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AI, Personalized Software, and the Future Where Everyone Programs
by Wensupu Yang "If you’re a reader, you are — secretly — a writer," the best-selling novelist Lee Child once said. To paraphrase: If...
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Dec 19, 20245 min read
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EMBRACING DISRUPTION
A review of Disrupt with Impact by Roger Spitz By James Holcombe Disruption isn’t just what happens when your cat jumps in front of your...
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Dec 13, 20245 min read
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Seeing the ends: Access and networks for emerging futures thinkers
by Zabrina Epps To my fellow futures community, Ruben Nelson of Foresight Canada admonishes that it is a governing board’s obligation to ...
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Dec 10, 20246 min read
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Post-schooling Part 2: Visions of emancipated learning spaces
By Zabrina Epps In Part 1 of this blog series, I posed several questions about the future(s) of work and whether current systems of...
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Dec 10, 20248 min read
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Future Unlocked - From Gut Instinct to Proactive Planning
by Elena Krafft In my previous blogpost -‘ Building a Future-Proof Nation: The UAE’s Foresight Journey ’- we have highlighted some...
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Dec 4, 20244 min read
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Myths, Memes, and Metaphors: Insights from Betty Sue Flowers' APF Oceania Fireside Chat Webinar
By James Balzer How can futurists best develop scenarios in uncertain and complex contexts? How can participatory processes be...
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Nov 11, 20244 min read
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Designing for an AI Future: Avoiding the Dystopia
By Rachel Magaji Technology makes work simpler and more convenient. That has been the mantra of many startups seeking to streamline work...
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Nov 10, 20244 min read
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Building a DIY Master in Foresight & Futures Studies: A Path to Lifelong Learning
by Wensupu Yang It’s the year 2050. Futures studies and foresight have gone mainstream, with over a million practitioners. But how did we...
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Nov 8, 20245 min read
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Beyond Fairness: Seeding New Possibilities for Our Future
By amalia deloney This isn’t a critique , it’s a wonderment —a playful exploration of what might be possible when we think about the...
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Oct 22, 20245 min read
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Is it time to consider post-schooling? - Part 1
by Zabrina Epps First, what do I mean by “post-schooling” and why initiate the topic? Let’s try this exercise in perception. What comes...
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Oct 21, 20246 min read
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Building a Future-Proof Nation: The UAE’s Foresight Journey
By Elena Krafft Future and Innovation – two buzzwords that people in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are more than familiar with. They...
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Oct 17, 20245 min read
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NEW BOOK INTRODUCES CHILDREN TO THE FUTURE
Review of Lavie Tidhar and Richard Watson’s The Children’s Book of the Future By Sarah Wheeler I never expected coffee table books for...
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Oct 12, 20248 min read
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OFF BROADWAY: THE APRIARY, A REVIEW
By Sarah Sharif In the first scene of Playwright Kate Douglas’s Off Off Broadway play “ The Apiary ,” the cascading beehive nets and...
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Oct 12, 20244 min read
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WHAT WE OWE THE FUTURE, A MILLION-YEAR VIEW
Book review of William MacAskill’s What We Owe The Future: A Million-Year View By Sami Makelainen , IFTF Affiliate As foresight...
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Oct 12, 20248 min read
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WHAT DOES THE FUTURE NORMAL LOOK LIKE?
Review of The Future Normal by Rohit Bhargava and Henry Coutinho-Mason By Bill DeRouchey How does someone curious about futures and...
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Oct 12, 20245 min read
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BACKCASTING: PLANNING BACKWARD
By Karl Schroeder We’re faced with a “polycrisis,” individually and collectively. We have to chart a path through an increasingly...
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Oct 12, 202415 min read
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HOW TO USE AI TOOLS TO GET THE BEST FORESIGHT INSIGHTS?
By Kasia Kamińska and Kasia Zaniewska We’d like to share with you how you can use note-taking tools and Miro AI to get insights from user...
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Oct 12, 20246 min read
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ENHANCING YOUR IMPACT ON LONG-TERM PLANNING
By Francis Wade As a futurist, or foresight expert, you’re likely eager to make a more significant impact on strategic planning projects...
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Oct 12, 20246 min read
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EXPLORING THE “WHAT IFs” OF THE FUTURE WITH THE FUTURE
By Tumelo Mojapelo Editor’s note: The following article highlights one of the APF’s IF Awards Honourable Mentions. To learn more visit:...
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Oct 12, 20247 min read
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Breaking Free from Sameness: Embracing Degrowth for Innovative Futures
by Suneet Pansare Do you find that everything appears, feels, and sounds increasingly similar nowadays? Over the past 5 years, I have...
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Oct 7, 20244 min read
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