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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Capitalism coming full circle?
Some thoughts on Volume 2, The Wheels of Commerce from Braudel’s Civilization and Capitalism series (post on Volume 1) …
Integral Futures Questions
It was great to dive back into some Integral Futures in Alternative Perspectives class this semester. The all-too-rare …
Reasonable futures timeframes
What’s an appropriate timeframe for foresight work? It’s a question we futurists often get. It’s usually coming from a …
More future-oriented than we thought?
Futurists have long lamented the bias of most people to the past (at the expense of the future). This bias seemingly is …
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Knowledge Base of Futures Studies 2020
I am excited to share that I accepted Richard Slaughter’s offer to be the Associate Editor of the next update of the …
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Evolution of Framework Foresight Part 5 Archetypes
Let me begin with proper credit to Professor Jim Dator for the concept [Jim Dator, Alternative Futures at the Manoa …
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12 Steps for Futurists
I would argue that 12 step groups are one of the great social inventions of the last century. This post and the steps …
Clustering, Pattern Recognition, and Synthesizing
These are a few of my favorite things (humming Sound of Music). I have been doing all three a lot lately, and talking …
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State of foresight professionalization
I was recently asked about the state of professionalizing, and realized it has been a while since I has reflected on it. …
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Evolution of Framework Foresight Part 2
With the history on hand, let’s now dig into some fairly significant process tweaks we’re implementing in Framework …
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Houston Foresight Spring Gathering 2019
We think about, practice, and experiment with how to engage people with the future. But most of that attention is …
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Evolution of Framework Foresight (part 1)
Framework Foresight is the core method we use to teach students how to explore the future. It is deliberately designed …
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Foresight: A Unique (possibly crazy) Course of Study
The UH Foresight program made it onto a list of 25 unique and possibly crazy courses of study put out by “The Best …
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Where can we find the fringe? Scanning the fringe part 2
After our scan hit sharing session, which I shared about last week, we jumped into the formal program. Let’s focus on …
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Observations from scanning the fringe (part 1)
The Houston Foresight community devoted a day to Scanning the Fringe for its 2018 Spring Gathering on April 14th. In …
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The Purpose of Purpose?
Surely, purpose would fit with our set of Horizon 3 Visions, right? In fact we originally referred to the “Sustainable …
Tool Time: Diigo for Collecting Scan Hits
One of the sessions at this weekend’s “Scanning the Fringe” event hosted by the Houston Foresight program with the …
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The Future and Reality
The Houston Foresight Program’s Alternative Perspectives class opens with a week on the nature of reality. Each week …
What is a futurist?
When someone asks you what a futurist is, how do you answer? Do you answer differently each time? Maybe you vary it …
Building Foresight Capacity Is a Long Game
Each spring in Proseminar class we explore the past, present, and future of the foresight field. It provides an …
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Setting up a horizon scanning system
One of the great challenges of foresight work has been to establish a consistent ongoing horizon scanning system within …
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Looking for the best foresight work
APF’s has just launched the nominations phase of the 2018 Most Significant Futures Works program! This is our …
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Shrinking the [formal] Economy
We have made money more important than it should be. The economy is bigger than it should be. Charles Eisenstein in …
Research Projects at Houston Foresight
My project work these days is with the research capability we're building at the University of Houston Foresight …
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Visions looks forward, not backward
This Sunday’s NY Times, alongside a piece chortling about the problems that Roy Moore is causing Republicans, featured …
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P2P Platforms in Transition to After Capitalism
Last week we talked about the sharing economy as a transition stage to “after capitalism.” Intermediaries are an …
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Are you Ready for Foresight Boot Camp?
It's almost time for the January 2018 UH Foresight Certificate boot camp? I suspect some readers of this blog have …
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Changing sense of place: the Virtual Replicator
Interesting how many times I’ve rewritten this! I keep seeing different angles, but not convinced that’s it, trying …
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State of the Future, 19th edition
Jerry Glenn asked me to alert the APF that the Millennium Project’s new State of the Future report is out. I confess …