It is a great pleasure to announce that Houston Foresight Master’s student Miranda Mantey won 3rd place in the Individuals Master’s category for the year’s APF Student Recognition Competition. Miranda received a Certificate of Achievement and a one-year student membership in APF as her prize. She entered her Framework Foresight project on “The Future of CRISPR-cas9.” Miranda look at the role of regulation in shaping this transformation technology and in particular focused on “To what extent will CRISPR be utilized as a medical and cosmetic therapy?

Miranda identified key drivers and explored how they might play out using the Scenario Archetype approach. Below is a snapshot of the drivers in the Transformation scenario.

 

Our second winner was in the Team Master’s Category, where the team of Hannah Kim, Tim Murphy, Tom Rau, Jonathan Torres won second place for their project “Gumby’s Uncertain Future.” It was carried out for World Futures class. The team envisioned a collapse version of the global future in 2035, using the Gumby character to describe how life would be different.

You can also view the other excellent Houston entries: