The best tributes are those with the person being honored in a state of "alive and well." Thankfully, that is the case …
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Sustainable Commons or Circular Commons?
Decision time! For at least the last few years I’ve been referring to the environmentally-driven image of After …
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Imperatives of Capitalism
I’ve been working on the growth, enclosure, and monetization ideas that are central challenges addressed by the …
Defining foresight
I recently had a presentation for a group new to foresight. I had a brief time to explain the “methodology” and in the …
APF Most Significant Futures Works 2021
The Association of Professional Futurists (APF) has just launched the nominations phase of the 2021 Most Significant …
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How many varieties of capitalism?
I was reading a story about rainbow capitalism and it struck me that new varieties of capitalism seem to spring up …
A Futurist Wildcard Policy
The pandemic has generated a fair bit of discussion about wildcards. It raises the very fair policy question for …
Values Shifts the Key to After Capitalism?
I think so! As I get closer to the end and conclusions are dancing around in head, more and more I’m in some sense …
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Analyzing After Capitalism Images
It’s finally getting close, as I get to the penultimate chapter of Imagining After Capitalism which covers the Horizon 3 …
The STEEP Cheat: Build your Trend Inventory
Last time, we talked about our typical three-month project. We have four weeks to do the bulk of the scanning. That’s a …
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The typical three month foresight project
In our teaching as well as in our project work, we talk about the “typical” 3-month project. We joke that there is no …
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Who is the futurist’s work for?
Short answer: it’s you, not them. “You” is the person/group who hired the futurist. We are typically hired by …
Design Pizazz for the Framework Foresight Cone
The process is never done (see the last tweak). Sometime we get lucky with students who are not only supremely …
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Investing that aligns with the emerging future
As a teacher in the Houston Foresight program, I hope to see students apply what they learn on whatever journey they …
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Challenges to “Humanity Separate from Nature”
The After Capitalism work requires challenging myths, assumptions, and beliefs that will be uncomfortable to let go of. …
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Five challenges to “jobs are required”
The After Capitalism work requires challenging myths, assumptions, and beliefs that will be uncomfortable to let go of. …
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Three challenges to “economic growth is required”
The After Capitalism work requires challenging myths, assumptions, and beliefs that will be uncomfortable to let go of. …
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Technology and After Capitalism
NOTE: Longer-than-typical post as I try to briefly summarize the impact of accelerating technology change on After …
A Futures Magic Wand
If you had a magic wand that could successfully challenge one current widespread assumption about the future, what would …
“Final” After Capitalism Concepts
Nine years of multiple starts and stops (more stops), hundreds of scan hits, dozens of books, 84 blog posts, uncountable …
Alter-Worlds
The newly added “Alter-Worlds” concept of After Capitalism comes from Shaw and Waterstone's manifesto “Wageless Life.” …
Visions of the future over time
Back in 1995, influential economist Robert Heilbroner was given the opportunity to look at the role of visions in …
Directory of After Capitalism Blog Posts
I am [finally] get closer to finishing the book. I thought it would to useful to gather and review the blog posts I've …
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Personas in foresight
Is it just me, or has the use of personas in foresight gone quiet? We used to use them quite regularly in my consulting …
Economic growth and the future
In the the After Capitalism research, there seems to be pretty clear consensus that economic growth has to be either …
Doughnut Economics: Light and Tasty
I debated whether to include doughnut economics from Kate Raworth as one Horizon 3 images of After Capitalism. A recent …
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After Capitalism Drivers
Do you want to play a game? (yes, a Saw reference) While I’ve continued scanning for the After Capitalism book, a few …
Scenario Based Strategy
I am still hunting for strategy books that team up with – or at least consider – foresight. I reviewed Thinking in Bets …
Scenario archetypes across 3 horizons
When we explain our four archetype scenarios, often someone will ask whether there is a pattern in how the four …
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APF Most Significant Futures Works Winners 2020
One of my favorite things to do each year is to coordinate the APF’s Most Significant Futures Works program. We recently …
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