Congratulations to UH student Benjamin Yu on winning First Prize in the Association of Professional Futurists “Student Recognition Program” undergraduate category. Benjamin was a student of mine in the “Impact of Modern Technology on Society” class that is more or less an undergraduate version of our World Futures class. He did an outstanding Framework Forecast on “The Future of Digital Storage.  He will receive a prize of a one-year Student Membership in APF.
Our graduate entrants this year were:

  • Kurt Callaway: “Harvesting of Space Resources”
  • Mackenzie Dickson: “The Future of Schools”
  • Ricardo Vera: “Why Coal Consumption Keeps Rising”

 
We’re already getting to work on next year’s contest! Andy Hines