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By Rachel Magaji I recently had a chat with a senior product designer who reminded me of the benefits of working within constraints in...

By Tony Diggle In Part 1 (Food & Futures issue, June 2024), I looked at how 75 years into the lifetime of the United Nations such a...

By Gioia Arieti In a world hyped by the next exponential technologies, timelessness is power. In recent years, we've witnessed...

By Jim Dator While all humans are futurists (just as all humans are also historians, doctors, teachers, fighters, lovers.....), futures...

By Stephen Dupont Over the course of his long and distinguished career, futurist Sohail Inayatullah has worked with hundreds of...

By Grace Okubo In the previous post, we explored the global housing crisis and the importance of resilient, affordable housing solutions....

By Grace Okubo The global housing crisis affects nearly all countries. By 2025, 1.6 billion people will face housing shortages, as costs...

The FFAA seeks to galvanize the foresight community and government leaders in establishing a central foresight office in the U.S....

By amalia deloney In our first exploration of the lessons the U.S. Foresight Office (FOF) can learn from the U.S. Department of Arts and...

“Nothing is set in stone. A bird can be refolded into a boat, a fish, a kimono, or any other extravagant vision. At other times it aches...

The current global housing crisis poses a serious threat to the dream of owning a home for millions of young people worldwide.  From...

The idea of establishing a Federal Office of Foresight  (FOF) in the U.S. government is gaining traction among thought leaders and...

A not-so-distant future society where technology and governance seamlessly come together . By Cesar Perez Living in the year 2090, in...

Question: What is a culture of foresight and why is it so important as we look towards the future? By Terry Grim When considering...

Question: What role can mindfulness play in creating higher quality futures? By Karen Oikonen and Julie Sommerfreund “Wow, these...

Question: What is the role of ethics as foresight continues to develop? By JT Mudge With great foresight comes great ethical...

Question: What will the role of futurists be in the age of AI? By Jaqueline Weigel, Delma Moraes, Vitor Raposo, Alexandre Contar...

Question: If multiple groups (countries, states, cities, political groups, etc.) each have their own ideas of a preferred future, how do...

Question: What are the most critical questions that futurists should be challenging leaders with today? By Sean Pillot de Chenecey It’s...