In addition to the 49 total tertiary courses majoring in futures and foresight, we also found 7 programs that are not expressly futures or foresight but are related in some manner. In the academic world, the focus is obviously on teaching foresight to long-term students. Post-graduate diplomas are less common than masters degrees, but even they outnumber the undergraduate courses.
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The list is split up by the scope of each association. We have categorized five associations as global in scope and ten associations that are more targeted on a specific region or nation. Another four associations are even more focused on particular sectors.
Besides making the work of a futurist more efficient, these services are helping to make futures thinking more accessible to a broader public.
A diary of my trip to NY for the Association of Professional Futurists conference: New York was awesome. They just have a higher tolerance for apathy while Seoul has a higher tolerance for cuteness than any place on Earth including Japan--at least when I was there. I went to the WTC several times. I had to take … Continue reading The Big A(pple)PF Conference