The last in our series of seven key drivers influencing the move to After Capitalism is the Ineffective Left. The far …
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Climate and Carrying Capacity driving towards After Capitalism
The sixth in our series of seven key drivers influencing the move to After Capitalism is climate change and carrying …
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Stagnation driving towards After Capitalism
The fifth in our series of seven key drivers influencing the move to After Capitalism is technology …
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Automation driving towards After Capitalism
The fourth in our series of seven key drivers influencing the move to After Capitalism is technology …
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Inequality driving towards After Capitalism
The third in our series of seven key drivers influencing the move to After Capitalism is technology …
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Technology Acceleration driving towards After Capitalism
The second in our series of seven key drivers influencing the move to After Capitalism is technology …
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Shifting values driving towards After Capitalism
Back in November, we did a ranking of the key drivers influencing the move to After Capitalism. We start with the …
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The End of the World
is just the beginning according to former Stratfor analyst Peter Ziehan in his “Mapping the Collapse of Globalization.” …
Imagining After Capitalism article
A new Imagining After Capitalism article is out in the Journal of Futures Studies (JOFS). It is the [plant-based] …
A Participatory Economy
Robin Hahnel provides us with a wonderful and useful handbook on the Participatory Economy that “demonstrates concretely …
The Global Question for After Capitalism
I teased the global question a few years ago. I reframed the work to be more globally representative. But I might be …
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Profit or Purpose? Open AI & After Capitalism
There are differing views on how to run an economy. I think most of us here see an After Capitalism future. But we’re …
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The State of Thinking
You might recall a post about “it’s okay to think big.” I need to backtrack and get back to the basics of the state of …
On the Road Again
I’m about to rack up some frequent flyer miles carrying the foresight message. I have been cutting back on speaking the …
A Technique for Guiding Images of the Future
I'm pleased that “A Technique for Guiding Images: Imagining the Future After Capitalism” has been accepted for …
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Your Horizon Scanning Library?
How do you collect and organize your horizon scanning? At Houston Foresight, we have some particular needs (see the …
Observations on Globality of After Capitalism Signals
I was looking for more global examples to put in the After Capitalism manuscript, so I went through my library of 700+ …
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More and more varieties of capitalism
A couple of years ago I posted about what seemed to be a flurry of new varieties of capitalism being written about. I …
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Red Pill Futures
"All I'm offering is the truth" -- Morpheus in The Matrix But he offered so much more -- an image of a future in …
It’s okay to think big
I may be preaching to the choir, but perhaps I can provide some support for big thinkers … as we become an increasingly …
What Guiding Images Do
Aligned, in motion, and ready for action -- A. Hines Guiding images tie the future to the present. They pull us into …
Why Societies Collapse from Jared Diamond
Our preliminary research at Houston Foresight into how domains evolve over the Three Horizons suggests collapse is not …
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Unilever innovating the future of work
The tour on the road to after capitalism stops today at Unilever, prompted by an outstanding Cold Call podcast that had …
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The Greenest Commercial Building in the World
Now that’s the kind of ambition needed for the transformation to After Capitalism. The building is the Bullitt Center in …
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After Capitalism talk
I am happy to share a 30-minute version of my After Capitalism research. I did this last year for the 20th symposium in …
Four challenges of working at the local level
Most of the ideas I’ve seen for an After Capitalism future put a heavy emphasis on the local level. Most of it comes …
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The hard questions are not data questions
As we think about the future After Capitalism, one tempting approach is to pursue AI, Big Data, and the like to find the …
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After Capitalism Website
Introducing the After Capitalism website A place for all things “After Capitalism.” A key reason is to promote the …
Cavalier about collapse? Consider X-events
Our preliminary research at Houston Foresight into how domains evolve over the Three Horizons suggests collapse is not …
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Use productivity for more or less?
So, we meet again. Another opportunity to decide how we want to use productivity gains on the road to After Capitalism. …