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Guest Lecture: Joe Tankersley on Storytelling
Thanks to APF colleague Joe Tankersley, for his visit to our Futures Research class and for giving us a first-hand account of his experiences in [...]
New blogroll and more changes ahead
We’re going to be polishing up our web presence. Alum April Koury is working on an updated web design for the Houston Futures site. The [...]
Forest Futures: Where’s the Beef? Meat without Livestock Production
Meat consumption is increasing rapidly across the globe. By 2050, the demand for meat is estimated to rise by 73% and the human population is [...]
Announcing the Houston Foresight Spring Gathering 2019
It’s time to lock in the dates for next year’s Spring Gathering, so block your calendar for Friday April 12 and Saturday April 13th. The [...]
Hines new Editor-in-Chief at On the Horizon
Foresight Program Coordinator Andy Hines needs your help in exploring the future of learning and education! Hines says: “I firmly believe that the future needs [...]
Building capacity for Transformation
Building Capacity for Transformation, this summer’s Foresight elective (still in progress) is being taught by futurist Cecily Sommers. It fits perfectly with my intent to [...]
Forest Futures: Take the Nature Chill Pill
My biggest take-away from American History, Prehistory to 1877, was that Ben Franklin liked to get naked in his upstairs window and take “air baths” [...]
Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Award
The School of International Futures has announced The Joseph Jaworski Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Award. This is a new annual award recognizing the next generation’s endeavors in shaping [...]
A Unique (possibly crazy) Course of Study
The UH Foresight program made it onto a list of 25 unique and possibly crazy courses of study put out by “The Best Schools.” They [...]
Foresight in the Wakandan Age of Pan-Africanism
Embed from Getty Images In case you haven't noticed, the African diaspora has been having something of a moment. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, in his [...]
Forest Futures: The Women Who Marry Trees
Florida Woman Marries Tree! It sounds like the kind of story you find on the skeeziest daytime talk-shows, featuring a disturbed woman overacting her exhuberance [...]
Futurist in Media: Futurists and AI
April’s topical focus for futurists in the media was artificial intelligence (AI) and the implications of replacing jobs with capable technologies. Preparing for new jobs [...]