Followers of After Capitalism are familiar with concepts such as post-work, UBI (Universal Basic Income) and UBS …
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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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College Should Be for Everyone
I seem to be hearing that “college isn’t for everyone” more frequently these days. Being in a university setting these …
Opposition to Degrowth Is a Sign of Progress
The National Review’s ”Degrowth Is a Dead End” suggests that degrowth as an approach to environmental stewardship “isn’t …
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Introducing Foresight: A Community of Practice Approach
It’s been great to see the rise of Communities of Practice in the Foresight field. They are popping up both within …
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What will we do in post-work? Everything!
I’ve thought a lot about what we might do in the post-work future of After Capitalism: One response, captured here, …
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A Cost of Short-Term Thinking …
... or , another reason why After Capitalism is going to take longer than it should. I/T is supposed to be the …
Scanning, Paywalls, AI, and After Capitalism
It's a somewhat bitter irony that just as many organizations are finally committing to developing a community of …
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After Capitalism: What the Signals Are Saying Q1 2024
I’ve been horizon scanning for After Capitalism for more than a decade now, albeit a bit sporadic in some years. The …
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Can a 20-80 World Work?
Those who have worked in a volunteer organization probably have witnessed that it’s a small percentage of people who do …
Houston Foresight Spring Gathering 2024
It's hard to believe I've been doing this Foresight Spring Gatherings at the University of Houston for 10 years now. …
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Polycrisis Analysis
I'm usually not very timely here in terms of commenting on hot-off-the-press type of events, but I'm going to do it …
Why Futurists Fail … in their forecasts
Last week we talked about some typical resistances to information about change we see on the client or public side. Lest …
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Sources of Resistance to Information about Change
Last night we had a class in World Futures on wildcards in which we reviewed Oliver Markley’s wonderful piece that …
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Stretching our Scanning: Snowball Scanning
I’ve been getting a lot of requests lately to “help us stretch our scanning.” It’s something we’ve been thinking …
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Work ain’t Workin’: Is Stinkbombing Next?
The way we work ain’t workin', right? So far workforce resistance has been mostly passive. But what if it turns active … …
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How much sacrifice …
... are we willing to make? Sacrifice seems to be a concept that is out of fashion. Aren’t things tough enough …
Post-Work: What if we sat around and did nothing?
The opposition to the idea of post-work has lightened. It generates fewer snorts and eyerolls. I can sneak it into …
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Futurists as the voice of reason
Is there a new role emerging for futurists? For many years, I’ve used the slide depicted in the figure to suggest …
Check out the Open Foresight Hub! (Drivers included)
The Open Foresight Hub is an exciting new development for all we futures information hounds. It’s a wiki devoted to …
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Ineffective left driving towards After Capitalism
The last in our series of seven key drivers influencing the move to After Capitalism is the Ineffective Left. The far …
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Climate and Carrying Capacity driving towards After Capitalism
The sixth in our series of seven key drivers influencing the move to After Capitalism is climate change and carrying …
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Stagnation driving towards After Capitalism
The fifth in our series of seven key drivers influencing the move to After Capitalism is technology …
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Automation driving towards After Capitalism
The fourth in our series of seven key drivers influencing the move to After Capitalism is technology …
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Inequality driving towards After Capitalism
The third in our series of seven key drivers influencing the move to After Capitalism is technology …
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Technology Acceleration driving towards After Capitalism
The second in our series of seven key drivers influencing the move to After Capitalism is technology …
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Shifting values driving towards After Capitalism
Back in November, we did a ranking of the key drivers influencing the move to After Capitalism. We start with the …
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The End of the World
is just the beginning according to former Stratfor analyst Peter Ziehan in his “Mapping the Collapse of Globalization.” …
Imagining After Capitalism article
A new Imagining After Capitalism article is out in the Journal of Futures Studies (JOFS). It is the [plant-based] …
A Participatory Economy
Robin Hahnel provides us with a wonderful and useful handbook on the Participatory Economy that “demonstrates concretely …