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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...

Fernando Gutierrez
Jun 30, 20238 min read


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...

Modafar Akhoirshieda & Shermon Cruz
Jun 30, 20234 min read


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...
Stephen Dupont
Jun 30, 20238 min read


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...
Claire Havens
Jun 30, 20236 min read


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...
traceyfollows
Jun 29, 20236 min read


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...

Trista Harris
Jun 29, 20234 min read


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...

Dr. Richard Hames
Jun 29, 20234 min read


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...
Paulo Carvalho & Olivier Woeffray
Jun 29, 20237 min read


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...

Alireza Hejazi
Jun 22, 20236 min read


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...

Bronwyn Williams
Apr 23, 20235 min read


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...

Steve Wells
Nov 2, 20226 min read


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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Nov 1, 20227 min read


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...

Zan Chandler
Nov 1, 20226 min read


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...
carladbass
Nov 1, 20224 min read


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...
Rachelle Bugeaud
Nov 1, 20226 min read


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...
admin95591
Nov 1, 20226 min read


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...
Stephen Dupont
Nov 1, 20227 min read


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...

Tamira Snell
Nov 1, 20225 min read


Democracy Futures Require New Education Systems
After decades of education reforms imposed by political, business, industry, and philanthropic interests, public schools have not kept...

Zabrina Epps
Nov 1, 20227 min read


In Pursuit of Happier Tomorrows
People living in the 21st century are faced with a number of global challenges – climate change, political instability and biodiversity...

Karolina Thakker
Nov 1, 20224 min read
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