Andy’s Recent Content

Universal Basic _____ … Income or Services?
As we start getting into the activation work of After Capitalism, it will be necessary to make some choices. Over the last decade or so, I’ve used universal basic income a lot, primarily because it’s more well known than its cousin – universal basic services. I don’t know that a choice is necessary – perhaps […]

Mental Models Don’t Change Easily … and They Shouldn’t
I often hear complaints about mental models and their resistance to change. Yes, we are trying to influence and change mental models. But we must also recognize that this is a long process. Mental models should not change easily. It’s a species survival mechanism. We are blasted with so much information that if we changed […]

Futurists and Seeing 2026
“One must see, simply see things the way they are, and not give oneself over to games of the mind. It is not common to see what is there. Naturally we look with our minds – with our interpretations, inferences, preconceptions, comparisons, expectations, and through all our previous experience. To see is a function of […]
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.





