Thought Leadership: Today’s AI leaders, including Sam Altman and Dario Amodio have both issued thoughtful pieces on the future of artificial intelligence in the past week and yet they seem to be missing an obvious point: Both men assume future advances in AI will take place in a relatively stable political environment. I don’t [...]
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: This Sunday, I am traveling to southern Minnesota to deliver my first-ever presentation on “The Future of Faith.” Here is how the talk is being billed: Spiritually, Jack Uldrich identifies himself as a contemplative Celtic Christian. He is also the best-selling author of 13 books and a noted global futurist. In this engaging [...]
Thought Leadership: One hundred years ago, if you were an elevator operator, you likely feared the creation of “humanless” elevators. Seventy-five years ago, telephone operators feared for their jobs. Today, grocery clerks have the same fear. In the near future, an increasing number of jobs will be automated, including those of Uber and taxi drivers. [...]
Heineken has begun to roll out its new ad campaign “Social Off Socials” which encourages people to put down their phones and socialize with people ‘IRL’ (“in real life). The campaign was produced after the company studied the screen time habits of 17,000 adults worldwide and found that the average person spends 5 hours and [...]
Thought Leadership: What if most people have the political situation wrong? What if the true threat to American jobs is not human immigrants pouring across borders but rather the accelerating advances in artificial intelligence? To better understand this possibility, think of AI bots as “digital immigrants” and then think of these bots as “amassing” along [...]
Thought Leadership: “The Coming Sonic Boom:” Last week, I gave a presentation on artificial intelligence. At the time, I didn’t use this analogy, but this is how you may want to think about the technological era we are currently living: When I was in the Navy, I served aboard an aircraft carrier, The USS John [...]
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, of course, producing light is incredibly inexpensive, and it has produced a great many benefits for society. It has also created the undesirable situation where [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Copyright © 2025 | Jack Uldrich | All Rights Reserved | Site Designed & Developed by: OrangeBall Creative