Ten years ago my journey to After Capitalism began. My grad students, in particular GA Christopher Manfredi, got excited …
Bias, Wisdom, and Obstacles to After Capitalism
One of the major obstacles to After Capitalism is stalemate. We are going to need to make some challenging decisions, …
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Tips for Thinking about the Future video
Had a blast sharing "A Dozen Tips for Thinking about the Future" for the Transforming Local Government Conference in …
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Redistribution is Possible but Fairness is Impossible
The outrage about the pretty mild student loan forgiveness program gives us a pretty good indication of the depth of the …
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Let’s not demonize capitalism on the road to after capitalism
It may serve we supporters of After Capitalism to tamper down the rhetoric on the evils of capitalism. (I know it’s not …
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Values and After Capitalism
The three guiding images for After Capitalism each have their own story and appeal. Today, let’s look at the values …
Champions and Futurists in Setting up Organizational Foresight
Hard to believe it’s almost a decade since I wrote my dissertation on The Role of an Organizational Futurist in …
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Lazy Socialists
The unfortunate aspects of Whole Food’s CEO John Mackey’s comments about youth being “lazy socialists” is that they are …
Warriors, Giggers, and Bots
What will the workforce of the future look like? I use a simple taxonomy that is focused more on the knowledge …
Imagining After Capitalism video
I had a great visit with the foresight folks at the University of Turku's Foresight Program. As part of the visit, I …
Foresight Certificate Course August 3
Houston Foresight seminar starts August 3rd! This 5 day, 100% virtual boot camp immerses you in the basics of …
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History is vital to the future
I just finished Wilkinson and Kupers’ very nice “The Essence of Scenarios: Learning from the Shell Experience,” which …
Automated Scanning: The State of Play
We at Houston Foresight get asked fairly frequently about what is the best automated scanning tool. Our response is that …
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The Future Is [NOT] Faster Than You Think
Abundance proponent Peter Diamandis brings us another volume – The Future is Faster Than You Think in his exponential …
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Aligned and in motion
A description of what we do as futurists that I like: we help clients align with the emerging future (clients can be …
Traditional values have problems, too
I have “picked” on the postmoderns a few times with posts about the “mean green meme.” Green, by the way, comes from the …
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Money still does not buy happiness
For years I’d been relying on the World Values Survey data that showed that when one is poor more money increases …
It will take work to get to post-work
There is no magic wand. There is no switch to flip. It’s more than a few policy tweaks. It’s more than good …
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The Red and Blue Values Split
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich recently wrote about “Facing America's Second Civil War.” While he sees it more as a …
Gathering Together Again … At Last
Houston Foresight had its annual [face-to-face] Spring Gathering two weekends ago for the first time in three years. Not …
Think critically and integrally
I saw a slogan today to “demand data and think critically.” Demands for data too often serve as a lazy substitute for …
Are we caring less about our jobs?
I’ve been trying to understand what’s going on with the “Great Resignation.” Boomers are [finally] retiring. More people …
Images and Utopia Tests
I really enjoyed the excellent work of Rutger Bregman on utopias (reviewed here). Let's focus on his point on how …
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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Virtual Professional Certificate in Foresight Starts April 6th!
We still have spots open for our next Foresight seminar starting April 6th! This virtual boot camp immerses you in the …
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Futurist Calls to Action
As so often happens in the classroom, the best ideas come from the students. In a reflection on playing with a climate …
Ten Books for Prospective Futurists, Updated
It’s time to update my list of ten books that a prospective futurist should read. The principle is the individual is …
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Futurists and their thirsty horses
You can take the horse to water, but you can’t make it drink! How many times have we futurists said this or something …
Post-work: Can We and Should We?
Readers know my answer, but what do you think? [Be great to hear your views]. Here’s my blog-sized case for “yes and …
Top Ten Drivers of the Future?
I recently had the opportunity to brief a group on the key drivers shaping World Futures. I have taught a class by that …