Jack Uldrich’s Final Newsletter as a Futurist: January 2, 2026 Dear Reader: Thank you for subscribing to my newsletter these past many years. Your readership and support have meant more to me than you will know. It is, however, time for me to move on with my life. Let me leave you with three heartfelt [...]
Future Focus A new study shows that driverless cars are between 88-92 percent safer than human-operated vehicles. Given continued advances in AI, LIDAR, and various sensor technologies, I feel it is safe to assume that driverless cars will only continue to get better. Does this then mean that driverless cars are definitely the future? [...]
Future Focus The future of warfare is changing rapidly. For years, I have been telling people that the battlefield of the future is the human mind. Our main adversaries–Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran–already know this and have been using our own social media platforms against us by employing algorithms that encourage Americans to distrust [...]
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.
Future Focus: Artificial intelligence is altering the fabric of truth. If you don’t believe me, I invite you to read this story about how thousands of unsuspecting tourists were recently lured to Buckingham Palace in hopes of visiting a magical-looking Christmas Market. This is not the first case of AI deceiving people, and it certainly [...]
Future Focus: Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, has a new start-up. The company is called LTA Research and it has built an airship (i.e. blimp). This is the first airship built in decades and the company hopes to use future versions to move cargo. It could also be used for disaster-relief missions in remote [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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