Review: Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson This new entry into the Abundance territory is a wildly successful …
How Guiding Images Work
How do futurists use guiding images to imagine the future? In this short video, we explore how foresight professionals, …
Making the future less scary
While most of my time is spent looking for positive guiding images of the future, I think it’s important to look at a …
After Capitalism Shift #8: From PRIVATE to COMMONS
There are aspects of everyday life that we consider so normal that we don’t even question them anymore. We recently …
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7 Steps for Better Scanning
Curious about how professionals really “see” what’s coming next? At the UH Foresight Program, we’ve had the privilege of …
After Capitalism Shift # 7 From FULL EMPLOYMENT to FULL UNEMPLOYMENT
If I offered you 100% of your salary without working, would you still go to work? What about 90%? 80%? 70%? My early …
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There are Alternatives to Capitalism
While doing some After Capitalism scanning over the weekend, I was surprised – or is it dismayed – by how many …
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After Capitalism Shift #6: From PAST to FUTURE
Much, if not most, of the work looking at alternatives to capitalism spends a great deal of time focused on the past. …
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Houston Foresight Virtual Boot Camp Starts October 1st
The University of Houston Foresight Program is kicking off another 5-day virtual boot camp on October 1st that will run …
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After Capitalism: What the Signals Are Saying Q3 2025
Here is the third of the quarterly check-ins for 2025 on what the signals are saying regarding After Capitalism. (See Q2 …
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After Capitalism Revisted on FuturePod
Peter Hayward, former leader of the great Foresight program at Swinburne that was shut down, has been doing the amazing …
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After Capitalism Shift #5: From GROWTH to DEGROWTH
The growth question earns a place among the top ten shifts for After Capitalism. Let’s start with the bad news. Growth …
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Talking about Images of Post-Capitalist Futures
HINT: Stick around for a chance to earn a copy of Imagining After Capitalism! Foresight student and …
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After Capitalism Shift #3 From SCARCITY to ABUNDANCE
A few weeks ago we touched on abundance on a cautionary note as we track the capitalism’s attempt to co-opt it with …
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“Post-Growth Finance” Reviews Imagining After Capitalism
The After Capitalism plot is thickening. Check out this nice review of the book on Substack. But perhaps more …
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After Capitalism Shift #4: From MASTERS OF Nature to PARTNERS WITH Nature
Capitalism’s view of nature is that it is something to be conquered and exploited. The more science and technology has …
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Tech-Led Abundance Not Techno-Capitalism
Hopefully, the newly popular Techno-Capitalism will quietly fade away. But we know that hope is not a strategy and we …
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Review of Andy Hines’s Imagining After Capitalism: Images of Post-Capitalist Futures
A very nice review of Imagining After Capitalism by Tristan Markwell, a student in our Houston Foresight program [BTW, …
After Capitalism Top 10 Shifts: #2. From ECONOMY to SOCIETY
(Last time we covered Shift #1 From First To Second Tier Values) Stop and think about our daily life. Our …
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Keeping Our Eye on Transformation: Imagining After Capitalism
I have a new short piece on how Imagining After Capitalism relates to transformation (perfect for a little holiday …
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Beware the Head Nod
Our biggest fear in writing the Activating the Future book and teaching the class is the head nod. The head nod is when …
After Capitalism Top 10 Shifts: #1 From First To Second Tier Values
Another way to phrase this is: From ONE-RIGHT-WAY (traditional, modern, and postmodern) VALUES to MULTIPLE WAYS …
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After Capitalism: What the Signals Are Saying Q2 2025
Here is the second of the quarterly check-ins for 2025 on what the signals are saying regarding After Capitalism. (See …
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Rules of Foresight, Part 1
Note: I’m thinking of an occasional series of some key aspects of foresight, which I can in return relate to the future …
Review: Bronze Age Mindset
Brace yourself. If you’re not familiar with the Bronze Age Pervert, it can be shocking. I debated whether to indirectly …
A Technique for Guiding Images: Imagining the Future After Capitalism
I reviewed dozens of books and reports touching on aspects of After Capitalism. Ultimately, I selected twenty-eight …
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Houston Foresight Turns 50
"We are still here," cried special guest Morpheus at the UH Foresight 50th Anniversary Celebration from May …
The Role of Values in After Capitalism
With the proverbial magic wand, and one change to make to facilitate the transformation to After Capitalism, I choose …. …
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Solnit: Hope in the Dark
We have discussed what we futurists and change agents might do in the current turbulence ... we believers in After …
After Capitalism: What the Signals Are Saying Q1 2025
NOTE: The After Capitalism paperback is back for sale on Amazon (the initial run sold out and there were, um, issues …
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