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 …
Continue Reading about A Technique for Guiding Images of the Future →
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+ …
Continue Reading about Observations on Globality of After Capitalism Signals →
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 …
Continue Reading about More and more varieties of capitalism →
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 …
Continue Reading about Why Societies Collapse from Jared Diamond →
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 …
Continue Reading about Unilever innovating the future of work →
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 …
Continue Reading about The Greenest Commercial Building in the World →
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 …
Continue Reading about Four challenges of working at the local level →
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 …
Continue Reading about The hard questions are not data questions →
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 …
Continue Reading about Cavalier about collapse? Consider X-events →
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. …
Scharmer’s Eco-System Approach fits After Capitalism
This semester in our Alternative Perspectives course at Houston Foresight, we ran into Otto Scharmer a couple of times, …
Continue Reading about Scharmer’s Eco-System Approach fits After Capitalism →
After Capitalism is not an ism
This-ism, that-ism, ism, ism, …
Top Ten Drivers of the Future 2023
We all love lists. I posted a drivers list a year-ish ago. I thought it would be fun to revisit and see if anything …
What questions should organizations be asking about After Capitalism?
I was so pleased to speak and discuss After Capitalism with a major corporation yesterday. It’s the first talk directly …
Continue Reading about What questions should organizations be asking about After Capitalism? →
ChatGPT and After Capitalism
Last week we discussed how we’d be looking for examples of how After Capitalism is already emerging. BTW, I would …
Emerging into After Capitalism
I’ve frequently run into the quip that it is easier to imagine end of the world than the end of capitalism. It’s not …
Libraries at the Center of After Capitalism?
I am not sure my library friends are asking for this, but I see a vital role for them in the longer-term future of After …
Continue Reading about Libraries at the Center of After Capitalism? →
Know Yourself and Know Your Audience
It’s been a few years since I taught Alt Perspectives, and I was excited to get back to it, and in particular into …
Continue Reading about Know Yourself and Know Your Audience →
Imagining After Capitalism Article
The journey continues. The plot thickens. I have a nice overview article of Imagining After Capitalism that has just …
Accountability and Action
Sometimes the most useful tools are the simplest. In workshops, I sometimes do a “start, stop, continue” activity as we …
Utopia … No Thanks
I am a futurist, but I love history. They are cousins after all. As we explore the possibilities for After Capitalism, …
To work or not to work
That is the question ... may I offer “post-work” as the answer? The Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting are …
Lessons from the Red Tsar
A few weeks ago I published a piece on benevolent authoritarianism as a possible alternative to the prevalent preferred …