In our series looking at the possibility of a post-work future, last time we looked at how the centrality of work to our …
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Work is central to our identity
When you are introduced to someone, how long is it before you let them know what you do for work? And how soon do you …
A Post-Work Future May Take Longer Than We Think
The After Capitalism research has identified three categories of visions of a world in which capitalism is no longer the …
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The Non-Tragedy of the Commons
Most of us have dutifully learned the Tragedy of the Commons, how unchecked individual interested overwhelms the group …
Saying goodbye to the physical classroom
The Houston Foresight graduate program is running an experiment this semester: there will be no physical classroom for …
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Visions, images, and utopias
I’m working on the explanation of what’s to come for After Capitalism. As regular readers are aware by now, three …
Integral Futures Questions
It was great to dive back into some Integral Futures in Alternative Perspectives class this semester. The all-too-rare …
Pre-capitalism and post-capitalism
Braudel’s Civilization and Capitalism three-volume series has been in my “to-read” pile for many years. I’d heard many …
Reasonable futures timeframes
What’s an appropriate timeframe for foresight work? It’s a question we futurists often get. It’s usually coming from a …
An Integral Futures lens on security
It seems that each time I teach Integral Futures as part of Alternative Perspectives class, at least one student really …
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More future-oriented than we thought?
Futurists have long lamented the bias of most people to the past (at the expense of the future). This bias seemingly is …
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Avoiding Used Futures in After Capitalism
Part of my goal in putting together the After Capitalism research into a book (admittedly going too slowly!) is identify …
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Knowledge Base of Futures Studies 2020
I am excited to share that I accepted Richard Slaughter’s offer to be the Associate Editor of the next update of the …
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Evolution of Framework Foresight Part 5 Archetypes
Let me begin with proper credit to Professor Jim Dator for the concept [Jim Dator, Alternative Futures at the Manoa …
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12 Steps for Futurists
I would argue that 12 step groups are one of the great social inventions of the last century. This post and the steps …
Evolution of Framework Foresight: Drivers (part 4)
The graphic has the drivers in the rectangles. This is from a project on the future of knowledge work we did about ten …
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Evolution of Framework Foresight, Part 3
Last time we talked about the different approaches we used to develop inputs to create the ingredients for the baseline …
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Clustering, Pattern Recognition, and Synthesizing
These are a few of my favorite things (humming Sound of Music). I have been doing all three a lot lately, and talking …
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State of foresight professionalization
I was recently asked about the state of professionalizing, and realized it has been a while since I has reflected on it. …
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Evolution of Framework Foresight Part 2
With the history on hand, let’s now dig into some fairly significant process tweaks we’re implementing in Framework …
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Houston Foresight Spring Gathering 2019
We think about, practice, and experiment with how to engage people with the future. But most of that attention is …
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Evolution of Framework Foresight (part 1)
Framework Foresight is the core method we use to teach students how to explore the future. It is deliberately designed …
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Exploring the future of learning and education
I need your help in exploring the future of learning and education! Our work on the future of student needs for Lumina …
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Algorithms, Big Data, and the perfect sneaker
[insert rant] We have a perfect flow of information in a perfect market to make just the precise transactions whenever, …
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After Capitalism Concepts
The After Capitalism research started by collecting interesting “new or next economy” concepts. They’ve been analyzed, …
The Gig Dichotomy: Gigging because we want to or have to?
I was working my way through the Horizon 2 transition concepts for After Capitalism when a wonderful listserv …
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The boiling frog future….to 2052?
I finally got around to 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years by Jorgen Randers. Randers has been part of the …
Why create visions or images?
We had a nice discussion on the APF list last week that started out on the gig economy and ended up exploring ideas for …
Prosperity without Growth
This week we follow up on Degrowth with Prosperity without Growth from Professor Tim Jackson. It’s a different take in …
Degrowth: A Growing Issue in the Future?
Is it okay yet to talk about degrowth in polite society or mixed company? Alas, I think it is quite okay in postmodern …
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