Had a fascinating discussion last night with a team advising Lumina Foundation on its compelling and ambitious Goal 2025 …
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Thinking about Time and the Future
At our Spring 2013 Houston Foresight Gathering, strategist Todd Gentzel gave a brilliant presentation based on Philip …
Future of Education: Goodbye, Summer Vacation
I squeezed onto CNBC yesterday with a few comments as part of "Will the college bubble burst: …
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Concluding the Future of Knowledge Work
Knowledge work is emerging as the central focus of developed economies, with emerging markets making forays into it as …
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Future of Knowledge Work: Personalized Professions
Personalized Professions describes a “transformation" scenario archetype [see description below] Successful new …
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Thinking about Predictive Analytics
My interest in predictive analytics was first piqued by a presentation by Garry Golden at the 2008 APF Gathering on Big …
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“Teaching about the Future” wins the APF Most Significant Futures Works Award
Teaching about the Future was awarded first prize in the “methodology and practice” category in this year’s Association …
Future of Knowledge Work: Socially-Centric Work
Socially-Centric Work describes a “new equilibrium” scenario archetype [see description below] Digitization and the …
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Future of Knowledge Work: Back to Basics
Back to Basics describes a “collapse” scenario archetype [see description below] Innovative approaches to knowledge …
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What Will Work Look Like in 2020 and Beyond?
I had the cover story in the August 2014 issue of BeInkandescent.com with my former colleague Chris Carbone. We explore …
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Future of Knowledge Work: Virtual Teams Collaborating
Virtual Teams Collaborating describes a “continuation” scenario archetypes [see description below] Work is …
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Recapping Houston Foresight at WFS 2014
The Houston Foresight Community was once again well-represented at the WFS/AFP annual summer meetings. This time it was …
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The Future of Knowledge Work Drivers: Tools
The research & scanning for the “Future of Knowledge led to the identification of more than 120 trends that were in …
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Knowledge Work Drivers: Models
The research & scanning for the “Future of Knowledge Work" led to the identification of more than 120 trends that …
Knowledge Work Drivers: Workers
The research & scanning for the “Future of Knowledge led to the identification of more than 120 trends that were in …
Future Knowledge Work Drivers: Spaces
The research & scanning for the "Future of Knowledge led to the identification of more than 120 trends that were in turn …
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And the data rolls in: after the early opportunity has passed
In our work as futurists, it is routine to have our forecasts, findings, and recommendations questioned, particularly …
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Milestones in the Development of Knowledge Work
This is the second in a series of posts about the future of the knowledge work. They are based on an article I did with …
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An Ninth Characteristic of the Future Economy: Different Skill Mixes
Since this is the last post in the series on characteristics of the emerging economy, I’ll start with links to the …
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Storytellers, makers, and collaborators
What should your kids be when they grow up? Choose one of the above -- better yet, incorporate all three into a brand …
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We’re off to see the Makers
I am so excited about this year's APF’s Annual Gathering, which will explore how the Maker Movement, Social …
A Seventh Characteristic of the Future Economy: More Virtual
Virtualization of work and the economy is pretty much inevitable, barring a near civilizational collapse. The momentum …
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Revisiting “Thinking about the Future”
I'm real grateful to John Smart of FERN for helping me get Thinking about the Future into electronic format and getting …
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Some thoughts on APF as it explores its future
The APF (Assn of Professional Futurists) has been discussing its future as part of our strategic planning process. It …
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A Sixth Characteristic of the Future Economy: More Local
There are all sorts of indicators suggesting a growing preference for things local. It’s part of the long term values …
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A fourth characteristic of the future economy: “openness”
There will be more opportunities for more active participation in the economy through small business & …
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Revisiting Last and First Men and Starmaker, Part 2
Our protagonist from First & Last Men moves on to the cosmos, travelling to other solar systems and worlds, in …
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Revisiting Last and First Men and Starmaker, Part 1
I’ve been on kick of re-reading “futures classics,” having gone through Future Shock and Panarchy (well, maybe that’s …
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A third characteristic of the economic future: “smartness”
I’m not exactly jumping out on a limb here! Let’s put a little description on smartness. In my talk, I suggested …
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What do we call the Next Economy?
In my previous post on “Planning for Two Economic Futures” I promised to provide some of the names that have been …