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

Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” January 24, 2025

Think: I've written extensively on the power of the human imagination but I'd never contemplated the notion that we are "living in the product of other peoples' imagination"--and, yet, it is true. As I argue in this post, The Future as Battle of Imaginations, this startling insight of “living in the imagination of other people” [...]

By |2025-01-28T21:11:17-06:00January 23, 2025|Agriculture, Farming, Future, Imagination, Paradox|Comments Off on Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” January 24, 2025

The Future as a Battle of Imaginations

Recently, I was listening to Kristen Tippett interview Adrienne Maree Brown on her podcast “On Being.” One particular phrase from their conversation jumped out at me. Brown said we “are living in the imagination of other people.” “That’s it,” I thought to myself. As a futurist, I have written and spoken extensively about the vital [...]

By |2025-01-28T21:10:56-06:00January 23, 2025|Future, Imagination, Spiritual|Comments Off on The Future as a Battle of Imaginations

The Light of Unlearning

Often, the first step to solving an old problem is viewing your situation--and the tools at your disposal--in a new light. If you want to watch a short, fun and inspirational video, check out this two-minute YouTube clip on a simple solar solution:

By |2011-09-17T00:01:14-05:00September 17, 2011|Creativity, Imagination|Comments Off on The Light of Unlearning

To Grow: Unlearn

If you can unlearn your ideas about what is possible, you can grow almost anywhere. Related Posts The Tree of Unlearning A Plant Whose Virtue Has Yet to Be Discovered

By |2011-08-05T17:29:02-05:00August 5, 2011|Imagination, Trees, Wisdom|Comments Off on To Grow: Unlearn

A Curious Connection? Brains, Mind Maps and the Universe

Take a look at the pictures to the right. The symmetry between microscopic neurons and a macroscopic galaxy is rather surprising. Is there a connection between the two? Honestly, I don’t know but I do believe the human mind is capable of discovering the answer. To this end, I invite you to watch this six [...]

By |2011-05-14T08:07:04-05:00May 14, 2011|Creativity, Future, Imagination|Comments Off on A Curious Connection? Brains, Mind Maps and the Universe

God Dome It! Unlearn!

The Saint Ignatius church in Rome was originally designed to include a cupola. For financial reasons, the feature was never built. In moment, sparked by Divine intervention perhaps, Church officials hired Andrea Pozzo to paint a fake dome on the ceiling over the altar. Today, more than 300 years later, many visitors are shocked to [...]

By |2011-04-13T07:44:31-05:00April 13, 2011|Creativity, Imagination|Comments Off on God Dome It! Unlearn!
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