Andy’s Recent Content
Rewilding: From Ridiculous to Useful
Futurist Jim Dator is famous [in part] for quipping: “Any useful idea about the future at first seems ridiculous.” As we futurists seek out the fringes, we will often confront those useful seemingly ridiculous ideas. Some stay ridiculous, but some become useful. In my After Capitalism research, when I first came across Degrowth, for instance, […]
Involuntary Enoughness
I wrote and talked a lot about Enoughness when I was in the midst of my Values work about a dozen years ago. I cited it Enoughness as one of the five key changes of the consumer landscape in my 2012 ConsumerShift book Enoughness came back to my attention in the last few years in […]
Why Transformation?
Futurists love the idea of transformation. We get into the field because we are fascinated by change, and transformation is systems change on a large scale. Most people, however, are not fans of change, and most certainly not fans of large-scale systems change. Thus we have a mismatch. We talk about resistance to change. We […]
ABOUT ANDY HINES
Dr. Andy Hines is Associate Professor and Program Coordinator at the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Foresight, bringing together the experience he earned as an organizational, consulting, and academic futurist. He is also speaking, workshopping, and consulting through his firm Hinesight.
