the way you think about sustainability — transforming duty into opportunity, liability into a new asset class. John has a passion for the future — he wants all of us to meet him there as soon as possible.
He’s literally been living in the future since he built his first super-smart eco-home in California. Since then, he’s been designing for the future we all want to live in, from the City Center Hotel Las Vegas to Atlantic Station in ATL, via Grand Wailea in Maui, and even the White House.
John is forging tomorrow in Silicon Valley, coding architecture that is sensate, adaptive, regenerative, cost-effective and healthy. With John, everything converges on the future: people, places, spaces, software, hardware and Mother Earth in all her glory. John is weaving a new story of the Internet of Climate Change, a protective web of data around the world that will solve for the planet — and humanity.
We have the tools now to live in John’s exponentially better world. He’s seen it. He wants us to see it too.
Don’t worry too much about where John’s been or where he is. Just Connect Forward. John is the ultimate open-source human being working in the field of sustainability.
John’s message comes to all of us like a bell, a deeply moving and ringing reminder of what needs to be done, what is at stake and in a perfect blend of analog and digital, a morse code burst of hope.
John has a unique connection with the future: He can peer around the corner sooner than the rest of us.
John sees what others see twenty to thirty years later. He believes we’re approaching escape velocity — escape from the thinking that has brought so much waste and damage. His data-driven optimism continues to bring his pure form of Renaissance energy to Silicon Valley start-ups and NGOs in Africa. When you meet John, you quickly realize that he’s only just getting started.
John Picard is an architect-coder-entrepreneur-activist-futurist-father, an open-source human, a biological API ... and an incurable optimist.
