Futures

Practices for Everyday Futures Thinking

Two practices to help with everyday foresight.

Disinformation is Not a Future Problem

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

The DAO of Foresight

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

The US Needs a Vision for the Future

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...

Defense Futures: Why All Our Scenarios Should be Disruptive

(note: this article was originally published in 2016) I am often struck by the fact that, from a futures perspective, many of the...

The Future is neither WWII nor the Cold War

There are better analogies than WWII or the Cold War for thinking about our competitive futures.

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Shredding Our Maps

The mental maps for 2020 that we all began the year with have been completely torn up. We all desperately want a new map of the...

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On Radical Uncertainty

Another engaging podcast from EconTalk, and this time about a book of great relevance to thinking about the future, Radical Uncertainty....

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On "futurism" and fascism

A recent post from Wired. As one of the world's relatively few academically credentialed "futurists", I would offer that what the...

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