More on Foresight Works
For those of you interested in a fuller description of the ASAE Foresight Works project discussed in the previous post, this video from the ASAE Foundation goes into more detail about the project and its purpose.
For those of you interested in a fuller description of the ASAE Foresight Works project discussed in the previous post, this video from the ASAE Foundation goes into more detail about the project and its purpose.
We’ve not done this for a while, but here are some interesting bits from our scanning that caught the eye of FA futurists today. In Sweden, the new ReTuna Återbruksgalleria shopping mall sells only recycled or upcycled goods. Connecting consumers more directly to the recycling/upcycling process could be a way to make the idea of…
DetailsFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Futures of Work: New Report Illuminates Global Opportunities and Disruptions WASHINGTON, DC, January 14, 2016—Workers everywhere will be affected by accelerating disruptions to the world of work—yet people in different economic positions will be impacted in very different ways, according to The Futures of Work, a groundbreaking new report from Foresight…
DetailsThe not-yet launched social rating app Peeple recently caught the attention of the Internet, and the reaction was not kind. By the admission of its founders, Peeple seeks to be “the Yelp for people,” a succinct tagline that detractors immediately seized upon. According to its creators, Peeple seeks to consolidate reviews of ordinary people. Have…
DetailsWe’ve spent much of the last year looking at the future of work. For me that study raises a further question: What’s the future of the meaning of work? Turns out that the TED Radio Hour recently did a series of presentations on The Meaning of Work. Barry Schwartz, Professor of Psychology at Swarthmore College,…
DetailsIn the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that allowed same-sex marriage, there has been a lot of discussion on the how quickly the issue evolved from a fringe concept to a mainstream idea, and how not many people—including gay people—expected opinion to shift as rapidly as it did. You know who did expect…
DetailsThrough 2030, values-based consumption rises among the increasingly prosperous middle classes of emerging markets, and they look to brands for cues. Ethical and ideological concerns carry more weight in brand choice, partially edging out value-for-money and conspicuous consumption as drivers. What’s driving this forecast… Growing middle classes. Global middle classes are adding hundreds of millions…
DetailsI have an article on the future of human rights in the current issue of The Futurist magazine. (Download the article in PDF — courtesy of the World Future Society, www.wfs.org.) I note that human rights are being transformed by “several powerful, positive trends … centered around changes in values and new technology.” I suggest…
DetailsFuturists often talk about values and their impact on the way the future unfolds. Earlier this year, as my wife and I were planning a trip to New Zealand, my Foresight Alliance colleague Josh Calder made me aware of the thesis of David Hackett Fischer’s book, Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies:…
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