Imagining After Capitalism Article | Hinesight....for Foresight

The journey continues. The plot thickens. I have a nice overview article of Imagining After Capitalism that has just come out in the Association of Professional Futurists Compass Magazine. Compass, edited by whiz Stephen Dupont, is a really outstanding publication highlighting ideas and developments in the field. It does a particularly good job in featuring new voices alongside some of the older ones (like yours truly). As a former editor of the Compass nearly 20 years ago, I look where it’s at today, and I am amazed – and frankly chuckling at what used to pass as a newsletter..Kudos to Stephen, the Compass team, and APF!

This Imagining After Capitalism piece is relatively short and sweet so it gets right to some key ideas. I also have a few longer pieces “in process” in a futures journal and a book chapter. The first is a longer version of this overview piece and the second focuses more on the methodological contributions of the After Capitalism research. Meanwhile, the book manuscript is still under review (and frankly the other pieces have been under review for quite some time as well). It is really challenging how long it takes to get something published these days! The staffs are completely overwhelmed. I was a journal editor for a few years and I do not envy anyone in that role. Or reviewers – I am constantly barraged with review requests. One might say it is capitalism at work, as someone is making some money here … and it ain’t the people doin’ the work! — Andy Hines

About Andy Hines

Dr. Andy Hines is Program Coordinator at the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Foresight, bringing together the experience he earned as an organizational, consulting, and academic futurist. He is also speaking, workshopping, and consulting through his firm Hinesight.

Before that, he was Managing Director of Social Technologies/Innovaro, and served as an Adjunct Professor with the university since 2004. Hines enjoyed earlier careers as a consulting and organizational futurist. He was a partner with Coates & Jarratt, Inc., a think tank and consulting firm that specialized in the study of the future. He was also Futurist & Senior Ideation Leader at Dow Chemical with a mission of using futures tools and knowledge to turn ideas into new business opportunities. Before that, Hines established and ran the Global Trends Program for the Kellogg Company.

Hines is motivated by a professional hunger to make foresight practical and useful, and he believes that foresight can help deliver the insight that is so needed in today’s organizations and the world. His goal, he says, is to infect as many change agents as possible with this message. Thus, he has honed a skill set designed to make foresight more actionable in organizations.

In this pursuit, he has authored five books: Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); ConsumerShift: How Changing Values Are Reshaping the Consumer Landscape (No Limits Publishing, 2011); Thinking About the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight (Social Technologies, 2007); 2025: Science and Technology Reshapes US and Global Society (Oak Hill, 1997); and Managing Your Future as an Association (ASAE, 1994) and has another in the hands of publishers: Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education. He has also authored dozens of articles, speeches, and workshops, including the 2003 Emerald Literati Awards’ Outstanding Paper accolade for best article published in Foresight for “An Audit for Organizational Futurists” and the 2008 award for “Scenarios: The State of the Art.” He has appeared on several radio and television programs, PBS Houston, KRIV-26 News, and the CBS “Early Show.” He also co-founded and is former Chair of the Association of Professional Futurists.

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