Andy’s Recent Content

Commies and Commons
It is hard to talk about alternatives to capitalism without hints of socialism or communism. You could argue that economic systems are organized based on individuals (capitalism), collectives (communism) or hybrid (socialism) In exploring After Capitalism, we are going to be using the word “commons” a lot more. That does not make us “commies.” There […]

AI Fulfilling the Promise of Knowledge Management?
More experienced (aka older) readers might recall the Knowledge Management movement of the 1990s and 2000s. In short, better tagging and organizing of data would make finding and applying knowledge easier and be a competitive advantage. Turns out those pesky human workers didn’t cotton to the idea of sharing their knowledge into a database for […]

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 […]
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.





