Welcome to the UH Foresight Blog
Strategic Planning with a Long View Lens
If there are so many businesses changing direction does that mean formal strategic plans are impractical?
Describing a futurist
Futurists do far more than horizon scanning or trend analysis or scenario planning. They listen and understand, they analyze and formulate, and then they make the case to move forward.
Introducing Our New Video Series
Today we present our first video where Laura Schlehuber interviews a few futurists and gets their go-to explanations for “what is foresight?”.
Opportunity to Contribute to the Foresight Profession
Throughout my career, one thing I’ve realized is sometimes you just need to raise your hand and jump in with both feet.
How the technium helped me to think critically about technology
One of the most significant ideas that Kelly proposes is that tools (technologies) never die. “Technologies are idea based, and culture is their memory.”
Life, Liberty, and Foresight: The Ultimate Trifecta
I have been asking my professors how foresight has been kept such a secret for eight-plus decades and why it is so often approached in isolation of other closely related disciplines.
APF Pro Dev and Spring Gathering Weekend
"Everyone really had a great time. The energy was super-positive. We got lots of comments about how great it was to be back together in person. I think this will go down as a semi-legendary event."
Going Where the Youth Are
We all have that story. You know the one. How did you become a futurist? I think it is one of the first questions we are asked when we begin the Houston Foresight program in Intro. The answers are as varied as the diversity of the people who claim the title of futurist.
SXSW CONJURES 2050
Topics scattered among the Futures 2050 track can be divided first into megatrends. Web 3.0, De-Fi, and DAOs create one, the metaverse and tokenization, another, and QX (quantum experience) is a third.
Spring Gathering Update
Some more details on what the Gathering weekend will hold. Friday April 22 The APF will hold a Professional Development Seminar (ProDev) on UH’s main [...]
Futures: If You Build It Will They Come?
That is what futurists do. We build fields where futures can come true. We don’t create the futures, we help find the driving forces and trends and help others navigate the inherent uncertainties of futures.
Seven Things Futurists Should Know About the Public
The public is already curious about futurists; they just don’t know it. The future is an inherently sexy subject. Everybody wants to see into the future...