More from our “Mapping Archetype Scenarios Across the Three Horizons” research. Today, we look at how to apply it. …
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Is Collapse the Most Common Pathway to Transformation?
I promised more from our Mapping archetype scenarios across the three horizons research (still free at …
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Mapping archetype scenarios across the three horizons
I am so happy to be able to provide free access to our just published article in Futures: Mapping archetype scenarios …
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What Guiding Images Do
Aligned, in motion, and ready for action -- A. Hines Guiding images tie the future to the present. They pull us into …
Houston Archetype Technique Updated
Not new, but updated ... as promised in a previous post. To recap, for several years we and our audiences at the …
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Adaptive and transformative futures
This is one of the questions futurists wrestle with periodically. What is our proper purpose? Should we be helping our …
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Purposes of Foresight work and Time Horizons
What are the purposes of foresight work? Back in 2009 futurist Richard Slaughter attempted to answer that question by …
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Foresight Slides for a Desert Island
You are exiled to a desert island and you were given permission to print out three slides to take with you. What would …
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Scenarios start now
Sometimes those new to foresight get the impression that when we create 10-year scenarios, we are somehow just talking …
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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After Capitalism: Evolution or Revolution?
Decay, collapse, the end of, revolution. It seems that every day now I see a story about the end of capitalism. Since I …
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Change is slower than we think
We are constantly being urged to speed up. Change is happening so fast! The speed of change is accelerating! Change is …
Three Horizons of After Capitalism
Here’s how After Capitalism is using the handy Horizons Framework. It is intended primarily to show the evolution of the …
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 …
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 …
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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Introducing the Future
I’m sure there a mixed feelings at a conference when it’s time for the futurist session. What is a futurist …
Reframing After Capitalism
I introduced a new framing of the “After Capitalism” project a few weeks ago in a post on “transition.” Let’s look more …
P2P Platforms in Transition to After Capitalism
Last week we talked about the sharing economy as a transition stage to “after capitalism.” Intermediaries are an …
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The Sharing Economy Transition
In my emerging scheme for organizing the concepts for what’s next and after capitalism, I am placing the sharing economy …
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 …
Horizon timing
We have no shortage of big issues ahead: the Singularity, post-capitalism, possible ecosystem collapse. These are …
Three Horizons of Work
I had the pleasure of participating on a panel exploring the future of work at the GAO for IFPTE Local 1921annual union …