Farmers’ Almanac fans and editors mourn loss of beloved ‘American staple’ as futurecasting classic goes out of print — after 208 years
Farmers’ Almanac fans and editors mourn loss of beloved ‘American staple’ as futurecasting classic goes out of print — after 208 years
"It was a very, very tough decision," editor Sandi Duncan told The Post, saying changes in the publishing industry have caused insurmountable financial challenges.
nypost.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Farmers’ Almanac fans and editors mourn loss of beloved ‘American staple’ as futurecasting classic goes out of print — after 208 years
Meu último substack, onde eu exploro práticas de "future casting" para planejamento da vida e da carreira. #futurodotrabalho #simulacao #futurecasting
open.substack.com/pub/reinvent...
open.substack.com/pub/reinvent...
Imaginando o Amanhã: Futuros Possíveis, Selves Possíveis
Projeção, Simulação e Futurecasting
open.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Meu último substack, onde eu exploro práticas de "future casting" para planejamento da vida e da carreira. #futurodotrabalho #simulacao #futurecasting
open.substack.com/pub/reinvent...
open.substack.com/pub/reinvent...
Grateful to @meridianintl.bsky.social for hosting a dynamic
roundtable on Asia’s future. I was honoured to deliver opening remarks & facilitate discussion. This ADB futurecasting initiative highlights how US stakeholders can help drive inclusive, sustainable & resilient growth in the region.
roundtable on Asia’s future. I was honoured to deliver opening remarks & facilitate discussion. This ADB futurecasting initiative highlights how US stakeholders can help drive inclusive, sustainable & resilient growth in the region.
October 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Grateful to @meridianintl.bsky.social for hosting a dynamic
roundtable on Asia’s future. I was honoured to deliver opening remarks & facilitate discussion. This ADB futurecasting initiative highlights how US stakeholders can help drive inclusive, sustainable & resilient growth in the region.
roundtable on Asia’s future. I was honoured to deliver opening remarks & facilitate discussion. This ADB futurecasting initiative highlights how US stakeholders can help drive inclusive, sustainable & resilient growth in the region.
That gave me pause too. Wouldn’t now be the time to advocate the Ds repeal the tariffs rather than surrendering to doomerist futurecasting?
October 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
That gave me pause too. Wouldn’t now be the time to advocate the Ds repeal the tariffs rather than surrendering to doomerist futurecasting?
I was trying to envision a world where AI could pull in all the variables and generate videos of what WILL happen in a scene including futurecasting crimes or some crazy shit until I realized goddammit I just reinvented "Minority Report".
Can today’s AI video models accurately model how the real world works?
New research shows highly inconsistent performance on a variety of physical reasoning tasks.
arstechnica.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I was trying to envision a world where AI could pull in all the variables and generate videos of what WILL happen in a scene including futurecasting crimes or some crazy shit until I realized goddammit I just reinvented "Minority Report".
I am loving the outflow of "get the FUCK out of here with your autism cure-ism eugenicist rhetoric".
If you're doing this, please continue & include #Trans & #BIPOC in your work.
This makes identifying those who are decidedly NOT much, MUCH easier. 🖖
#FutureCasting
#CassandraProtocol
#Unity
If you're doing this, please continue & include #Trans & #BIPOC in your work.
This makes identifying those who are decidedly NOT much, MUCH easier. 🖖
#FutureCasting
#CassandraProtocol
#Unity
a little girl is sitting on a bed and saying `` thank you you da best '' .
ALT: a little girl is sitting on a bed and saying `` thank you you da best '' .
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September 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I am loving the outflow of "get the FUCK out of here with your autism cure-ism eugenicist rhetoric".
If you're doing this, please continue & include #Trans & #BIPOC in your work.
This makes identifying those who are decidedly NOT much, MUCH easier. 🖖
#FutureCasting
#CassandraProtocol
#Unity
If you're doing this, please continue & include #Trans & #BIPOC in your work.
This makes identifying those who are decidedly NOT much, MUCH easier. 🖖
#FutureCasting
#CassandraProtocol
#Unity
someone sent me this speculative futurecasting thing:
ai-2027.com/race
my take:
- the western authors flatter themselves imagining china will steal vs. pioneer the next phase of AI
- the idea that a pure scaling will yield exponential gains ignores growing recognition of the need for symbolic AI
ai-2027.com/race
my take:
- the western authors flatter themselves imagining china will steal vs. pioneer the next phase of AI
- the idea that a pure scaling will yield exponential gains ignores growing recognition of the need for symbolic AI
AI 2027
A research-backed AI scenario forecast.
ai-2027.com
September 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
someone sent me this speculative futurecasting thing:
ai-2027.com/race
my take:
- the western authors flatter themselves imagining china will steal vs. pioneer the next phase of AI
- the idea that a pure scaling will yield exponential gains ignores growing recognition of the need for symbolic AI
ai-2027.com/race
my take:
- the western authors flatter themselves imagining china will steal vs. pioneer the next phase of AI
- the idea that a pure scaling will yield exponential gains ignores growing recognition of the need for symbolic AI
Happy to now resume writing on Medium after a long pause due to my critical illness. Follow me for articles on decentralized identity, Futurecasting, and deep technology.
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Decentralized IDs: A Necessary Step before the Internet of AI Agents can Begin
Decentralized identity provides the missing infrastructure needed for an Agentic AI Internet to establish trust at scale.
medium.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Happy to now resume writing on Medium after a long pause due to my critical illness. Follow me for articles on decentralized identity, Futurecasting, and deep technology.
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A really excellent article, on imagination over blind optimism and collective preparedness over despair. Flipping from blind optimism to despair feels like two sides of the same coin, but Butler showed us a long time ago that there are other paradigms, even when collapse is a real possibility.
Octavia Butler predicted our dystopian present. What can a futurist learn from her chilling accuracy?
“She painted a very clear picture about survival.”
www.motherjones.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
there were some good alternatives! just the idea that this was a place where we needed to take a rhetorical stand lol, it was already very unpopular, and if we do want to get into the futurecasting rhetorical weeds it's as likely as anything that "the big beautiful bill" comes back to bite them
August 12, 2025 at 6:28 AM
there were some good alternatives! just the idea that this was a place where we needed to take a rhetorical stand lol, it was already very unpopular, and if we do want to get into the futurecasting rhetorical weeds it's as likely as anything that "the big beautiful bill" comes back to bite them
this is very good, and no one is asking me to take them back. I suppose i'm just futurecasting and trying to decide how i could justify feeling tender or loving towards them again
July 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
this is very good, and no one is asking me to take them back. I suppose i'm just futurecasting and trying to decide how i could justify feeling tender or loving towards them again
I'm a Sneakers person. Brilliant flick whose futurecasting turned out to be entirely too on the nose.
My name is Werner Brandes. My voice is my passport. Verify me.
That is stuck in my brain forever. 😆
My name is Werner Brandes. My voice is my passport. Verify me.
That is stuck in my brain forever. 😆
July 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I'm a Sneakers person. Brilliant flick whose futurecasting turned out to be entirely too on the nose.
My name is Werner Brandes. My voice is my passport. Verify me.
That is stuck in my brain forever. 😆
My name is Werner Brandes. My voice is my passport. Verify me.
That is stuck in my brain forever. 😆
The Futurecasting book is out!
m.youtube.com/shorts/pXlnM...
#futures #speculativedesign #futurecasting #speculativegamedesign
m.youtube.com/shorts/pXlnM...
#futures #speculativedesign #futurecasting #speculativegamedesign
Practices of Futurecasting Book - Mary Flanagan on futurecasting
YouTube video by CFD Center for Future Design
m.youtube.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The Futurecasting book is out!
m.youtube.com/shorts/pXlnM...
#futures #speculativedesign #futurecasting #speculativegamedesign
m.youtube.com/shorts/pXlnM...
#futures #speculativedesign #futurecasting #speculativegamedesign
the thing about futurecasting lol is some of what I'm thinking will be wrong, untenable, or unnecessary, based on things I don't know of that'll need to be taken into consideration.
just b/c I don't know how the future is gonna play out don't mean I shouldn't think about those future possibilities.
just b/c I don't know how the future is gonna play out don't mean I shouldn't think about those future possibilities.
July 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
the thing about futurecasting lol is some of what I'm thinking will be wrong, untenable, or unnecessary, based on things I don't know of that'll need to be taken into consideration.
just b/c I don't know how the future is gonna play out don't mean I shouldn't think about those future possibilities.
just b/c I don't know how the future is gonna play out don't mean I shouldn't think about those future possibilities.
The Mule is one of the classic antagonists of American Sci-Fi.
He's the fly in the ointment of Hari Seldon's plan; the x-factor that psychohistory, for all its futurecasting, didn't anticipate -- and the Foundation and the galaxy pays the price for that blind spot.
He's the fly in the ointment of Hari Seldon's plan; the x-factor that psychohistory, for all its futurecasting, didn't anticipate -- and the Foundation and the galaxy pays the price for that blind spot.
July 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The Mule is one of the classic antagonists of American Sci-Fi.
He's the fly in the ointment of Hari Seldon's plan; the x-factor that psychohistory, for all its futurecasting, didn't anticipate -- and the Foundation and the galaxy pays the price for that blind spot.
He's the fly in the ointment of Hari Seldon's plan; the x-factor that psychohistory, for all its futurecasting, didn't anticipate -- and the Foundation and the galaxy pays the price for that blind spot.
Concentric recursive circus, futurecasting protests.
July 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Concentric recursive circus, futurecasting protests.
I like the Norgaard signing + think there's a good argument for it.
My issue is Rice, Ode, & Zubi are all top, but then our other main options Merino & Norgaard are fine but quite limited players who will only decline.
I get the Nwaneri + Dowman protection, but it's futurecasting right now.
My issue is Rice, Ode, & Zubi are all top, but then our other main options Merino & Norgaard are fine but quite limited players who will only decline.
I get the Nwaneri + Dowman protection, but it's futurecasting right now.
June 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I like the Norgaard signing + think there's a good argument for it.
My issue is Rice, Ode, & Zubi are all top, but then our other main options Merino & Norgaard are fine but quite limited players who will only decline.
I get the Nwaneri + Dowman protection, but it's futurecasting right now.
My issue is Rice, Ode, & Zubi are all top, but then our other main options Merino & Norgaard are fine but quite limited players who will only decline.
I get the Nwaneri + Dowman protection, but it's futurecasting right now.
I'm so sick of stupid futurecasting,,, Democrats - "He won't do that, ifs unconstitutional! Republicans - if we do what we want you will wonder what to do with all your riches. If not then blame Democrats....
That’s…not the way this works
Tim Scott on stablecoin legislation: "The Walmart or Target folks shopping will see costs coming down, which means prices will stabilize as well. This is good news for the economy, good news like the single one who raised me, good news for seniors on fixed income."
June 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I'm so sick of stupid futurecasting,,, Democrats - "He won't do that, ifs unconstitutional! Republicans - if we do what we want you will wonder what to do with all your riches. If not then blame Democrats....
I will be speaking about Threatcasting and other futurecasting methodologies at the launch of Adamson University's Center for Executive Studies this coming 20 June 2025.
More info about the Adamson Center for Executive Studies (ACES) here: shorturl.at/oTebk
More info about the Adamson Center for Executive Studies (ACES) here: shorturl.at/oTebk
May 26, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I will be speaking about Threatcasting and other futurecasting methodologies at the launch of Adamson University's Center for Executive Studies this coming 20 June 2025.
More info about the Adamson Center for Executive Studies (ACES) here: shorturl.at/oTebk
More info about the Adamson Center for Executive Studies (ACES) here: shorturl.at/oTebk
for ambitious weird and marxist political futurecasting i recently read kohei sato’s ‘slow down’ and have been mulling it over. sort of the opposite of this in many ways tho, by the sound of it
March 31, 2025 at 10:00 PM
for ambitious weird and marxist political futurecasting i recently read kohei sato’s ‘slow down’ and have been mulling it over. sort of the opposite of this in many ways tho, by the sound of it
The UP School of Economics and the Philippine Center for Economic Development invite you to a Graduate Brown Bag Seminar on “Navigating Tomorrow: Introduction to Futurecasting Methodologies” by Victor Fernando R. Ocampo, a speculative fiction writer, technology strategist and foresight practitioner.
March 14, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The UP School of Economics and the Philippine Center for Economic Development invite you to a Graduate Brown Bag Seminar on “Navigating Tomorrow: Introduction to Futurecasting Methodologies” by Victor Fernando R. Ocampo, a speculative fiction writer, technology strategist and foresight practitioner.
Futurecasting as usual
March 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Futurecasting as usual
Recent studies show most gifted people are actually neurodivergent. It's definitely true in my case. I do seem to have some futurecasting and mind reading abilities, but they seem reflexive. They just happen. It's likely due to my Autistic patten matching ability and Mirror Touch Synesthesia.
March 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Recent studies show most gifted people are actually neurodivergent. It's definitely true in my case. I do seem to have some futurecasting and mind reading abilities, but they seem reflexive. They just happen. It's likely due to my Autistic patten matching ability and Mirror Touch Synesthesia.
Out from Birkhäuser 2025, my chapter "Using the power of gamewords" in shaping the future, for the book Practices of Futurecasting: Ways of sharing imagined tomorrows, Edited by: Michael Shamiyeh
doi.org/10.1515/9783...
doi.org/10.1515/9783...
Practices of Futurecasting
A book by and for those who want to shape the future What do designers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and politicians have in common? They all want to shape the future. But how can you make the future – ...
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February 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Out from Birkhäuser 2025, my chapter "Using the power of gamewords" in shaping the future, for the book Practices of Futurecasting: Ways of sharing imagined tomorrows, Edited by: Michael Shamiyeh
doi.org/10.1515/9783...
doi.org/10.1515/9783...