Future Focus: I have faith in the future. I do not have blind faith in the future of technology. If you are an investor, I encourage you to read this piece I recently wrote on AI's Achilles Heels. The article highlights four commonly overlooked AI risks. Now, I am NOT a financial advisor so would [...]
I am not an expert on what’s going on in the field of artificial intelligence. As a professional futurist, though, I am trained to see and think about what others may not be seeing. To this end, I have four observations that may prove helpful to AI investors. First, all the leading AI players are [...]
In the book “The Sun Also Rises,” Ernest Hemingway wrote the line, “Gradually and then suddenly,” to describe how a character went bankrupt. The phrase also neatly captures how our future is poised to change because of three transformational issues: the burgeoning national debt, accelerating advances in artificial intelligence, and the looming climate crisis. Let’s [...]
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 [...]
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 matter was that I had a difficult time comprehending what I considered to be the dark art of celestial navigation. Passing the course required a [...]
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 in the field of farming. Below are twelve trends I expect to continue to transform the agricultural industry in the year ahead. Satellite Technology: On [...]
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 lazy) but because I was genuinely curious about how well AI could curate a newsletter. The short answer is that it did a good although [...]
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 about the future. First, become grounded in the present and learn to meditate. The practice of meditation takes a lifetime to master and I certainly [...]
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 10 “predictions” not because I believe they will happen exactly as I describe but rather to encourage you to think about how you, your business [...]
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 play in transforming the future. I don't know what this means for my own future as a "futurist," but I am no longer going to [...]
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.
Editor’s Note: Beginning today, this newsletter–formerly known as ‘The Friday Future Fifteen”--is being rebranded into “Faith in the Future.” The newsletter will continue to cover future trends and the first section will offer articles relevant to the general reader. The second section, “Farm Focus,” will be focused exclusively on farming and the agricultural concerns, and [...]
(Editor's note: This article is scheduled to appear in the fall Edition of "Compass"--the professional journal of futurists. It will be available in PDF form soon). In Letters to a Young Poet, the German poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke once wrote: “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to [...]
The Internet was down in my office yesterday. Normally, I spend Thursday’s working on this newsletter but, due to the outage, I was serendipitously gifted the opportunity to reflect on the future direction of this newsletter. Specifically, what is it that I want to say and what would I like you, the reader, to do [...]
Dear Readers, Last week, I promised I’d share a link to my talk “The Future of Faith in an Era of Accelerating Change." The gist of the 40-minute presentation is simple: A perfect storm of technological, political, economic, and environmental change is coming. Trust is breaking down, long established political and financial institutions are on [...]
Dear Readers: This week, I am sharing two short pieces. The first is entitled "The Man Who Planted Trees: A Blueprint for My Spiritual Future" and it explains how Jean Giono's beautiful little book, "The Man Who Planted Trees" continues to shape my life--and future. The second article offers a brief preview of a talk [...]
This Sunday, I will be giving a presentation at Christ the King Catholic Church in Southwest Minneapolis on “The Future of Faith in an Era of Accelerating Change.” (I hope the talk will be recorded and, if it is, I’ll post a link to it in a future edition of this newsletter.) One of the [...]
The book, The Man Who Planted Trees, may be an unusual place to have begun a spiritual journey but, in my case, it happens to be true. I first recall reading the short, little book 20 years ago and it has been working on my soul ever since. The effect has been so profound, in [...]
As I start out on my spiritual journey, I’d like to begin with this quote from Emily Dickenson: “The sailor cannot see the North, but knows the needle can.” For most of my professional career as a futurist, I have relied on my mind to understand and navigate the future. I no longer have faith [...]
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