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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 [...]
Museum 2040: A "Future Fiction" Critical Read
Set in the year 2040, the November/December 2017 special issue of Museum is a scenario that describes one of a number of possible futures for [...]
Another Boot Camp in the books
We had another great week of foresight “boot camp” at the University of Houston Hilton from January 15-19. This was a really special week, as [...]
Alum Update: Shupp to Schireson
Lee Shupp has joined the San Francisco of Schireson as a Principal in Strategy & Consulting. Lee brings many years of experience working at the [...]