Workshopping and Speaking at World Future Society this weekend

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• Foresight success? May 13, 2013
  I did a five-minute “Little Big” at the APF “Play” Gathering on May 3rd in Orlando. I called it “A Framework for Discussing Success.” The ideas emerged from dissertation and I am planning to write a journal article on it, but for now here are the main ideas. I reviewed the foresight literature to see […]
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• 16 things that made me go hmmm at APF’s “Play” May 7, 2013
  Thought I’d share some musings from my experience at the APF “Play” gathering. Borrowing from the old C&C Factory song, here are 16 Things That Made Me Go Hmmm.(I’m not attributing as I don’t want to misquote anyone or get them in trouble) LVC for types of simulation: Live players – football practice; Virtual – people […]
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• Reflections on the Future of Cities April 29, 2013
  The Houston Futures extended family gathered for a weekend of futures fun on April 12 and 13. While a key purpose is to give students, prospective students, alums, faculty and friends a chance to socialize and network in person, there was also plenty of good discussion about the future. The topic theme on “city making” […]
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• Futurist: specialist or generalist? April 22, 2013
  A prospective student raised a question about specialization in foresight in a recent APF listserve conversation. This question is also a frequent one of our Houston Futures grad students. We discussed the question recently in Pro Seminar and did a  ”personal branding” exercise to help us think through how we want to present ourselves to […]
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• Future of Knowledge Work April 18, 2013
  I have a new article that I put together with my frequent collaborator Chris Carbone of Innovaro on the Future of Knowledge Work published in Employment Relations Today. It explores how knowledge work is being reshaped by a variety of social and technological forces that together will alter how it is distributed, organized, and performed in […]
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• Thinking about the Future….soon to be re-stocked April 16, 2013
  So sorry if you’ve gone to Amazon and seen Thinking about the Future selling for over $2,011.22. Of course, feel free to buy it at that price . Unfortunately, it recently went out of stock and I was not notified. I will re-stock when I get back in Houston on Wednesday and it will be […]
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• What do we call it? April 12, 2013
  It’s been great to hear growing interest in developing the field and profession of _______, um, what do you call it? I looked at this question in my dissertation and found it has received intermittent attention over the years (Cornish, 1977; Horton, 1999; Becker, 2002; Schwarz, 2005; Amsteus, 2008; Sardar, 2010; Masini, 2010; Marien, 2010; […]
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• Glass Houses April 5, 2013
  A great post by “The Consumerist” on a social-media driven issue on Future of Artificial Dyes in Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Mary Beth Quirk tells the story of how two bloggers triggered an online petition with over 270,000 signatures that led to a meeting between the bloggers and Kraft. Here’s a telling quote from the […]
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• A Futurist Elevator Speech April 2, 2013
  Someone asked me recently for my elevator speech on “what is a futurist?” Basically, if someone asks you what a futurists is, what’s your 30-second response. [And we require our students in the futures studies program to do one.] I’ll confess that I am not consistent, and that there are a whole bunch of calculations I […]
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• Ten Do’s and Don’ts for an Aging Futurist March 26, 2013
  I just celebrated my birthday and realized that almost half of my life now has been as a practicing futurist – 25 years if you count the two years in the program at UH. In the spirit of eating one’s own cooking, I am forecast that I will at some point be an old or […]
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