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August “Boot Camp” Is [Still] On!
The big question about any upcoming F2F gathering is “will it happen?” We can’t predict the future (ha ha), but we can say that we [...]
Congrats to our Spring 2020 Foresight grads!
We had a very healthy graduating class of nine Foresight students this Spring! It has been interesting to observe that students are on average going [...]
2020 APF Student Recognition Program winners
It is a great pleasure to announce that Houston Foresight Master’s student Miranda Mantey won 3rd place in the Individuals Master’s category for the year’s [...]
7-Steps to Quantitative Scenario Monitoring
Source: Unsplash Wanting to learn more about developing and measuring indicators, I chose to explore several different techniques for a final project in [...]
Will We fight?
Baseline: Prior to COVID-19 Just under two months ago, most citizens in the Western world were engaged in traditional jobs that required employees to occupy [...]
To the prospective futurist: Escaping the tunnel vision
I am not a religious or very spiritual person. I am science- and data-driven (by nature and by nurture) but I think the process of [...]
What Makes a Futurist a Futurist?
Every so often the media takes a deep dive into the possibilities of what the future may hold. These clusters of news stories tend to [...]
Veterinary medicine and foresight: Can they work together?
Veterinary medicine is an old profession. The first mention of the importance of caring for animals was in the Old Testament of the Bible in [...]
“Pick me! Pick me!”
"Nice weak signals, you got there. Would be a shame if they were to become public." In the popular movie ‘Shrek’, the main [...]
Spiral Dynamics as a Tool for Social Change and Foresight
If you Google Spiral Dynamics, you will find hundreds of images and thousands of websites including, scholarly articles, discussions, blog posts, self-assessments and more. To [...]
Is the Influencer Effect responsible for our shifting culture?
What is The Influencer Effect? The phenomena that “through social media, influencers generate conversation, drive engagement, and set cultural trends” (Mediakix 2019). Influencers are, “social [...]
Alum Book Review: Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort
Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort; An Introduction to Human Ecology, by George Kingsley Zipf (reviewed by alum Greg Turner) A linguist at [...]