Blogs about Futures

photo caption: a mural on the side of a building in downtown oakland on 14th street. featured on the multistory mural are oakland’s culture makers and places. there’s a bit of greenery and some other …

It’s hard to believe I’ve been doing this Foresight Spring Gatherings at the University of Houston for 10 years now. When I took over the program in 2014, I really wanted get a regular Gathering …

More than 100 students, alumni, and friends of the University of Houston Foresight program met in Houston for the 2024 Spring Gathering to explore Being and Becoming Human. Travelers came in from as far as …

“Your attitude should get you everything!” – Futurist Jim Carroll The business of recruitment is broken. In the last many years, much of it has moved to a world of automated resume processing, analytical examination …

by Chris Mayer By introducing students to multiple disciplines, a general education curriculum provides students opportunities to acquire the knowledge, skills, and habits of mind necessary for meaningful lives as citizens and members of the …

One evening in the early 01970s, Long Now cofounder Stewart Brand found himself at a meeting where a young environmental activist named Peter Berg was speaking. According to Brand’s biographer John Markoff, Berg made a …

As May Day approached this year I finally got round to a small project I’d been meaning to do for a few years now. This was to read Peter Linebaugh’s book The Incomplete, True, Authentic, …

Young people are literally wired to challenge the status quo, to think outside the box. (more)Strategy that an evolution could follow, would be to create a vehicle that reliably tended to start believing that the …

Experimental musicians Luigi Russolo and Ugo Piatti in their Italian workshop circa 1916 (Internet Archive) What will music sound like in 100 years and what tech will people be using to hear it? Those are …

Today we’re opening applications for the 2024 cohort of The Roots of Progress Blog-Building Intensive, an 8-week program for aspiring progress writers to start or grow a blog. Last year, nearly 500 people applied to …

Thomas Tichar at SOIF 2023. A guest post by Thomas Tichar, SOIF 2023 retreat participant and advisor in socio-economic inclusion and foresight in food systems at Wageningen University & Research. A few years ago, a …

Join Us in Empowering Young Visionaries — Support the NGFP-Young Voices Awards Program As we navigate through the challenges of the 21st century, the need to empower our youth with the skills, knowledge, and motivation …

An update on the nearing completion of the 10,000-year clock as it begins ticking underground in west Texas. Danny Hillis answers frequently asked questions about the 10,000-year clockI am all for the Enhanced olympics. It’s …