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APF “Collaborate” Virtual Event
APF’s Collaborate 2020 will take place (virtually) from September 2 to September 5 2020. Collaborate 2020 will be an open space for emergent engagement on [...]
Knowledge Base of Futures Studies 2020
Our Andy Hines recently shared on his Hinesight blog his excitement about being asked to join Richard Slaughter and co-edit the Knowledge Base of Futures Studies 2020. [...]
25% of Fortune 500 Practices Foresight
Last fall we alerted the community that our student Lesia Fejer was kicking off a project to begin assessing the current state of foresight. The [...]
August “Boot Camp” Is [Still] On!
The big question about any upcoming F2F gathering is “will it happen?” We can’t predict the future (ha ha), but we can say that we [...]
Congrats to our Spring 2020 Foresight grads!
We had a very healthy graduating class of nine Foresight students this Spring! It has been interesting to observe that students are on average going [...]
2020 APF Student Recognition Program winners
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 [...]
7-Steps to Quantitative Scenario Monitoring
Source: Unsplash Wanting to learn more about developing and measuring indicators, I chose to explore several different techniques for a final project in [...]
Will We fight?
Baseline: Prior to COVID-19 Just under two months ago, most citizens in the Western world were engaged in traditional jobs that required employees to occupy [...]
To the prospective futurist: Escaping the tunnel vision
I am not a religious or very spiritual person. I am science- and data-driven (by nature and by nurture) but I think the process of [...]
What Makes a Futurist a Futurist?
Every so often the media takes a deep dive into the possibilities of what the future may hold. These clusters of news stories tend to [...]
Veterinary medicine and foresight: Can they work together?
Veterinary medicine is an old profession. The first mention of the importance of caring for animals was in the Old Testament of the Bible in [...]
“Pick me! Pick me!”
"Nice weak signals, you got there. Would be a shame if they were to become public." In the popular movie ‘Shrek’, the main [...]