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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Finding the Fringe Takes Time
Last time we talked about snowball scanning as a way to find the fringe in horizon scanning. As I thought more about, I …
Snowball scanning
We have been doing a lot of thinking and work on horizon scanning at Houston Foresight. We revised our process several …
Capitalism in Context
And [finally] some thoughts on Volume 3, The Perspective of the World from Braudel’s Civilization and Capitalism series …
Progress Report on Virtual Classes
Last semester we took the bold step of doing away with the physical classroom and conducting all classes virtually via …
Measurement, Trust, and Meatbots
Reliance on measurement from lack of trust in our own intuition is turning us into meatbots. The desire to measure is …
A Futurist Journey to Thailand
I’m about to finish up a wonderful month-long visit to Bangkok on a Fulbright Specialist Grant. The Thai Office of …
Futurists doing Foresight: My take on the name game
If I could wave the magic wand and settle the name game, I would say that we are futurists doing foresight. That is, the …
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Walking Away from Capitalism
How will we get to “After Capitalism?” Perhaps we’ll simply walk away? That’s the idea of Cory Doctorow’s excellent and …
Highlights from Houston Foresight Spring Gathering 2019
Introducing the Future was the topic of the 2019 Houston Foresight Spring Gathering on April 12-12. Since we spend so …
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Capitalism coming full circle?
Some thoughts on Volume 2, The Wheels of Commerce from Braudel’s Civilization and Capitalism series (post on Volume 1) …
Ten things we could do if we did not have to work
It’s great to see my piece “Getting Ready for a Post-Work Future” published in Foresight and STI Governance. I blogged …
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