It may serve we supporters of After Capitalism to tamper down the rhetoric on the evils of capitalism. (I know it’s not …
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Values and After Capitalism
The three guiding images for After Capitalism each have their own story and appeal. Today, let’s look at the values …
Champions and Futurists in Setting up Organizational Foresight
Hard to believe it’s almost a decade since I wrote my dissertation on The Role of an Organizational Futurist in …
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Lazy Socialists
The unfortunate aspects of Whole Food’s CEO John Mackey’s comments about youth being “lazy socialists” is that they are …
Warriors, Giggers, and Bots
What will the workforce of the future look like? I use a simple taxonomy that is focused more on the knowledge …
Imagining After Capitalism video
I had a great visit with the foresight folks at the University of Turku's Foresight Program. As part of the visit, I …
Foresight Certificate Course August 3
Houston Foresight seminar starts August 3rd! This 5 day, 100% virtual boot camp immerses you in the basics of …
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History is vital to the future
I just finished Wilkinson and Kupers’ very nice “The Essence of Scenarios: Learning from the Shell Experience,” which …
Automated Scanning: The State of Play
We at Houston Foresight get asked fairly frequently about what is the best automated scanning tool. Our response is that …
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The Future Is [NOT] Faster Than You Think
Abundance proponent Peter Diamandis brings us another volume – The Future is Faster Than You Think in his exponential …
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Aligned and in motion
A description of what we do as futurists that I like: we help clients align with the emerging future (clients can be …
Traditional values have problems, too
I have “picked” on the postmoderns a few times with posts about the “mean green meme.” Green, by the way, comes from the …
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Money still does not buy happiness
For years I’d been relying on the World Values Survey data that showed that when one is poor more money increases …
It will take work to get to post-work
There is no magic wand. There is no switch to flip. It’s more than a few policy tweaks. It’s more than good …
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The Red and Blue Values Split
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich recently wrote about “Facing America's Second Civil War.” While he sees it more as a …
Gathering Together Again … At Last
Houston Foresight had its annual [face-to-face] Spring Gathering two weekends ago for the first time in three years. Not …
Think critically and integrally
I saw a slogan today to “demand data and think critically.” Demands for data too often serve as a lazy substitute for …
Are we caring less about our jobs?
I’ve been trying to understand what’s going on with the “Great Resignation.” Boomers are [finally] retiring. More people …
Images and Utopia Tests
I really enjoyed the excellent work of Rutger Bregman on utopias (reviewed here). Let's focus on his point on how …
Adaptive and transformative futures
This is one of the questions futurists wrestle with periodically. What is our proper purpose? Should we be helping our …
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Virtual Professional Certificate in Foresight Starts April 6th!
We still have spots open for our next Foresight seminar starting April 6th! This virtual boot camp immerses you in the …
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Futurist Calls to Action
As so often happens in the classroom, the best ideas come from the students. In a reflection on playing with a climate …
Ten Books for Prospective Futurists, Updated
It’s time to update my list of ten books that a prospective futurist should read. The principle is the individual is …
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Futurists and their thirsty horses
You can take the horse to water, but you can’t make it drink! How many times have we futurists said this or something …
Post-work: Can We and Should We?
Readers know my answer, but what do you think? [Be great to hear your views]. Here’s my blog-sized case for “yes and …
Top Ten Drivers of the Future?
I recently had the opportunity to brief a group on the key drivers shaping World Futures. I have taught a class by that …
2021 APF “Most Significant Futures Works” Winners
[NOTE: Sorry for the absence, but as you can see Hinesight got a much needed-facelift!] Back in 2007 I got together with …
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Looking forward rather than backward
I’ve talked about the mean green meme a few times in the last year as an unfortunate detour in the long-term development …
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State of Foresight in the US Government
If you've heard me talk about the state of foresight over the last few years, you'll not be surprised by the …
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Futurists, get in the box!
For a lifetime we have heard, and likely been advising, that we and our clients should “get out of the box.” In …