It’s been a few years since I taught Alt Perspectives, and I was excited to get back to it, and in particular into …
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Election “day after” student observations
We had Futures Research class about 24 hours after the elections results started coming in. We discussed some current …
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Covid-19 and the Mean Green Meme
Reading the Covid-19 coverage, in particular as presented by the New York Times, and looking at the state government …
Translation and Transformation
I previously wrote [rather briefly] about letting go, translating, and transforming as three major roles of futurists. …
Foresight Classics: The Next Three Futures
I’ve been meaning to revisit – or visit for the first time -- foresight classics. I started slowly with a two-part …
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Millennials at the postmodern and integral transition
The Sunday New York Times had a piece on Millennial Searchers that sought to dispel the myth that they are lazy, …
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Sacred Values and the Values Types
I had the luxury of a free Sunday morning to soak in the New York Times (yes, it should be a necessity!) and came across …
A second characteristic of the economic future: bifurcation
To bifurcate is “to divide or fork into two branches.” I am not suggesting this is a good thing, but simply that it is …
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Sharing as another indicator of consuming less
Another post on the trend to consuming less -- I sense a trend here. I came across an excellent piece on the topic by …
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Myths and the Future
Elizabeth Rudd of the Association of Professional Futurists (APF) recently shared a link to a nice piece in Strategy …
Some thoughts on World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Values
It’s good news that values are on the agenda of the World Economic Forum, with the formation of a Global Agenda Council …
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[filling a gap in the]…..role of human behavior in foresight
I came across an interesting paragraph relating to our future of values topic in a place, well, I wouldn't have …
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