Bill Ziemendorf, Leading Edge Economy Signals Team
When the Envision brand went public in 2020, following 30 years’ service as Bay Area Community Council, the plan was to teach Strategic Foresight to the entire community, sharing what the Envision board members had, themselves, learned. But the board knew they’d have to commit to more than sharing what they’d learned; they’d have to live it. Learn about our community of choice.
Jim Golembeski, Upward Mobility Signals Team
As we prepare for Greater Green Bay’s fourth annual celebration of World Futures Day, I can’t help but reflect on how things were in northeast Wisconsin 25 years ago—if we’d only known then what we know now! But we did not, and we paid a huge price. Read about missed signals here and here.
We welcomed 15 new strategic foresight students, representing GRACE, Schreiber Foods, Oneida Professional Services, YMCA of Greater Green Bay, Packer Freight, and the Inclusa Foundation. See their pictures and read their collective story. Meet the 2024 Fall SF Cohort.
Nanette Nelson, Envision Board Member
The State of the Future 20.0 is a whopping 500-page overview of the current situation and prospects for the future of the world—a report card for humanity. Nearly a thousand futurists, scholars, and other experts organized by The Millennium Project have produced this magnum opus, which provides humanity’s prospects for the future in clear, concise language. Learn about The State of the Future 20.0.
Nanette Nelson, Envision Board Member
Those practicing strategic foresight have heard about signals and drivers. But how are they different, and how are they used to envision the future? Understanding the role of drivers is important. Learn about drivers of change.
Jim Golembeski, Upward Mobility Signals Team
Our Wisconsin workforce continues to set records. Numbers from June 2024 show a record 3,048,600 people employed in our state with a Labor Force Participation rate of 65.5%, 3% above the national average. So who are these people, supposedly sitting on the sidelines, unwilling to work? Read about the housing our workforce.
Judy Nagel, Upward Mobility Signals Team (with guest authors Paula Breese, Lynn Coriano, and Sarah Inman)
Upward mobility is driven by policy – which can catalyze or sabotage. In the United States, due to our policies, it takes five generations to move from low income to the middle class. The world’s top five countries in terms of social mobility all have this in common: a solid foundation for early childcare and development. Read about our local childcare crisis.
Nanette Nelson, Economic Transformation Signals
Read Burge’s insightful book to meet this increasingly significant group – Americans who say they have no religious affiliation. Read the review here.
Nan Nelson, Upward Mobility Signals Team
A recent American Library Association report found younger generations using public libraries, both in person and digitally, at higher rates than older ones. And they’re not just reading, but gaming, playing music, hanging out — essentially reimagining learning. Read the story here.
Nan Nelson, Upward Mobility Signals Team
With AI’s future still unwritten, Nightshade, a project from the University of Chicago, gives artists recourse from AI theft by rendering data useless or disruptive to AI model training. Ben Zhao, a professor who led the project, compared it to “putting hot sauce in your lunch so it doesn’t get stolen from the workplace fridge.” Read the story here.