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Student Work: Crossroads for Opportunity in Front of Nations with Declining Populations
Image Source: Jo Di Graphics (using United Nations data) Declining populations have become the norm in a number of countries in the last few decades. [...]
Student Work: Are we all futurists?
After reading Navigating Into the Future or Driven by the Past, I am convinced to believe that we all have a futurist side in us [...]
Things to Consider if You Want to be a Futurist
So you have a friend who is thinking about undertaking a graduate degree in strategic foresight, maybe at the University of Houston’s program. It’s important [...]
What is the logical conclusion of freely abundant virtual consumption?
A former facebook executive went viral for saying “the short term dopamine driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works.” Now [...]
DPC: Weak Signals for Health Care in the United States
Healthcare in the United States is an incredibly polarizing issue. The politics have been gridlocked for a decades. President Obama forced movement in the mechanics [...]
Student Work: Is My Reality Real
In our Social Change class taught by Cindy Frewen, we discussed many types of social change. One of the ones I thought was most interesting [...]
Student Work: EnerArt
A painting of Venus rising from the sea on a Shell fuel pump, a sheet of steel “played” in a symphony and tiny oil pump [...]
Student Work: The Road Ahead for Professional Services
My lovely wife, Hilary, and I used to take “jellyfish vacations” where we would jump in the car and just hit the road. We would [...]
Forest Futures: Do plants feel?
I was recently reminded of how I learned in middle school that plants could feel. As I recall, some sort of receptors were attached to [...]
Spring 2019 Foresight Seminar Registration is Closed
It always makes us sad to close registration for one of our Foresight Certificate Sessions when people still want to join in the fun. Our [...]
Student Work: Where are the Visionary Politicians?
On March 16th, my club, The Explorer's Club of New York, held its annual Gala dinner as we celebrated 8 of the remaining Apollo astronauts [...]
Alum Anne Boysen to teach Data Mining for Houston Foresight
One of the challenges in leading the foresight program is keeping up with new tools and approaches to supplement the core curriculum. Perhaps no topic [...]