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Interview with Adam Cowart on Design Thinking
In this video, Laura Schlehuber interviews Adam Cowart about the Design Thinking class – specifically his point-of-view on its importance to the Foresight field.
Virtual Professional Certificate in Foresight Starts August 3rd!
Our next Foresight seminar starts August 3rd! This 5 day, 100% virtual boot camp immerses you in the basics of foresight work. Classes run [...]
What is Foresight
Foresight collects information from the past and present and uses it to create multiple future scenarios that are likely to occur through causality, logic, and rational creativity. Foresight differs from prediction, which uses magical powers inaccessible to ordinary people to ‘precise blow’ a single future.
Spring Gathering ’22
Want a look inside Houston Foresight’s Spring Gathering weekend? Our Juli Rush proved her excellent coordination skills when she convinced half the student body to [...]
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.