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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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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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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With the history on hand, let’s now dig into some fairly significant process tweaks we’re implementing in Framework …
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We think about, practice, and experiment with how to engage people with the future. But most of that attention is …
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Framework Foresight is the core method we use to teach students how to explore the future. It is deliberately designed …
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The UH Foresight program made it onto a list of 25 unique and possibly crazy courses of study put out by “The Best …
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After our scan hit sharing session, which I shared about last week, we jumped into the formal program. Let’s focus on …
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The Houston Foresight community devoted a day to Scanning the Fringe for its 2018 Spring Gathering on April 14th. In …
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Surely, purpose would fit with our set of Horizon 3 Visions, right? In fact we originally referred to the “Sustainable …
One of the sessions at this weekend’s “Scanning the Fringe” event hosted by the Houston Foresight program with the …
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The Houston Foresight Program’s Alternative Perspectives class opens with a week on the nature of reality. Each week …
When someone asks you what a futurist is, how do you answer? Do you answer differently each time? Maybe you vary it …
Each spring in Proseminar class we explore the past, present, and future of the foresight field. It provides an …
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One of the great challenges of foresight work has been to establish a consistent ongoing horizon scanning system within …
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APF’s has just launched the nominations phase of the 2018 Most Significant Futures Works program! This is our …
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We have made money more important than it should be. The economy is bigger than it should be. Charles Eisenstein in …
My project work these days is with the research capability we're building at the University of Houston Foresight …
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This Sunday’s NY Times, alongside a piece chortling about the problems that Roy Moore is causing Republicans, featured …
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Last week we talked about the sharing economy as a transition stage to “after capitalism.” Intermediaries are an …
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It's almost time for the January 2018 UH Foresight Certificate boot camp? I suspect some readers of this blog have …
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Interesting how many times I’ve rewritten this! I keep seeing different angles, but not convinced that’s it, trying …
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Jerry Glenn asked me to alert the APF that the Millennium Project’s new State of the Future report is out. I confess …
APF colleague Matthew Henry pointed me in the direction of Simbi, which is essentially a bartering site in which “you …
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Changing sense of place is a potential emerging discontinuity I’ve been using with groups lately. On the …
I was happy to see my paper “Let’s Talk about Success: A Proposed Foresight Outcomes Framework for Organizational …
One the one hand, “we are at an inflection point—the early stages of a shift as profound as that brought on by the …
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We might think about two polar opposite and perhaps extreme visions of the “after capitalism” future: commons, in which …
One of my favorite things to do each year is to coordinate the APF’s Most Significant Futures Works program. This year …
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The Future of Student Needs 2025+ work sponsored by Lumina Foundation brought up potential shifting purpose of higher …
I am very pleased to announce that I’ve reach an agreement with the Future Foresight Foundation to translate the 2nd …
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