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Sparking a Sense of Hope & Agency
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Designing an Anticipatory Institution
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Deploying Artists as Futurists and Policy Makers
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How a Public Utility Used Foresight to Take Action
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We've confirmed our keynote for the Spring Tech Horizons conference May 4–5: a conversation with Adam Savage of the Discovery Channel show...
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Earlier today, my colleague, Anthony Townsend, sent a note to Technology team members letting us know that he has started using a private del.icio.us...
Over the next few months, I'm going to be experimenting with video blogging for our Technology Horizons subscribers. While most of the Tech Horizons...
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Cyrus Farivar quotes me at the end of his latest NPR Morning Edition piece, "High-Tech Pen Makes Note-Taking Easier." In my sound bite, I reveal that...
A recent piece in the NYT BITS blog has some interesting ramifications for our forecasts on biosocial identities and affinities. It discusses a set of...
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By now everyone is familiar with the hit video game Guitar Hero and its multiplayer offshoot, Rock Band. And while I'd never argue that being able to...