Nine years of multiple starts and stops (more stops), hundreds of scan hits, dozens of books, 84 blog posts, uncountable …
Scenario Based Strategy
I am still hunting for strategy books that team up with – or at least consider – foresight. I reviewed Thinking in Bets …
Scenario archetypes across 3 horizons
When we explain our four archetype scenarios, often someone will ask whether there is a pattern in how the four …
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APF Most Significant Futures Works Winners 2020
One of my favorite things to do each year is to coordinate the APF’s Most Significant Futures Works program. We recently …
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Futurist value proposition
Building on my Change is slower than we think post, can we take it a step further and revisit the futurist value …
Using the Knowledge Base of Futures Studies 2020
It was a great pleasure to work with futurist Richard Slaughter in curating the Knowledge Base of Futures Studies (KBFS) …
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Election “day after” student observations
We had Futures Research class about 24 hours after the elections results started coming in. We discussed some current …
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Futures Chain of Custody
There is no proof in the futures business! [This includes the sexy "future-proofing" concept making the rounds - not …
Sexy Foresight
I am pleased to see a collaboration with former guest student Alex Ferganani and friends captured in a new article in …
Change is slower than we think
We are constantly being urged to speed up. Change is happening so fast! The speed of change is accelerating! Change is …
Updating the Framework Foresight cone
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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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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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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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 …
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 …
Snowball scanning
We have been doing a lot of thinking and work on horizon scanning at Houston Foresight. We revised our process several …
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 …