What do futurists need to know how to do? The APF’s Foresight Competency answers that in a new article: Building …
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Jobs or Tasks?
The Shift Commission released a nice report on the future of work looking ahead 10-20 years. Four almost-inevitable …
Scanning the Fringe: The Signals Are Talking
At Houston Foresight, we’ve announced that our Gathering next spring will be on “Scanning the Fringe.” So I’m looking …
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Postcapitalism and a world without work
Neoliberalism, the baseline, has failed. But the left has failed to capitalize (sorry for the double entendre there). …
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Differentiating new equilibrium from the baseline
We’ve had some fun with archetypes before. Time again! A fun aspect of the foresight community is that futurists are …
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Preparing for a World that Doesn’t Yet Exist
Preparing for a World That Doesn’t Exist – Yet made me think. And for that, I judge it a success. It was interestingly …
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Masters of Transition?
I’ve been involved in Summer chats with students about their progress in the program and about the future in general. …
Announcing “Scanning the Fringe”
On the heels of a very successful "Good Futures Work" meeting, the Houston Foresight program is ready to announce next …
Aspiring to Betterness
The journey exploring what’s after capitalism keeps getting more interesting. The plot continues to thicken. …
Economy or Society: Aftershock
Do we want to be an economy or society? For me, you can view the economy camp as a modern values worldview based on …
The Next Book: What’s After Capitalism?
After five or so years of keeping one eye on concepts for what might follow capitalism, it's time! The topic is so super …
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Good Futures Work
The Houston Foresight Program is having its annual Spring Gathering this weekend on the theme of “Good Futures Work.” I …
Revisiting the End of Work
I published an “End of Work as We Know It” piece back in 2015 for the Career Planning and Adult Development Journal. A …
Futurist as voice of reason
There are a lot of different roles for the futurists. In a previous post, we discussed the roles of letting go, …
Money money money & capitalism
Framework Foresight and other foresight methods suggest that any exploration into the future be accompanied by a look …
Geeking out on Three Horizons
Just finished Bill Sharpe’s Three Horizons: The Patterning of Hope, 2013. I often refer to a slide below as my “desert …
Advancing Corporate Foresight
I am very pleased to have nominated “Corporate Foresight” by Rene Rohrbeck and his colleagues for an APF Most …
Postcapitalism: It isn’t just the economy
I’m grateful to Andrew Curry for the recommendation for Paul Mason's Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future. My journey …
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Whiplash: A Tale of [One of] Two Worlds
As a consumer of future visions, one is typically offered one of two main dishes: the super-fast, blurry, world of …
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Horizon timing
We have no shortage of big issues ahead: the Singularity, post-capitalism, possible ecosystem collapse. These are …
Reflecting on Futurists in Media 2016
As futurists, we learn to be patient and take the long view. So, when something catches our attention, we catch our …
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Futurist as Public Voice
I was glancing through the posts to our Futurists in Media project, and I noticed the strong presence of two …
Don’t be a meatbot
My elegant title suggests a simple strategy of looking at the unfolding pathway of automation and don’t follow a …
Looking ahead on City View
I had a nice opportunity to talk about the future with host Art Rascon on his City View community affairs television …
Your story and your work
How does your life story fit with your work? That question stuck with me after reading Bob Johansen’s “Get There Early.” …
Foundations of plenty challenged
Continuing on the next economy theme this week with The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was …
Development ≠ progress
We teach Progress and Development as separate theories in our Social Change class. I sometimes joke that Development is …
Foresight classics: 20/20 foresight characterizes uncertainty
Not surprisingly, we discussed uncertainty during Futures Research class this semester. Hugh Courtney’s 20/20 Foresight: …
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Luck, practice, and the futurist
Success in the future is directly related informed preparation and hard work, right? And the futurists who succeed got …
Designing Foresight and Foresighting Design
I’m happy to share that my collaboration with [former] design student (and now Dr.) Danilo Zindato exploring the uses of …
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