Blogs about Futures

cars at a busy intersection wait for their turn to drive. the surroundings are mid-rise city buildings with just a cloud or two in the bright blue sky. somewhere, just out of frame, a person …

Futurists suggest change … and most people/clients would rather not. Sometimes I think it is helpful to get back to basics and really grasp this simple essence of what we do — persuade people to …

The 2024 APF Student Recognition awards were announced and, once again, we had some winners! It is quite an amazing set of projects. Please do take a look at them! Olivia Cuellar, Carlo Lopa, and …

“You’ll never regret the gift of change!” – Futurist Jim Carroll It’s often the case that the change you need to make is the hardest change to face – when you are facing that change. …

by Oliver Markley, PhD Introduction Many seemingly insurmountable challenges face the achievement of preferred futures that are economically just, ecologically sustainable, and socially inspiring (Markley, 2015, Inayatullah, 2018); for example, the way that social media …

Off the coast of Costa Rica, at a depth of 321 meters, the school of cutlassfish hung suspended in the water column. Bright light glinted off of their shining scales, creating scintillating patterns of pink …

I was at a meeting at Mansion House in London earlier this month organised by New Capital Consensus, which is a research group looking at how “to identify the behavioural, political and regulatory levers necessary …

Attending an event on cryonics this last weekend tempts me to revisit the topic. And given the crazy tiny number of folks who have signed up for it (~4K), compared to the vast numbers of …

Dogs photographed in the 1860s by O. Lawson (J. Paul Getty Museum) Humans have loved their dogs ever since they were first domesticated roughly 18,000 years ago. But that incredibly long journey through time has …

Progress Conference 2024 is shaping up to be the main event for the progress community going forward. We now have: Five more great speakers. Jason Carman (documentary filmmaker at S3), Celine Halioua (CEO at Loyal), …

New York roundtable on Long-Term Governance and Future Generations: Innovations in Implementing the SDGs. Against the backdrop of the UN High Level Political Forum and the looming end to negotiations of the Declaration on Future …

Hey there, future changemakers! Are you between 12 and 17 years old and bursting with ideas to make the world a better place? The Next Generation Foresight Practitioners - Young Voices (NGFP-YV) Awards are here …

Read this excellent summary of the state of the art in fusion energy: why progress has been slow and why it may now speed up. Or not! Highly recommended. Will We Ever Get Fusion Power?