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Thought Leadership: A few centuries ago, producing light was a difficult, costly, and time-consuming endeavor. For instance, to produce long-lasting candles, humans had to harvest spermatici oil from whales. Today, [...]

Urgent:  This is the most important TED talk you can watch. If you are concerned about AI--and you SHOULD be--Tristan Harris' brilliant and heartfelt 15-minute presentation offers the most clear [...]

My Fellow Futurists: I am writing to all of you in the spirit of open, honest inquiry. I am deeply concerned about our collective future and feel that we, as [...]

In the fall of 1987, I almost washed out of the Navy’s Officer Candidate School. This is a polite way of saying I nearly flunked out. The crux of the [...]

  The greatest change today is the rate of change itself. The world is accelerating and the implications of technological change will be profound. Nowhere is this more clear than [...]

Editor's Note: As both a practical and a "thought" experiment, I used ClaudeAI to generate this week's newsletter. I did this not because I am lazy (although I can be [...]

If we are to think about the future and do it well, I have one piece of unconventional advice as a long-time professional futurist–Don’t. That is, don't try to think [...]

Futurist Jack Uldrich discuss how a change of heart is leading to a change in the nature of his work.

(Every year, I offer this caveat: As a futurist, I don’t actually claim to make predictions about the future. Still, I know people enjoy predictions so I offer up these [...]

Jack Uldrich explains how a single, tiny can--and will-change the world.

After some reflection, I have decided to share this short, personal story. For too long, as a professional futurist, I have not acknowledged the essential role the human heart will [...]

Futurist Jack Uldrich provides his annual list of ten predictions for the coming year.

Futurist Jack Uldrich offers his annual set of predictions for the coming year.