I’m working on the explanation of what’s to come for After Capitalism. As regular readers are aware by now, three …
Integral Futures Questions
It was great to dive back into some Integral Futures in Alternative Perspectives class this semester. The all-too-rare …
Pre-capitalism and post-capitalism
Braudel’s Civilization and Capitalism three-volume series has been in my “to-read” pile for many years. I’d heard many …
Reasonable futures timeframes
What’s an appropriate timeframe for foresight work? It’s a question we futurists often get. It’s usually coming from a …
An Integral Futures lens on security
It seems that each time I teach Integral Futures as part of Alternative Perspectives class, at least one student really …
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More future-oriented than we thought?
Futurists have long lamented the bias of most people to the past (at the expense of the future). This bias seemingly is …
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Avoiding Used Futures in After Capitalism
Part of my goal in putting together the After Capitalism research into a book (admittedly going too slowly!) is identify …
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Knowledge Base of Futures Studies 2020
I am excited to share that I accepted Richard Slaughter’s offer to be the Associate Editor of the next update of the …
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Evolution of Framework Foresight Part 5 Archetypes
Let me begin with proper credit to Professor Jim Dator for the concept [Jim Dator, Alternative Futures at the Manoa …
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12 Steps for Futurists
I would argue that 12 step groups are one of the great social inventions of the last century. This post and the steps …
Evolution of Framework Foresight: Drivers (part 4)
The graphic has the drivers in the rectangles. This is from a project on the future of knowledge work we did about ten …
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Evolution of Framework Foresight, Part 3
Last time we talked about the different approaches we used to develop inputs to create the ingredients for the baseline …
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Clustering, Pattern Recognition, and Synthesizing
These are a few of my favorite things (humming Sound of Music). I have been doing all three a lot lately, and talking …
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State of foresight professionalization
I was recently asked about the state of professionalizing, and realized it has been a while since I has reflected on it. …
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Evolution of Framework Foresight Part 2
With the history on hand, let’s now dig into some fairly significant process tweaks we’re implementing in Framework …
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Houston Foresight Spring Gathering 2019
We think about, practice, and experiment with how to engage people with the future. But most of that attention is …
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Evolution of Framework Foresight (part 1)
Framework Foresight is the core method we use to teach students how to explore the future. It is deliberately designed …
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Algorithms, Big Data, and the perfect sneaker
[insert rant] We have a perfect flow of information in a perfect market to make just the precise transactions whenever, …
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After Capitalism Concepts
The After Capitalism research started by collecting interesting “new or next economy” concepts. They’ve been analyzed, …
The Gig Dichotomy: Gigging because we want to or have to?
I was working my way through the Horizon 2 transition concepts for After Capitalism when a wonderful listserv …
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The boiling frog future….to 2052?
I finally got around to 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years by Jorgen Randers. Randers has been part of the …
Why create visions or images?
We had a nice discussion on the APF list last week that started out on the gig economy and ended up exploring ideas for …
Prosperity without Growth
This week we follow up on Degrowth with Prosperity without Growth from Professor Tim Jackson. It’s a different take in …
Degrowth: A Growing Issue in the Future?
Is it okay yet to talk about degrowth in polite society or mixed company? Alas, I think it is quite okay in postmodern …
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Digging Deeper into Inequality: the 9.9%
Much has been written about inequality, such as Piketty’s wonderful treatise Capital. We hear about the 1%, the 10%, the …
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Evolutionary Reconstruction as Path to Vision
How do we get to our horizon three visions? Gar Alperovitz suggests that “Reform” concepts suggest changes or …
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Foresight: A Unique (possibly crazy) Course of Study
The UH Foresight program made it onto a list of 25 unique and possibly crazy courses of study put out by “The Best …
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A healthy fear of superintelligence
Homo Deus explored the possibility of a new human species emerging. If that wasn’t enough to persuade you that we need …
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Where can we find the fringe? Scanning the fringe part 2
After our scan hit sharing session, which I shared about last week, we jumped into the formal program. Let’s focus on …
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Observations from scanning the fringe (part 1)
The Houston Foresight community devoted a day to Scanning the Fringe for its 2018 Spring Gathering on April 14th. In …
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