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June 9, 2026

Are Futures Having a Moment?

I could be over-indexing on my own network here, but there certainly seems to be an uptick in both the number of folks fashioning themselves as futures/foresight practitioners and the number of companies dipping an exploratory toe or two into the waters of strategic foresight. All of which would be totally understandable given… (gestures vaguely at the world)… everything.

While I generally regard the upward trend of interest as a good and encouraging response to a context of persistent uncertainty amid the slow-motion collapse of old systems and ways of doing/thinking, I also think now might be a perfect time to talk about what it looks like when foresight goes wrong.

I see three typical failure modes. …

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