TV Interview – Roger Spitz (London, 2025)
METARUPTIONS – Word of the Year (Disruptive Futures Institute)
Roger Spitz Keynote Talk at the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) in Washington D.C.
Disrupt With Impact (Roger Spitz, Kogan Page Publishing), Endorsed by 4 Awards
As the Environment Spitz Mapped in 2019 Hits Inflection Point, Disruptive Futures Institute Scales Geopolitics Center; Spitz Ranked #6 in National Security
Washington is the new Silicon Valley. The Three Gs no longer operate in parallel – they collide. That collision is a metaruption, and it is the operating environment for the rest of the decade.”— Roger Spitz, Chair Disruptive Futures Institute
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, UNITED STATES, July 18, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — The Disruptive Futures Institute (DFI) has announced the extensive reach of the term Metaruptions. Originally introduced by Roger Spitz in 2019, this concept is now appearing in writings on geopolitics, military strategy, national security, cyber risk, artificial intelligence, governmental foresight, and development policy – frequently penned by authors outside the foresight domain.
Formalized across the Disruptive Futures Institute’s publications from 2020 through 2024, Metaruptions denote multidimensional, self-reinforcing systemic breakdowns where technological leaps, ecological shifts, geopolitical tensions, societal changes, and human evolution intersect and intensify in unpredictable cascading patterns. What started as a niche framework for handling complex transformation is now, seven years later, employed as a straightforward descriptor of the current operational reality.
This recognition mirrors a broader trajectory. The thought-leadership ranking platform Thinkers360 has elevated Spitz to #6 worldwide in National Security—a Top 10 standing alongside his prior rankings in artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, leadership, management, and risk management.
“We are past the point of simple volatility,” says Spitz, Chair of the Disruptive Futures Institute. “As we enter the second half of the decade, we are navigating Metaruptions – deep, interdependent, transdisciplinary system shifts arising from technological, ecological, geopolitical, economic, and societal convergence.”
WHY NOW: THE INFLECTION POINTS ARRIVE
The term Metaruptions is being adopted at this moment because the conditions it described have ceased to be incipient. As Spitz has written, change is typically gradual, difficult, and unevenly distributed—while the pace of disruption is swift and tipping points can trigger rapid cascades.
The forces Spitz identified in 2019 were signals: climate, technology, and AI moving toward irreversibility; complexity, society, and information altering foundational paradigms; quantum computing and geopolitical reordering ushering in new eras. Several of these are now reaching inflection points simultaneously, compounding forces that spill into tipping events. The vocabulary is expanding because the phenomenon itself has materialized.
FROM A FORESIGHT PAPER TO THE STRATEGY LITERATURE
In the Winter 2026 issue of Military Strategy Magazine, U.S. Army War College authors Aaron Blair Wilcox and Chase Metcalf reference Spitz’s 2020 Journal of Futures Studies paper “The Future of Strategic Decision-Making” in their examination of AI and wargaming. Their contention: the U.S. Army must advance planning systems that are antifragile—“systems that improve under chaos”—rather than swap the human system of mission command for a brittle algorithmic one.
Chris Mayer, Director of Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point, reviewed “Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World” and specifically highlighted Spitz’s depiction of “Disruption 3.0”—the cascading effects of interconnected changes that resist linear thought—alongside the 6 i’s toolkit (Intuition, Inspiration, Imagination, Improvisation, Invention, and Impossible).
The same pattern recurs across geographies and disciplines. In Germany, IDOS used the term directly in geopolitical analysis, evaluating the direct and indirect repercussions of a “metaruption” stemming from the United States in a 2024 Policy Brief. In the United Kingdom, the National Preparedness Commission’s work on shifting from prediction to strategic foresight incorporates the definition. In Latin America, Spanish-language cyber strategy research has employed Spitz’s Complex Five risk metaphors—the black jellyfish and the black elephant—to model AI-powered automated offensive operations. Additional citations appear in Greek government foresight, military AI research, tech diplomacy from a Global South viewpoint, strategic planning journals in Turkey, and a Millennium Project report on the future of work.
Each of these references emerged independently, in a different language, discipline, or institution.
STRATEGY IS ONE STREAM AMONG MANY
Beyond strategy, a Forbes contributor named ‘Metaruption’ a Word of the Year for 2026 (subsequently translated by Forbes Japan), and the International Training Centre of the ILO opens its 2026 Futures Toolkit on the future of work with this term. Professional bodies and media spanning finance, accounting, engineering, and other fields have adopted it; the term now circulates in Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Spanish, and Korean. British artist Dylan Gill even stumbled upon it while searching for a title for his painting Metaruptions.
Metaruptions characterize an era rather than a sector or threat category—the same mechanics that reconfigure geopolitics also reshape industries, professions, information, and culture, which explains why the word appears in both a policy brief and a painting within the same year.
GEOPOLITICS OR METARUPTIONS?
With Metaruptions, geopolitics no longer hinges solely on diplomacy or military posture. The landscape is hybrid and liminal—shaped by supply-chain exposure, technology bottlenecks, weaponized trade regimes, and contested control over critical resources. Multipolarization deepens uncertainty by raising questions that orderly geopolitics can no longer answer.
THE ANATOMY OF A CASCADE
How do seemingly disconnected events interact? Metaruptions are defined by structural, interacting discontinuities that perpetually reconfigure the environment. A shift in geotechnology—say, a breakthrough in quantum encryption—can spark a geoeconomic shock, such as lost confidence in digital financial infrastructure, which then generates geopolitical instability through a breakdown of diplomatic transparency and trust. These interactions evolve in complex, nonlinear, and sometimes chaotic ways, triggering feedback loops that reshape everything thereafter.
That cascade is no longer theoretical, which forms the focus of Spitz’s newest frontier keynote, “The Quantum Metaruption: AI, Cyber Convergence, and the Antifragile Leadership Shift.” Quantum has moved from research labs to the board agenda. Under “store now, decrypt later” tactics, sophisticated actors are already harvesting encrypted data, rendering today’s information retroactively vulnerable once meaningful quantum capability arrives—potentially within five to ten years.
THE DFI GEOPOLITICS CENTER FOR GRAND STRATEGY
These citations reflect a transformation that the Disruptive Futures Institute formalized with its Geopolitics Center for Grand Strategy, which equips CEOs, boards, policymakers, and investors to operationalize Anticipatory Governance across the Three Gs*—through to Info-Ruption, the term Spitz coined for the radical change in global data dynamics that weaponizes information. “The importance of epistemic security and cybersecurity is now comparable to that of national security,” he writes in Disrupt With Impact.
*“Three Gs” – Geopolitics, Geoeconomics, and Geotechnology.
THE AAA FRAMEWORK: WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
Metaruptions anchor the AAA capabilities introduced in the same 2020 paper that the strategy literature now cites—Antifragile, Anticipatory, Agility. The AAA Framework emphasizes future-preparedness rather than prediction, helping leaders continue making decisions as conditions shift.
Metaruptions do not tell us what will happen. They tell us what kind of imagination the moment demands.
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APPENDIX: MEDIA BRIEFING NOTES FOR EDITORS
This briefing pack from Roger Spitz and the Disruptive Futures Institute’s body of work provides contextual materials and provenance for editors and partners covering sample citations, the Three Gs, and the Metaruptions and AAA frameworks. Citations reflect independent references by the authors named; they do not imply institutional endorsement.
SELECTED CITATIONS: MILITARY, SECURITY, POLICY & ACADEMIC
A representative sample of the cross-disciplinary adoption of Spitz’s frameworks, not a complete record:
• Military Strategy Magazine (Winter 2026): Wilcox, A. B. & Metcalf, C., “AI Command and Staff – Operational Evidence and Insights from Wargaming,” Vol. 10, Issue 4, pp. 4-10, citing Spitz (2020) on antifragile planning systems. https://doi.org/10.64148/msm.v10i4.1
• Chris Mayer, Director of the Department of English and Philosophy, U.S. Military Academy at West Point, reviewed Disrupt With Impact (Futures Empowered), highlighting ‘Disruption 3.0’ and the 6 i’s toolkit.
• IDOS (German Institute of Development and Sustainability): Klingebiel, S. & Baumann, M-O., “Trump 2.0 in Times of Political Upheaval?”, Policy Brief No. 24/2024 – applying “metaruption” (Spitz, 2024) to geopolitical analysis.
• National Preparedness Commission (UK): From Prediction to Strategic Foresight – carries the metaruptions definition in work on systemic resilience.
• Presidency of the Greek Government: Dimitris Dimitriadis, Special Secretariat for Strategic Foresight – in work and public commentary on horizon scanning and anticipatory governance, referencing the 6 i’s framework (Spitz, 2024).
• Cyber risk management (Spanish-language, Latin America): Cano M., J. J., Universidad de los Andes – ISLA 2025 Proceedings, deploying Spitz’s black jellyfish and black elephant risk metaphors to AI-automated cyber operations; and the RAFA model (Springer, 2023) on antifragility in cyber risk.
• Military AI systems: Maathuis, C., “Towards Modelling Military Disadvantage in Military Operations,” IEEE CAIT 2025, Huizhou.
• Global Policy / tech diplomacy: Garcia, E. V., “Technology for Whom and for What? A Global South View of Tech Diplomacy,” Global Policy (2025).
• Management Decision: Biloslavo, R., Edgar, D., Aydin, E. & Bulut, C., on AI and strategic planning in VUCA environments, citing Spitz (2020).
• MANAS Journal of Social Studies (Turkey, April 2026): Yiğitol, B., comparative study on human managers and AI in strategic decision-making, citing Spitz (2020).
• Millennium Project / Futures of Technologies Conference 2025: Di Berardo, M., Heinonen, S., Taylor, A., Viitamäki, R. et al., “Exploring Socio-Technical Futures of Work,” citing Spitz (2024) on convergence, emerging fields, and the tempo of disruption.
RANKINGS & RECOGNITION
• Thinkers360 – National Security: Roger Spitz ranked #6 globally, a Top 10 placement.
• Global Gurus (2026): #15 in the World’s Top 30 Futurist Professionals, a cohort including Ray Kurzweil, Peter Diamandis, and Michio Kaku; Spitz and the Disruptive Futures Institute also selected for the Top 30 Global Gurus Training Programs and Keynotes to Manifest Real Change.
• Speaker recognition: Ranked the #1 futurist keynote speaker for disruption, foresight, and artificial intelligence by leading agencies, media, and international platforms; featured in Speakers Associates’ 2026 buyer’s guide to AI keynote speakers (“AI Strategy and the Board Agenda”) alongside Cassie Kozyrkov and Daniel Susskind.
CREDENTIALS BEHIND THE GEOPOLITICS PRACTICE
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