I’ve been getting a lot of requests lately to “help us stretch our scanning.” It’s something we’ve been thinking …
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Work ain’t Workin’: Is Stinkbombing Next?
The way we work ain’t workin', right? So far workforce resistance has been mostly passive. But what if it turns active … …
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How much sacrifice …
... are we willing to make? Sacrifice seems to be a concept that is out of fashion. Aren’t things tough enough …
Post-Work: What if we sat around and did nothing?
The opposition to the idea of post-work has lightened. It generates fewer snorts and eyerolls. I can sneak it into …
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Futurists as the voice of reason
Is there a new role emerging for futurists? For many years, I’ve used the slide depicted in the figure to suggest …
Check out the Open Foresight Hub! (Drivers included)
The Open Foresight Hub is an exciting new development for all we futures information hounds. It’s a wiki devoted to …
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Ineffective left driving towards After Capitalism
The last in our series of seven key drivers influencing the move to After Capitalism is the Ineffective Left. The far …
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Climate and Carrying Capacity driving towards After Capitalism
The sixth in our series of seven key drivers influencing the move to After Capitalism is climate change and carrying …
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Stagnation driving towards After Capitalism
The fifth in our series of seven key drivers influencing the move to After Capitalism is technology …
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Automation driving towards After Capitalism
The fourth in our series of seven key drivers influencing the move to After Capitalism is technology …
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Inequality driving towards After Capitalism
The third in our series of seven key drivers influencing the move to After Capitalism is technology …
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Technology Acceleration driving towards After Capitalism
The second in our series of seven key drivers influencing the move to After Capitalism is technology …
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Shifting values driving towards After Capitalism
Back in November, we did a ranking of the key drivers influencing the move to After Capitalism. We start with the …
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The End of the World
is just the beginning according to former Stratfor analyst Peter Ziehan in his “Mapping the Collapse of Globalization.” …
Imagining After Capitalism article
A new Imagining After Capitalism article is out in the Journal of Futures Studies (JOFS). It is the [plant-based] …
A Participatory Economy
Robin Hahnel provides us with a wonderful and useful handbook on the Participatory Economy that “demonstrates concretely …
Building Foresight Credibility
It doesn’t take long into a session of what foresight needs before we get to awareness and credibility. It’s been the …
The Global Question for After Capitalism
I teased the global question a few years ago. I reframed the work to be more globally representative. But I might be …
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Profit or Purpose? Open AI & After Capitalism
There are differing views on how to run an economy. I think most of us here see an After Capitalism future. But we’re …
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Ranking After Capitalism Drivers
A few years ago, readers helped me select the final After Capitalism drivers. I’m [finally] finishing up addressing the …
Accrediting Foresight
Last week I briefly mentioned that the University of Houston Foresight program was awarded the first accreditation …
Houston Foresight at the WFSF 50th Anniversary
I was fortunate to spend last week with my University of Houston Foresight friends in Paris at the World Futures Studies …
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The State of Thinking
You might recall a post about “it’s okay to think big.” I need to backtrack and get back to the basics of the state of …
On the Road Again
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 …
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What should futurists be able to do?
There are many possible answers to this question, and I think in a healthy foresight ecosystem there can and should be …
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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+ …
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Foresight’s Last Mile Challenge
One of the biggest changes I’ve seen in foresight practice in more than three decades of work is the shift to more …
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 …
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