Yes, but it ain't easy! It’s the number one question on the mind of prospective foresight students. Futurists are …
Adding some wow to our projects
Every now and then I like to scan the home library and see if anything I hadn’t read deserves to be promoted, or if …
Exploring the Future…with MISC
The bonds are strengthening between foresight and design. I’ve just received the first physical shipment of beautiful …
Transformative scenario planning
I finally got to Transformative Scenario Planning by Adam Kahane. It’s one of those books that stayed too long in my …
The Aspirational Archetype
I’ve written previously about the scenario archetype technique. A few years ago, In World Futures class, we started …
Can we all get along? The key role of group norms
Getting along is pretty important in all walks of life, including it turns out, if you want to have a high-functioning …
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What is a futurist?
Last year my grad assistant Maria Romero produced a series of short videos (none more than two minutes) about the …
Mastery and Foresight Practice
Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment does not quite fit in with the foresight classics I’ve been …
Second edition of Thinking about the Future
An updated second edition of Thinking about the Future is now available on Amazon. The foreseeable depletion of the …
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Foresight Classics: Rescuing All Our Futures
Rescuing all our Futures: The Future of Futures Studies was edited by Zia Sardar and published in 1999. It makes a …
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Shifts in teaching the future
Teaching should not stand still of course, but it is part of an academic mission is to stay true to what is the core of …
Foresight Classics: Macrohistory and Macrohistorians
It’s about time that I got to Macrohistory and Macrohistorians: Perspectives on Individual, Social, and Civilizational …
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Soft Path Indicator “Hits:” More on a Guaranteed Basic Income
If you’ll allow the Soft Path my choice of the global socioeconomic transformation archetype, I’d suggest we an …
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Dictionary of obsolescent concepts: television
Some may say that Captain Obvious has paid us a visit with this topic. Forecasting the death of television goes way …
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Foresight Classics: The Next Three Futures
I’ve been meaning to revisit – or visit for the first time -- foresight classics. I started slowly with a two-part …
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Houston Foresight Fall Semester Reflections
It’s time to turn grades in (and deal with the last-minute pre-deadline submissions) at the Houston Foresight program. …
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An organizational futurist role for integrating foresight into corporations
As many readers here likely know, I did my dissertation on the experience and possibilities of organizational futurists. …
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Values and Design Thinking
The increasing partnership between foresight and design over the last several years has nudged more and more futurists …
Three Horizons of Work
I had the pleasure of participating on a panel exploring the future of work at the GAO for IFPTE Local 1921annual union …
Dictionary of obsolescent concepts: Vacation Days
“You can only roll over x% of your vacation days, so please use them before the end of the year.” How many of us have …
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Thinking about futurists and jobs
Jobs have been on my mind lately. I’ve been looking through job descriptions as part of my work on the APF …
Do not be a “nothing new here” futurist
One of the most vexing comments I hear from fellow listeners to a talk is that there was “nothing new here,” …
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Lords of Foresight?
I recently finished reading Walter Keichel’s The Lords of Strategy on the recommendation of Peter Bishop. And like all …
Media, the Singularity, and Futurists
I did a brief commentary on a recent article feature “futurist and Google exec Ray Kurzweil’s” latest comments around …
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The push and pull of the future
We reviewed Sohail Inayatullah’s Six Pillars in Alternative Perspectives class last night. The first pillar, mapping, …
Careful in mixing ideology and values
My first reaction to a Sunday NY Times piece asked “Are Western Values Losing their Sway?” was to ask whether the …
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Good ideas on how good ideas spread
I had the good fortune to be following Alex “Sandy” Pentland at the APQC Knowledge Management Conference last May. I was …
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Are we too client focused?
I have been emphasizing the need for futurists and foresight to better deliver on client needs and expectations for the …
APF Most Significant Futures Works Awards 2015
I have been involved with the APF Most Significant Futures Works awards (MSFW) program since we started it in 2007 and …
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The value of a foresight education
I recently posted some findings on the Houston Foresight blog from an alumni survey. The survey was undertaken as a …