Blogs about Futures

looking down a typical residential street in the suburbs of london. i love taking pictures like this because the people are out of frame but close by. they form a community, whether by geography, race, …

Some history today … for those of who haven’t clicked away yet, thanks 😊 Good futures work is all about context. While we primarily focus on the future context, we do acknowledge the importance of …

Looking to the next 50 years of Houston Foresight. We hope you’ll join us in 2025 as we glimpse back on the last 50 and get ready for the next! Registration coming soon, but mark …

“Your inner oddness is not a flaw. It’s a superpower!” – Futurist Jim Carroll With a little bit of downtime, I’ve been working in the home office on my next book. The title keeps flipping …

by Mete Yazici The ongoing phase of industrial transformation, known as the fourth industrial revolution, aims to merge the physical, digital, and biological domains through extensive digital innovation (Saldanha, 2019). The pervasive incorporation of digital …

It has been over 25 years since a handful of pragmatic idealists with a penchant for audaciousness started The Long Now Foundation. It was 10 years before the iPhone. Two years before Google. The human …

Elections are always complicated things, although pundits sometimes try to pretend that they’re not. In this post I run through some different narratives or ‘explanations’ of Trump’s victory that I’ve noticed or heard since Wednesday …

“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying“So many social, political, and also economic struggles — no matter what they may appear to be on the surface — are actually about who should …

The pyramid of the 1975 Seward time capsule in Nebraska, billed as the world’s largest, photographed in 2021 and scheduled to be opened in 2025 (Library of Congress) Time capsules are fascinating to me. They …

Tl;dr: The first progress conference was a huge success. Progress Conference 2025 will happen in October 2025, in Berkeley. More info early next year! We’re hiring an Event Manager to help us make this an …

Photo by FlyD on Unsplash “At the 83rd UN General Assembly, UN Special Envoy on Future Generations Celebrates Four Years of Global Transformation” This paper was developed in October 2024 by the School of International …

The Young Voices Council (YVC) is breaking new ground in futures literacy and youth leadership, proving that young people are not just participants in the future—they are its architects. Since the Council’s first meeting, the …

China is aiming to put humans back on the moon within 3-4 years from now, years before the US returns humans to the moon. That will be a huge pychological blow to Americans. With Dreams …