The thing that makes foresight tough, that can make the work we do seem like a Sisyphean existence, has to do with changing minds.

To do good foresight work, especially in today’s turbulent context, one of the things we need is more information about the wider world.

“The future” is an expanding space of possibilities, not a contracting one. This is why we typically talk about the futures ahead of us,...

Number four on our list of ten things that your upcoming scenarios or forecasts need to account for is machines doing things without us. ...

Thinking critically about the future is not simply identifying events that are possible. It is also about shifting between the best models.

Synthetic biology is an amazing (or terrifying, depending upon your point of view) new field that you need to understand.

Now that so many more of us are becoming familiar with foresight, we have an opportunity to be more discerning about what we need.

Geopolitics, far from being only the concern of national policy makers, can and does dramatically affect all of us

10 important trends every long-term scenario needs to include.

There are a number of very serious, long-run transitions underway that are reshaping our world in fundamental ways. Climate change is...

Bottom Line: the July 25th workshop at Bard College has been rescheduled to October 11. Due to scheduling conflicts with other projects...

In ten years’ time, “disinformation” is not going to be the headline. Something else will. Something else will dominate people’s...

Bottom Line: Military logistics of modern life may see increased automation, capabilities, efficiency, and few people Source: The Nippon...

It is easy to apply foresight to existing strategy conversations. Here we quickly look at three simple ways to link the two.

Foresight training transforms scattered staff insights into a shared organizational understanding of emerging threats and opportunities.

Bottom Line: the options – and competition – for national security and resilience partnerships will grow in the years ahead. Introduction...

Bottom Line: foresight helps organizations anticipate today more of what is possible tomorrow. This is the way…

The challenge of being an incumbent, of being king of the hill, is that you don’t want change. You like things the way they are. The...

There has been an understandable amount of discussion in the past two weeks about the role that social media and big tech are playing in...