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Foresight Students join Foresight Fridays at NIOSH
NIOSH has been running a monthly Foresight Friday meeting that brings together those interested in the future within NIOSH. The Houston Foresight program ran a [...]
Student Joshua Brockway is GAO SPEL Fall Intern
Congratulations to Joshua Brockway, UH Foresight student and now current Fall intern for SPEL
Review: One Billion Americans
Author: Matthew Iglesias Publisher: Portfolio Publication Date: 2020 Book review by Greg Turner, APF Richard Feynman pointed out that the basic laws of physics [...]
Alum Jim Lee Wins Nationwide Investment Strategy Competition
Congratulations to alum, futurist, and financial advisor Jim Lee. Lee, founder of Wilmington, DE-based Strategic Foresight Investing (StratFI) took first place in the equity-focus strategies category. His [...]
Into the Future: Inspiring the next generation
Life has been busy for alum Garry Golden! The founder and owner of Into the Future has been running a five-day Time Travel week for [...]
Future, Baseball, Systems: All on Mars
Alum and occasional Foresight professor Jim Breaux's latest piece, "The Game is Afoot" hit the stands in last month's The National Pastime: The Future According [...]
New Certificate in Foresight virtual dates
Registration for next year's virtual Certificate in Foresight seminars is now open! Each seminar will run for 5 Wednesdays from 9am - 12pm CST. Our [...]
APF Student Recognition: 1st place tie goes to UH students!
Congrats to students Heather Benoit Kampa and JT Mudge for both receiving 1st place in the Association of Professional Futurists' Masters Individual category.
Anxiety, Depression, and Foresight: Why we need to be careful with our practice, and how we can help.
The COVID-19 pandemic has given us a lot to talk about. Most of it amounted to little more than amateur prognostication or low-risk forecasting - the future of work will have more remote employment…oh, you don’t say? Some of it was outright catastrophizing – make sure you stock up on your emergency seeds!! Amidst all the things that we could talk about (while we had nothing else to do), was the topic of mental health.
Heather Benoit, grad, Sr. Managing Director, Strategic Foresight
Congratulation to Foresight graduate Heather Benoit, now the Senior Managing Director, Strategic Foresight for Strategic Government Resources!
Congratulations to our Spring Grads!
Congratulations to our Spring Foresight graduates! It's been a strange and difficult few semesters, but they've pulled through with flying colors. We look forward to [...]
Is Africa’s Future East or West? The Future is the Blasian
Looking back 20 years, The Economist magazine was the first to project Africa’s rising. Map of Nigeria overlaying Map of USA (Adegoke, 2017) [...]