It’s that time again. We’re always tweaking our core Framework Foresight process. Every few years the tweaks build up …
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Getting a handle on who is doing foresight
The Houston Foresight program kicked off an effort to explore the State of Foresight last fall. The basic question we …
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Internationalization and the pandemic
It was a pleasure to revisit my colleagues in Thailand virtually and explore how the pandemic might influence the work …
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10 Reflections on the Future of Foresight
At the Knowledge Base of Futures Studies 2020 launch last week, I reflected on some things I learned about the Foresight …
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Knowledge Base of Futures Studies 2020 launches
About a year-and-a-half ago, I shared my excitement about being asked to join Richard Slaughter and co-edit the …
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The New Localism (ain’t so new)
I have little doubt that whatever After Capitalism system emerges will feature a greater emphasis on local matters. This …
Three Futures Lessons from the Pandemic
I’ve gotten a lot of “what do you think” questions. I’ve done my best to maintain good futures thinking and avoid …
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Houston’s 2020 APF Student Recognition Program winners
It is a great pleasure to announce that Houston Foresight Master’s student Miranda Mantey won 3rd place in the …
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Futurists are more like historians than scientists
There is a well-intentioned – and possibly correct -- movement to establish foresight as a science. From blogs to online …
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Covid-19 and the Mean Green Meme
Reading the Covid-19 coverage, in particular as presented by the New York Times, and looking at the state government …
The global question for “After Capitalism”
A critical uncertainty affecting the timing of After Capitalism is whether it can happen locally and regionally, or must …
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Three Horizons of After Capitalism
Here’s how After Capitalism is using the handy Horizons Framework. It is intended primarily to show the evolution of the …
The Sufficiency Economy
Planned economic contraction? Indeed, brace yourself for the challenging but perhaps necessary future of degrowth. This …
Most Significant Futures Works 2020
APF’s has just launched the nominations phase of the 2020 Most Significant Futures Works program! This is our …
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Utopia for Realists
Rutger Bregman, an influential proponent of Universal Basic Income delivers an excellent addition to our After …
Desensitized Futures
While I’ve generally tried to avoid getting caught up in the current hysteria, I've seen a few “why aren’t futurists …
Framework Foresight Video
A key mission of Houston Foresight is to introduce people to spread the use of "high-quality" foresight. In order to do …
Sci Fi Futures Draft Agenda
Our Annual Spring Gathering is an opportunity for our extended futures family to come together and socialize, and dig a …
Introducing the future on social media
A key part of the mission of the Houston Foresight, and my personal mission, is to introduce as many people as possible …
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Imagining After Capitalism Graphic
And now for something completely different. I was playing around with an updated graphic for the three positive visions …
Fully Automated Luxury Communism
Author Aaron Bastani boldly uses the “C” word – communism – as part of his vision for an after capitalism future – Fully …
30 Years as a Futurist
Yikes! Futurist has been my only professional job. I finished the Foresight (then Future Studies) program in 1990 and …
When did it start? Origins of the foresight field
I think we futurists need to do a better job of telling our story. Almost daily it seems (probably more like weekly), I …
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Images and decision-making in foresight
I had a nice conversation with some colleagues on a private listserve on the role of futurists. One camp suggested that …
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The State of Foresight
For our Spring Gathering last year at Houston Foresight, we explored the topic of “Introducing the Future, that is, how …
Let’s explore the future of AI in education
One of the cool things about being a journal editor is not only do you get to see what aspiring authors are interested, …
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Art or Science in Foresight
Of course it's not an either-or. But do the scales tip one way or another in foresight? It depends on the practitioner …
Transition Scenarios via Backcasting
I had an opportunity to do some work on backcasting with my colleagues Johann Schutte and Maria Romero, and with the …
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Sci Fi Futures
Our Annual Spring Gathering is an opportunity for our extended futures family to come together and socialize, and dig a …
Digging into Monitoring and Indicators
We’ve been talking a bunch about scanning. But what about the flip side – monitoring, and more specifically indicators? …
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