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Your Future +N
Social change theories are basic tools for futurists. New theories that give different perspectives on change interest us. One such theory is David Ronfeldt’s TIMN [...]
Foresight Certificate Registration Closed for Spring 2018 session
The April 30th - May 4th Professional Foresight Certificate program is now full. We are closing Registration, but not our Waiting List. If you would [...]
Forest Futures: The Gene Genie
My mother is crazy about fishing. Her favorite activity in the world is tooling around the Great Lakes in her boat and landing muskie or [...]
Scanning the Fringe Agenda
Scanning the Fringe is the topic of this year’s The 2018 Houston Foresight Spring Gathering on April 13-14. As futurists we are always scanning for [...]
Futurists in the Media: March 2018 Update
There has been a decline in Google Alerts for ‘Futurists’ since the start of the year. There are some recurring ones, such as the Dr. [...]
Foresight Jeopardy 2018
This year’s Foresight Jeopardy champion is Tim Morgan. In the closest competition yet, Tim earned the victory on the very last question of the game. [...]
Forest Futures: Burj Khalifa: It’s Going Down, I’m Yelling Timber
When Mies Van Der Rohe first imagined the modern skyscraper, he envisioned a soaring skeletal structure of steel clad in glass facets, creating a crystal [...]
Student Tim Morgan on Futurists & Foresight
One of the things that we Houston Foresight grad students do as we wrap-up our degree work in Pro-seminar is deeply explore the futures field. [...]
5 reasons to do a project with Houston Foresight
The Houston Foresight Program launched a concerted effort to develop a research capability as part of the program's strategic planning back in 2014. Thanks to [...]
Foresight Certificate slots are open!
Slots are open for our April 2018 UH Foresight Certificate boot camp! For most people the future feels like a gamble, full of chance and [...]
Futurists in the Media: First Impressions Spring 2018
[Note: Stephen Layman is our new scanner this semester. Here are some of his initial thoughts.] It practically goes without saying that foresight discussion in [...]
A Foresight Certificate Participant's Perspective
We always love to get feedback on our program. The founder of Emergent Strategies, Alexandra Steele, attended our January Foresight Certificate Bootcamp. Here is a [...]