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Houston Foresight Scenario Workshop in Dubai
Maryam Abdulrasool Abu Maleh, Maryam Mohmmed Bin Hammad al Saabri Dr. Andy Hines, Faisal Abdullah Bin Belaila, Dr. Rami Salah Abdalla Al Gharaibeh [...]
Forest Futures: Wood Skyscrapers
Tall buildings made of wood have been reaching skyward in many cities around the world recently. Using cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels, an innovative technology in [...]
Welcome Foresight Fall 2016 New Students
Glenn Akins serves as Assistant Executive Director of a large faith-based non-profit. Based in Richmond, VA. He spent last 36 years helping churches pioneer their [...]
Forest Futures: Concentrated Cities amongst Wilderness
Though seemingly a polar opposite, the topic of the future of cities and urban environments is quite germane to the conversation about the future of [...]
Foresight Certificate Boot Camp Registration for 2017 now open
We are pleased to announce that registration for the 2017 UH Foresight Certificate is now open. The five-day course will take place January 16-20 (and [...]
Forest Futures: Hotdogs Made of Trees?
This is exactly what the doctor prescribed. The fat substitute of the future! This isn’t quite what I was expecting to find when scanning for [...]
Student Dave Ramirez on Software's Right to Life
“Within 50 years a legally binding "right to life" (a right not to be terminated or shut down with violation punishable as a capital offense) [...]
Forest Futures: Facetime the Woods
What's the point of exploring the forest in person, when the risks outweigh the benefits by far? That may be the future question we find ourselves [...]
Futurists in the Media: Early October 2017 Update
A quick roundup of hits from since the September update. About half are from organizational futurists and half from consulting futurists. There’s the typical “change [...]
Forest Futures: May I Camp on You? The Future of Autonomous Ecosystems
Sitting in her self-driving pod on her way to work, Jenny surfed her augmented virtual system for a camping site for her and her partner. [...]
Single Versus Alternative Futures
As part of Futures Research class, we have a discussion forum on the following question: "Why do you think it has taken so long for [...]
Forest Futures: Forests as Therapy
A stewardship strategy for forests is to envision and promote their “value proposition” to the public, or in simpler terms, highlight why they are valuable. [...]