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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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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Digging Deeper into Inequality: the 9.9%
Much has been written about inequality, such as Piketty’s wonderful treatise Capital. We hear about the 1%, the 10%, the …
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Evolutionary Reconstruction as Path to Vision
How do we get to our horizon three visions? Gar Alperovitz suggests that “Reform” concepts suggest changes or …
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A healthy fear of superintelligence
Homo Deus explored the possibility of a new human species emerging. If that wasn’t enough to persuade you that we need …
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After Capitalism video
For those who prefer video, or listening, I’m posting a video summary of my After Capitalism ideas. It was recorded as …
Circular economy: From Consumers to Users
Sorting through and synthesizing the now 19 concepts fitting with what we’re calling the “sustainable commons” vision of …
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Next up: A new species!
Homo Deus makes the provocative argument that technological progress has Homo Sapiens on the path to becoming a new …
Has Trump Shifted the Baseline?
This question emerged in a working session on the future of US and Mexico relations. In good Framework Foresight …
After Capitalism Visions Taking Shape
Small steps forward. It’s helpful in research to step back everyone once in and while and assess or re-assess where you …
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Abundance: Tech to the Rescue
The title says it all: Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think. If you’re a true believer in technology …
Reformation or Transformation
A key question that has consistently informed the research and books that I’ve been going through in this “After …
The Neoliberal Capitalist Story
“Social responsibility”….[is a] fundamentally subversive doctrine” in a free society….“there is one and only one social …
Signal: Men without Work
Nicholas Eberstadt of American Enterprise Institute provides helpful insight into an issue that “after capitalism” is …
Reframing After Capitalism
I introduced a new framing of the “After Capitalism” project a few weeks ago in a post on “transition.” Let’s look more …
P2P Platforms in Transition to After Capitalism
Last week we talked about the sharing economy as a transition stage to “after capitalism.” Intermediaries are an …
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The Sharing Economy Transition
In my emerging scheme for organizing the concepts for what’s next and after capitalism, I am placing the sharing economy …
From Apartness to Integrated
I have been working through ideas about “what’s after capitalism,” and think about what’s wrong and what could be right, …