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.
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?”.
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.
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.
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 Important Role of Futurists
Futures studies, often interchangeably called foresight, is an evolving profession that is necessary for humanity to think about how to plan and prepare for the future as well as influence change. We now live in a world that is extremely interconnected and thus it becomes more difficult to understand the potential ripple effects of various dynamics, be it the emergence of the Internet of Things or a pandemic.