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APF Global Futures Festival Open to Public
The APF is opening up the Sept 16 APF Global Futures Festival / V-Gathering to the general public free of charge. This gathering offers interactive [...]
Futurists in Media Q3 Update: Toffler and the Demise
Perhaps the biggest story this quarter was the death of Alvin Toffler. As expected, it brought forth a “demise of futurists” story. This time from [...]
Jim Breaux's Oil Systems Model in Perspectives
It was great to see the oil systems model developed by Houston Foresight alum and Adjunct Faculty Jim Breaux highlighted in the August issue from [...]
"Future of Students Needs" Work on Lumina Site
It is great to see the follow-up work we did for the original “Future of Student Needs 2025 and Beyond” get published on the student-powered [...]
Houston Foresight at WFS/APF 2016
The Houston Foresight program was once again well represented at the WFS/APF annual conference held this year in Washington DC from July 22-24. Congratulations to [...]
Futurists in Media Q2: Less Use of "Futurists"
It occurs to me that a new category we might monitor is how often futurist appears in “scare quotes.” When we say someone is a [...]
Alum/Professor Cindy Frewen in the New York Times on Housing
Apparently, it’s New York Times week for Houston Foresight alums. After posting a story about Jerry Paffendorf’s appearance, I learned that our own Alum and [...]
Alum Jerry Paffendorf's Mapping Work in the NY Times
Houston Foresight alum Jerry Paffendorf’s entrepreneurial activities continue to gain recognition – last week he was featured in the New York Times, in piece called [...]
Alum Gary Hamel Reflects on Future Shock
The news of Alvin Toffler’s death on June 27, 2016 brought back memories; “back to the futures,” so to speak. Toffler’s classic book Future Shock, [...]
Save the Date: 2017 Foresight Certificate "Boot Camp"
We need to confirm a few things, but almost surely these will by the 2017 dates!
Graphic of the Houston Foresight Scanning Process
Our design expert on the Houston Foresight team, student Maria Romero, is at it again. After doing a beautiful job with updating the Framework Foresight [...]
Exploring the Future…with MISC
The bonds are strengthening between foresight and design. We recently received our first physical shipment of beautiful new magazines as part of the Houston Foresight Program’s collaboration [...]