Andy’s Recent Content

How to Analyze Scenarios (Inside the Futurist’s Mind)
In this video, I walk you through the Image Analysis template I built to compare future scenario works and clarify visions of the future. Drawing on Fred Polak’s classic The Image of the Future and Wendy Schultz’s work on Images of the Future, we’ll go step‑by‑step through nine elements of a well‑crafted guiding image. You’ll […]

Emerging Workforce: Warriors a Vanishing Breed?
[NOTE: Following on last weeks post about post-work future, thought I’d set the table on where we are and seem to be headed in the short term.] We started talking about warriors, giggers and bots as the workforce of the emerging future a few years back. I spoke fondly and perhaps a bit wistfully of […]

Post-Work Really Means Post-Jobs
Let’s be clear that the post-work future suggested by the Non-Workers Paradise does not mean we will not work, nor will it necessarily be a paradise. [A note on “terms” is at the bottom.] A bit of a downer? I think we need to balance the appeal of the goal with the reality of the […]
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.





