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A message from APF Director for Oceania Affairs, Steve Tighe As the APF’s Director for Oceania Affairs, I was proud to host the online...

Hello Futurist Family! I am happy to share with you the progress we have made for tstehe past month, and I would like to thank everyone...

BREAKING THE BOUNDARIES OF REALITY: THE EMERGENCE OF IMMERSIVE TECHNOLOGIES By Prof. (Dr.) Sanjay Rout In thе еvеr-accеlеrating landscapе...

Exploring a vision of mobility for the City of Cape Town in 2050 “The shifts in thinking, shaped by our scenarios, have been widespread...

At the tail-end of January, the Association of Professional Futurists (APF) held its annual Awards Ceremony to recognize outstanding...

Source: ChatGPT/Dall-E prompted by Wendy Schultz People often ask why so many catastrophe movies exist, and so few utopian/protopian...

April Reagan encourages readers to think and act like a futurist in her new book, Bridge Makers: Becoming a Citizen Futurist. It serves...

Collapse comes from the Latin verb "collabi," which means "to fall together." The prefix "col" is the root for "together," and "labi" is...

Source: MidJourney The day we buckled our seat belts in the helicopter is the date humanity 2.0 was set in motion. Six of us, crammed...

Image: Leonardo.ai "Go see the Harry Potter films; they'll give you some good ideas for product development," the head of an...

We have reached a crossroads in human evolution. A juncture that goes to the heart of whether we are just another species on the path to...

Image by Mark Frauenfelder using Midjourney Computer scientist Alan Kay is often credited for saying, “The best way to predict the future...

As the newly elected Chairperson of our dynamic organization, I'm beyond thrilled to dive into this adventure.

This is the continuation of a two-part blog series exploring the intersection of emotions and futures thinking processes. Part 1 explored...

Facilitation is a greatly underappreciated skill. And rightly so. When done right, facilitation should go unseen – an invisible force...

Nuance is our birthright. If speculative futures paint a picture of the future using our senses, Adjacency Theory is an inward journey...

In 2017, we named our strategic foresight practice Techistential,[1] a play on “technology” and “existential.” Today, humanity faces...

Returning to Saudi Arabia this summer after a decade abroad, I was confronted with the rapid urban growth that had transformed the...

In the world of technology, Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing are teaming up to open new horizons and unparalleled...

This story starts with futurist Patricia Lustig and me thinking about existential threats, while we were discussing our next book...