I was fortunate to spend last week with my University of Houston Foresight friends in Paris at the World Futures Studies …
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The State of Thinking
You might recall a post about “it’s okay to think big.” I need to backtrack and get back to the basics of the state of …
On the Road Again
I’m about to rack up some frequent flyer miles carrying the foresight message. I have been cutting back on speaking the …
A Technique for Guiding Images of the Future
I'm pleased that “A Technique for Guiding Images: Imagining the Future After Capitalism” has been accepted for …
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What should futurists be able to do?
There are many possible answers to this question, and I think in a healthy foresight ecosystem there can and should be …
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Your Horizon Scanning Library?
How do you collect and organize your horizon scanning? At Houston Foresight, we have some particular needs (see the …
Observations on Globality of After Capitalism Signals
I was looking for more global examples to put in the After Capitalism manuscript, so I went through my library of 700+ …
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Foresight’s Last Mile Challenge
One of the biggest changes I’ve seen in foresight practice in more than three decades of work is the shift to more …
More and more varieties of capitalism
A couple of years ago I posted about what seemed to be a flurry of new varieties of capitalism being written about. I …
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Red Pill Futures
"All I'm offering is the truth" -- Morpheus in The Matrix But he offered so much more -- an image of a future in …
It’s okay to think big
I may be preaching to the choir, but perhaps I can provide some support for big thinkers … as we become an increasingly …
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 …
Why Societies Collapse from Jared Diamond
Our preliminary research at Houston Foresight into how domains evolve over the Three Horizons suggests collapse is not …
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Foresight Requires Patience
I recently had a conversation with an organizational futurist who had an opportunity to pitch foresight to a higher-up. …
Unilever innovating the future of work
The tour on the road to after capitalism stops today at Unilever, prompted by an outstanding Cold Call podcast that had …
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The Greenest Commercial Building in the World
Now that’s the kind of ambition needed for the transformation to After Capitalism. The building is the Bullitt Center in …
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Why Foresight
It was great to catch up with my old PTIS packaging foresight buddies at our last Strategic Foresight Boot Camp. PTIS …
After Capitalism talk
I am happy to share a 30-minute version of my After Capitalism research. I did this last year for the 20th symposium in …
State of Foresight in US Higher Ed
In a word, the state of foresight in US higher ed is … precarious. Only a few programs have been able to maintain a …
Four challenges of working at the local level
Most of the ideas I’ve seen for an After Capitalism future put a heavy emphasis on the local level. Most of it comes …
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The hard questions are not data questions
As we think about the future After Capitalism, one tempting approach is to pursue AI, Big Data, and the like to find the …
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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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After Capitalism Website
Introducing the After Capitalism website A place for all things “After Capitalism.” A key reason is to promote the …
Cavalier about collapse? Consider X-events
Our preliminary research at Houston Foresight into how domains evolve over the Three Horizons suggests collapse is not …
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Use productivity for more or less?
So, we meet again. Another opportunity to decide how we want to use productivity gains on the road to After Capitalism. …
Scharmer’s Eco-System Approach fits After Capitalism
This semester in our Alternative Perspectives course at Houston Foresight, we ran into Otto Scharmer a couple of times, …
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Naming drivers (of change)
One of the annoying aspects of dealing with large volumes of information that we futurists encounter is how to …
After Capitalism is not an ism
This-ism, that-ism, ism, ism, …
Top Ten Drivers of the Future 2023
We all love lists. I posted a drivers list a year-ish ago. I thought it would be fun to revisit and see if anything …
Foresight, Regulation, and Collaboration
Last week, I did a talk for the Center for U.S. and Mexican Law at a Seminar on "Foresight Regulatory Analysis” at the …
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