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Strategic Foresight in U.S. Agencies
The question, then, is: How can American policymakers adequately value the long term given the inherent uncertainty of the future and the resulting pressure to focus on the short term?
Student Heather Benoit presents at Austin Design Week
Last month, our own Heather Benoit presented on The Future of Cities for Austin Design Week. Founded in 2016, Austin Design Week’s (ADW) mission is [...]
Virtual Professional Certificate in Foresight Starts Jan 12th!
Spots are going fast for our next Foresight seminar starting January 12th! This 5 day, virtual boot camp immerses you in the basics of [...]
Spread the word – IMPACT: Learning Edition
We're thrilled to promote futures thinking, especially when 3 of our own (Katie King, Maria Gabriela Romero Mejias, Jason Swanson) are involved in the organization! [...]
Foresight Students join Foresight Fridays at NIOSH
NIOSH has been running a monthly Foresight Friday meeting that brings together those interested in the future within NIOSH. The Houston Foresight program ran a [...]
Student Joshua Brockway is GAO SPEL Fall Intern
Congratulations to Joshua Brockway, UH Foresight student and now current Fall intern for SPEL
Review: One Billion Americans
Author: Matthew Iglesias Publisher: Portfolio Publication Date: 2020 Book review by Greg Turner, APF Richard Feynman pointed out that the basic laws of physics [...]
Alum Jim Lee Wins Nationwide Investment Strategy Competition
Congratulations to alum, futurist, and financial advisor Jim Lee. Lee, founder of Wilmington, DE-based Strategic Foresight Investing (StratFI) took first place in the equity-focus strategies category. His [...]
Into the Future: Inspiring the next generation
Life has been busy for alum Garry Golden! The founder and owner of Into the Future has been running a five-day Time Travel week for [...]
Future, Baseball, Systems: All on Mars
Alum and occasional Foresight professor Jim Breaux's latest piece, "The Game is Afoot" hit the stands in last month's The National Pastime: The Future According [...]
New Certificate in Foresight virtual dates
Registration for next year's virtual Certificate in Foresight seminars is now open! Each seminar will run for 5 Wednesdays from 9am - 12pm CST. Our [...]
APF Student Recognition: 1st place tie goes to UH students!
Congrats to students Heather Benoit Kampa and JT Mudge for both receiving 1st place in the Association of Professional Futurists' Masters Individual category.