How are we Doing? Engaging in High Quality, Effective Foresight Work
A perennial concern of futurists and foresight practitioners is whether or not foresight work is having the desired impact. In his 1981...
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Fernando Gutierrez
- Jun 30
- 8 min
Leveraging the Power of Tangible Artifacts to Speak to Possible Futures
Interview with Julian Bleecker, co-author of The Manual of Design Fiction Imagine that you have a sh**ty time machine that doesn’t work...
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Modafar Akhoirshieda & Shermon Cruz
- Jun 30
- 4 min
Long-Term Strategic Thinking, Intensive Collaboration, and Deep Foresight
... are needed to navigate a fast-changing world. As the world grapples with present challenges and future uncertainties, strategic...
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Stephen Dupont
- Jun 30
- 8 min
PROFILE - A Winding River Journey
Futurist Mina McBride Shares Insight about Foresight from within a Fortune 500 Corporation Do you love what you do with a passion? Did...
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Claire Havens
- Jun 30
- 6 min
Defining the Skills Futurists Will Need for the Future, with the Help of ChatGPT
Long-term thinking is important, but it’s surprisingly difficult to do well. Humans are, at our core, very short-term creatures. We find...
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traceyfollows
- Jun 29
- 6 min
Careers in Futures: Disrupting Futures
With this issue, we are welcoming Tracey Follows as a contributing columnist who will write about career questions and issues particular...
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Trista Harris
- Jun 29
- 4 min
Is ChatGPT Going to Destroy Foresight Jobs? Probably, but it’s for the Best.
Unless you have been on a media fast, you have probably heard about ChatGPT, which is an AI language model developed by Open AI. It...
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Dr. Richard Hames
- Jun 29
- 4 min
Liberating New Widsom: on The Gentle Art of Mentoring
Do you wake up every morning thinking there must be more to life? Perhaps it takes an iron will for you to drag yourself out of bed each...
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Paulo Carvalho & Olivier Woeffray
- Jun 29
- 7 min
The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be: Here's How Strategic Foresight Can Help
Three-quarters (75%) of organizations are not prepared for the pace of change in and around their industry. Across sectors, we all need...
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Alireza Hejazi
- Jun 22
- 6 min
A Step-by-step Approach toward Becoming a Professional Futurist
Becoming a professional futurist does not happen overnight, but everyone interested in developing a career in foresight may find the five...
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Bronwyn Williams
- Apr 23
- 5 min
Rockstars and Robots - AI Automation Tools are Shaping the Future of our Careers
"For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even...
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Steve Wells
- Nov 2, 2022
- 6 min
Foresight in Change: Making Change Future Ready
The growing consensus is that change management as it is traditionally applied is outdated. There is however, some doubt about the...
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- Nov 1, 2022
- 7 min
HOW TO TRULY DEMOCRATIZE FORESIGHT FOR YOUR PEOPLE, AND WHY WE MUST
When democratic systems marginalize young people while failing to address the planetary crises they will inherit, they lose all vibrancy...
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Zan Chandler
- Nov 1, 2022
- 6 min
Grappling with Anti-Colonial and Decolonial Futures
Image source: Zan Chandler ’ll state it from the get-go. I’m a British-born, Black futurist who settled in Canada as a youth, and whose...
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carladbass
- Nov 1, 2022
- 4 min
The Modern Art of Foresight
Thousands of transparent plastic squares hang from the ceiling over my head like a space-age sheet. Lights make them sparkle and...
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Rachelle Bugeaud
- Nov 1, 2022
- 6 min
How to Conduct More Productive Trends Analysis
Analyzing trends can sometimes feel a bit messy and unstructured. That’s why we thought it’d be useful to share with the process that our...
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admin95591
- Nov 1, 2022
- 6 min
INVOKING INDIGENEITY TO REIMAGINE THE KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE OF ANTICIPATION
By Shermon Cruz and Nicole Anne Kahn-Parreño For the historical futurist, Yuval Harari in his book Homo Deus: A Brief History of...
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Stephen Dupont
- Nov 1, 2022
- 7 min
MEANINGFUL PARTICIPATION: CRITICAL TO THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY
Futurist and Founder of the School of International Futures, Cat Tully, shares why meaningful participation is so critical to the future...
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Tamira Snell
- Nov 1, 2022
- 5 min
Hunt for The Future: Exploring Potential Futures While Sailing around The World
I recently discovered that my dream of a circumnavigation of the world entered my mind in fourth grade. In a school essay I described the...
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Zabrina Epps
- Nov 1, 2022
- 7 min
Democracy Futures Require New Education Systems
After decades of education reforms imposed by political, business, industry, and philanthropic interests, public schools have not kept...
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