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Andy’s Recent Content

After Capitalism Shift #9 The Future Is Local

November 4, 2025

During the initial research for After Capitalism, it was striking how many of the concepts had a local approach and scale as part of their recommendations. More than a dozen years later, it’s no longer surprising. Localization, the shift to local, distributed, and decentralized, is a top ten global trend. It comes up in almost […]

Podcast: Everyone’s a Futurist

October 30, 2025

We all think about the future. But futurists do it in a more structured way. In this conversation with Dr. Wendy Slusser of UCLA’s Livewell podcast, we explored questions of what it’s like to be a futurist. The podcast is available on the Livewell website, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. It is awesome to see the growing interest […]

Abundance Doesn’t Mean More Stuff

October 28, 2025

Review: Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson This new entry into the Abundance territory is a wildly successful bestseller, written in the classic biz book bestseller style of charming or heart-wrenching anecdotes to illustrate the one basic idea of the book. The idea is that we need to build and grow our way to Abundance, […]

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ABOUT ANDY HINES

Dr. Andy Hines is Associate Professor and Program Coordinator at the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Foresight, bringing together the experience he earned as an organizational, consulting, and academic futurist. He is also speaking, workshopping, and consulting through his firm Hinesight.

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After Capitalism Website

May 24, 2023

Introducing the After Capitalism website Imagining After Capitalism; image by Denise Worrell A place for all things “After Capitalism.” A key reason is to promote…

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Ten Books for Prospective Futurists, Updated

March 3, 2022

It’s time to update my list of ten books that a prospective futurist should read. The principle is the individual is starting from a tabula…

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Thinking about the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight

October 7, 2019

Thinking about the Future, by Andy Hines and Peter Bishop, distills the expertise of three dozen senior foresight professionals into a set of essential guidelines…

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ConsumerShift

October 7, 2019

Values are changing in a consistent direction over time. Understanding these changes will provide critical insight for understanding the future consumer landscape and designing products,…

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2025: Scenarios of US and Global Society Reshaped By Science and Technology

October 7, 2019

Written in the form of a history book, 2025 is an engaging retropective of the years 1990-2025. Examining trends in medicine, housing, food service, economics,…

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Teaching about the Future

October 7, 2019

This book brings together more than thirty-five years of experience in teaching about the future from the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Studies of…

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