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Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” May 2, 2025

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 and concise definition of the problem humanity faces regarding AI I have yet to hear. It also offers a detailed description of what we, as [...]

By |2025-05-01T20:20:18-05:00May 1, 2025|Future|Comments Off on Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” May 2, 2025

Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” April 25, 2025

Thought Leadership: Generally speaking, I am an optimistic person with regard to the future. However, three trends are now converging that are seriously challenging my outlook on the future. The first and nearest term trend is the rise of authoritarian political regimes around the world, including the U.S. The second trend is the rise of [...]

By |2025-04-24T17:30:37-05:00April 24, 2025|Future, Humility|Comments Off on Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” April 25, 2025

Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” April 11, 2025

Thought Leadership: One definition of leadership is the following: “Leadership means making happen what otherwise would not.” This, however, begs the question: How do leaders “make happen what otherwise would not happen”? One answer is that effective leaders use new, different, and better questions to probe the future. To this end, I like this quote [...]

By |2025-04-24T17:31:02-05:00April 10, 2025|Future|Comments Off on Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” April 11, 2025

Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” April 4, 2025

Thought Leadership: To the right is a partial list of the books I’ve used to put together my course on “Foresight: Why Thinking About the World of Tomorrow is Today’s Most Important Skill”--which I am teaching this Spring semester at the College of St. Benedict’s and St. John’s University. I do not show it to [...]

By |2025-04-10T11:48:48-05:00April 3, 2025|Future|Comments Off on Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” April 4, 2025

Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” March 28, 2025

Thought Leadership: In the coming age of AI, what might be one of humanity’s last remaining superpowers? In light of the news I shared last week suggesting that AI is about to become 1000-fold more powerful within 6 years, now is a good time to begin thinking about this question. One of my answers to [...]

By |2025-04-10T11:48:22-05:00March 27, 2025|Future|Comments Off on Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” March 28, 2025

Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” March 21, 2025

Thought Leadership: Sometimes, we choose not to think things because they are simply too painful to think about. For example, I mentioned last week that scientists have recently found microplastics in rainwater. If these super tiny particles are in the rain, it means they are falling onto the land and being absorbed by plants and [...]

By |2025-03-27T10:58:25-05:00March 20, 2025|Future|Comments Off on Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” March 21, 2025

Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” March 14, 2025

Thought Leadership: I encourage you to watch or listen to this 1-hour podcast conversation between Ezra Kelin and Benjamin Buchanan, the former top White House advisor on artificial intelligence. My main takeaway was this: Artificial general intelligence may be only 2 or 3 years away from “landing” on humanity. Folks, this is a BIG, BIG [...]

By |2025-03-20T17:10:08-05:00March 13, 2025|Future|Comments Off on Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” March 14, 2025

Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” March 7, 2025

Thought Leadership: In his article, “AI Could Usher In a New Renaissance,” Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, writes that AI may soon reach a point at which it could train itself “on self-generated data through a process known as recursive self-learning.” This is true, but if AI can generate its own data and [...]

By |2025-03-13T12:34:26-05:00March 6, 2025|Future|Comments Off on Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” March 7, 2025

An Open Letter to My Fellow Futurists

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 professional futurists, thinkers, imagineers, and creators of the future, have a moral obligation and responsibility to use our respective voices and platforms on behalf of [...]

By |2025-03-02T15:11:19-06:00March 2, 2025|Future, Humility|Comments Off on An Open Letter to My Fellow Futurists

Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” February 28, 2025

Editor’s Note: As many of you know, I have been doing a good deal of “soul” searching and reflecting this past year. As a result, my thinking is changing, morphing and, I feel, growing. To this end, I intend to add two new components to my regular “Friday Future 15” newsletter. The first is called [...]

By |2025-03-06T14:49:01-06:00February 27, 2025|Agriculture, Future, Imagination, Spiritual|Comments Off on Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” February 28, 2025
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