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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) [...]
Zen and the Art of Gambling: Pt 2
In Texas Hold’em we start every hand only knowing our own starting hand. We do not know exactly what our opponents have, and we don’t yet know the flop, the turn or the river. They represent the future. What lays between us and what happens after the river card is a near endless possible number of outcomes.
New book: THE FUTURE OF YOU
Congratulations to certificate grad Tracey Follows! Her new book, The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? is now available. Check out the press release below for more details.
Review: What to Expect When You’re Expecting Robots: the Future of Human-Robot Collaboration
An optimistic assessment of a human future integrated with robots, Major and Shah present a practical, as opposed to a visionary, outlook of living with our machine colleagues. They are more interested in how we can make such a partnership functional and effective, rather than either evangelizing for automation, or fearing its ascent.
Zen and the Art of Gambling part 1
Yes, sometimes we will fail and see a fault in our logic and know we made a strategic blunder. But other times we did everything right and just rolled a one on a six sided die. We cannot use results as a single measure of success in a field where uncertainty is a leading actor.
The eight rules of Foresight Club
1st RULE: You do not talk about predicting the future 2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about predicting the future
Where’s My Jetpack? I Wanna Go Fishin’
Just as soldiers may someday use the technology to infiltrate hostile territory, wildland firefighters could be rapidly deployed to remote areas and have much greater off-road mobility when they get there. Search and rescue operations could benefit from this type of mobility system, as well as any other activity that requires getting to inaccessible places in the forest.