Blog – Page 19 – Houston Foresight

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 [...]

July 24th, 2018|Categories: Education|Tags: Bryan Alexander, education, foresight, future, futurist, Haley Glover, Jay Gary, Katherine Prince, learning, on the horizon|

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 [...]

July 2nd, 2018|Categories: Courses, Houston Futures News|Tags: cecily sommers, foresight, future, futurists, leadership, transformation|

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” [...]

June 9th, 2018|Categories: Forest Futures|Tags: ecotherapy, foresight, forest, forest bathing, future, futurist, shinrin yoku|

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 [...]

May 19th, 2018|Categories: Foresight Students|Tags: award, foresight, future, futurists, next generation, SOIF|

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 [...]

May 19th, 2018|Categories: Courses, Houston Futures News|Tags: education, foresight, future, futurists, innovative, online, Top 25|

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 [...]

May 8th, 2018|Categories: After Capitalism, Education, Foresight|Tags: Africa, Black Panther, media, Pan-Africanism, visioning, Wakanda|

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 [...]

May 4th, 2018|Categories: Forest Futures|Tags: foresight, forest, forestry, future, futurists, rights-of-nature|

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 [...]