APF BLOG

Review of Savannah Mandel’s Ground Control: An Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration By Fernando Gutiérrez Olaizola In her...

By Rich Erwin Humans love patterns.  We love to create them, and we love to find them.  Sometimes, the more they seem to wink at us, call...

By Samista Jugwanth In today's fast-paced world, organisations operate in a VUCA environment (volatile, uncertain, complex, and...

By Seth Harrell and Jeremy Wilken On September 22-23, 2024, the United Nations hosted the Summit of the Future , which was an event aimed...

Cecily Sommers shares insights about futures thinking and leadership based on her new online course. By Stephen Dupont When we visualize...

An interview with Dorie Clark, author of The Long Game: How to be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World By JT Mudge Dorie Clark’s...

By Langdon Morris We naturally think of an election as a milestone in the civic culture of a democracy. By expressing their choices,...

By Meredith Bowden A problem with considering “The Future” is that it needs to compete with “Today.”  And Today is messy .  We are...

By Rich Erwin Work/Technology 2050: Scenarios and Actions  is a Millennium Project activity that took three years to complete....

By Jim Dator It is not exaggeration for me to say that one of the most important experiences that led me to discover and co-invent...

By Martin Davis I lead a burgeoning foresight practice as a member of the innovation team at a leading cancer center in Texas. We are in...

By Sara Fogarty As society has evolved over time from a hunter-gatherer and agricultural experience to the modern age, the...

By Vinny Tafuro  The world’s contemporary economic systems are in crisis. Environmental destruction and climate change threaten natural...

By Khalil Zafar Seldom in the course of history has a technology had as much impact on the corporate sector as Artificial Intelligence...

By April Gorelik This year the theme of the Gulf Coast Symposium on HR Issues was "The Future of Work." With bright eyes, cups filled to...

By Ashley Chiarelli Coined by famed management expert and author Peter Drucker in 1959, the term “knowledge workers,” described a new...

By Joshua Barthel and Dan Fukushima While no one would mistake America’s most famous virologist for a poet, Dr. Jonas Salk found uncommon...

By Jessica MK Streit and Jay Vietas Change is all around us, and it is happening more intensely and more rapidly than ever before. It is...

By Jacob Morgan One of the ways that I practice horizon scanning is by constantly having conversations with leaders around the world. ...

By Devin Fidler In an era of rapid technological advancement, the nature of information work is undergoing a profound transformation. To...