Practical Foresight: 10 Minutes Each Week
Practical Foresight activity #1: 10 minutes each week to discuss signals of change.
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Lindsay
Feb 202 min read
Twelve years of CRISPR
On December 8th, 2023, the FDA announced it approved Casgevy to treat sickle cell disease (SCD), and the excitement is palpable. Casgevy...
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VFS Team
Feb 92 min read
Practical Foresight: First Steps
A checklist for basic ideas and practices for building team foresight.
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VFS Team
Feb 52 min read
Preparing for a Turbulent 2024
Anticipating disruptions and a turbulent year ahead.
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VFS Team
Dec 1, 20233 min read
Choosing Your AI Path
It might surprise some people to learn that formal futures studies has a lot of history in it. When it comes to the topic of economic...
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Richard Lum
Nov 27, 20231 min read
Resisting the Machines
We should not be surprised by groups resisting the arrival of powerful machine and automation tools.
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Lindsay
Nov 21, 20231 min read
Are Artificial Wombs the Future?
European researchers are working on an artificial womb
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VFS Team
Nov 14, 20231 min read
Bioprinting a "mini-brain" Neural Network
Researchers from Monash University recently announced an interesting success in using digital fabrication (in this case, 3D bioprinting)...
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VFS Team
Nov 3, 20231 min read
Making Sense of Crisis and World Order
Big picture discussions on war and the changing world order.
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VFS Team
Oct 13, 20231 min read
Making Sense of AI (Big Picture)
A recent podcast offers a useful high level review of AI governance in the US today.
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Lindsay
Sep 29, 20231 min read
Praise for 4 Steps to the Future
“4 Steps to the Future” by Dr. Richard Lum is a thought-provoking and insightful guide..."
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Richard Lum
May 12, 20232 min read
Where are You Squeezing to Predict, Where are You Relaxing to See Possibilities?
Sometimes we are trying to predict a specific future thing, and other times we are trying to see more of what is possible.
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Richard Lum
May 5, 20232 min read
Practices for Everyday Futures Thinking
Two practices to help with everyday foresight.
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Richard Lum
Mar 3, 20231 min read
Repo in an Autonomous Future
Good foresight requires continuous scanning and emerging issues analysis.
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Richard Lum
Feb 24, 20231 min read
Rebalancing Your Foresight Portfolio
Is it time to rebalance your team’s view of the future threats and opportunities for your organization?
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Richard Lum
Feb 10, 20231 min read
Can You Envision the Machines?
Imagine the world around us in a different way
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Richard Lum
Sep 30, 20221 min read
Hurricanes, Strategic Shifts, and the Hard Work of Foresight
The thing that makes foresight tough, that can make the work we do seem like a Sisyphean existence, has to do with changing minds.
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Richard Lum
Sep 23, 20221 min read
Opening the Aperture
To do good foresight work, especially in today’s turbulent context, one of the things we need is more information about the wider world.
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Richard Lum
Sep 9, 20221 min read
The Future is an Expanding Space
“The future” is an expanding space of possibilities, not a contracting one. This is why we typically talk about the futures ahead of us,...
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