We are constantly being urged to speed up. Change is happening so fast! The speed of change is accelerating! Change is …
News Flash: Futurists Are Dying Again
Almost on cue, after a few days of saying nice things about Alvin Toffler, the NY Times pointed out the demise of …
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Observations from tracking mentions of futurists in media
The Houston Foresight program initiated a project to track, collect and analyze mentions of futurists in the media back …
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Sharing: Keep the good, leave the hype
It’s kind of fun to reflect on the meme hype cycle -- like Gartner’s Hype Hycle but for ideas rather than technologies. …
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The role of values in interpreting values
Came across an interesting example of how two analysts/organizations looking at the same data can interpret it quite …
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The “New Normal” Obscures the Point
This popular phrase, which my old firm considered as a title for a multi-client meeting in 2009, may be giving us the …
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Fear of the Future….Results from No Image of the Future
A piece from the beloved Fox News arrived in my inbox--It's Fear Over Our Country's Future That's Driving the Tea Party …
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Un-natural headline
The Nov-Dec issue of The Futurist has a news item "Downside of Demand for 'Natural' Food." Beside the inclusion of …