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The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future
Dr. Natasha Vita-More (Grad '06) has co-edited a new book, The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human [...]
Houston Futures hosts the gathering: City-Making in the 21st Century–Designing Urban Futures
Houston Futures will host the gathering: City-Making in the 21st Century – Designing Urban Futures this April 12th and 13th. Students, faculty, alums (Master’s & [...]
Communicating the Future by Alum Pam McConathy Schied
Communicating the Future by Pam McConathy Schied Alum Pam McConathy Schied gave a guest lecture to Seminar class last week on "Communicating the [...]
Alumni William Thurmond on Biofuels
Check out the Greater Houston Partnership meeting where Houston alumni and founder of Emerging Markets Online, Will Thurmond, introduces Houston's Biofuels Task Force and speaks [...]
Alumni Young Tag Cho's Work
Young Tag Cho (’12) was in Houston this week, and he gave this coin from his unit to Dr. Bishop on Wednesday. Cho is a [...]
Student Work: Reality Check on "A Theory of Everything"
Welcome to the first posting of student work from last semester's "Alternative Perspectives" class. The class was a popular one and, in my view, the [...]
Big Data, Cities, Simulations and the Future
I read an interesting piece in the Sunday NY Times a few weeks ago called “SimCity for Real” Measuring an Untidy Metropolis.” It talked about [...]
Jay Gary Guest Lecture on Professionalization
We were very pleased to have Jay Gary, PhD, Assistant Professor at Regent University’s Strategic Foresight program was a guest to our ProSeminar class. He discussed his research [...]
Little Bigs
Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending Little Bigs, a multiple speaker virtual gathering hosted by the APF and UH's own Jim Breaux . Speakers [...]
Are the Occupiers Right?
A post from UH Futures' graduate Jason Swanson on The European Futures Observatory blog: Occupy Wall Street may best be described as a meta-protest. The [...]
Where are they now? Alumni – Seth Itzkan
Reversing global warming with livestock?: Seth Itzkanat TEDxSomerville Interview with Seth Itzkanat How did you hear about Future Studies? I discovered the UHCL Future Studies [...]
UH Futurists published in The Futurist
Pick up The Futurist lately? The March-April 2013 issue from the World Future Society has UH people all over it – Robert Moran (Certificate, May [...]