Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” March 8, 2024
This week Futurist jack Uldrich explores advances in artificial intelligence, 3D printing , micro-farms and mircoplastics.
Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” March 1, 2024
Heart-Centered Thinking: I love a great many things--my wife, my children, and my extended family and friends. I also love nature. Specifically, I love lakes, rivers, trees and the earth itself. I tell you this because I am convinced that we will only save what we love. Recently, I had the opportunity to deliver [...]
Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” February 23, 2024
(Editor's note: I've had a busy travel week. This week's newsletter will be succinct.) Heart-Centered Thinking: The murder of Alexei Navalny has left me deeply troubled--and it should you as well. In this piece, "Navalny: A Hero Worth Emulating," I make the case that Navalny is a hero we should all strive to emulate. I [...]
Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” February 16, 2024
Heart-Centered Thinking: If you've ever wondered if I take my own advice and block out large chunks of time to dedicate to the act of thinking, the answer is yes. In fact, I try to pepper in at least a few "think weeks" throughout the calendar year. This year, my wife and I traveled to [...]
Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” February 9, 2024
Heart-Centered Thinking: Last week's link to the post on my change of heart didn't create a workable link so I am reposting it here. Bringing my "whole self" to my work has also prompted me to spend some of my thinking time on what it means to bring my "whole soul" to my work. I [...]
Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” February 2, 2024
Heart-Centered Thinking: After more than two decades of working as a professional and corporate futurist, I am changing and broadening the focus of work. In short, I intend to to bring my whole heart, my whole soul and my whole mind to my work. Unless we reunite the material world with the wisdom of the [...]
Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” January 26, 2024
Heart-Centered Thinking: "What captured me is that people are doing things out of their own good heart." This sentence was just one of many that caught my attention in this fascinating article, "Banking the Most Valuable Currency: Time." The article discusses the growing trend of "time banks." In an over-simplified way, a "time bank" is [...]
Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” January 19, 2024
Futurist and keynote speaker Jack Uldrich's weekly newsletter, "The Friday Future 5"--five trends transforming the world of tomorrow that leaders must think about today.
Jack Uldrich’s “Future Friday 5:” January 12, 2024
Think Optimistically: Let's start this year off on an optimistic note! I enjoyed this post by Noah Smith on Techno-Optimism in 2024. If you are feeling down about the future -- and I'll be the first to admit that there is no shortage of big issues with which we must be concerned -- there [...]
Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” December 15, 2023
Think: It's that time of year! Here is my annual list of "predictions" for the coming year. There should be plenty of "food-for-thought" in the predictions. (To my friends in the agriculture industry, here is another article I wrote this week which should give you plenty to think about: 10 Technologies Transforming Farming Today and [...]