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 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 [...]
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: 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 [...]
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 [...]
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