Dr. Andy Hines

After Capitalism Shift #8: From PRIVATE to COMMONS - Hinesight....for Foresight There are aspects of everyday life that we consider so normal that we don’t even question them anymore. We recently discussed how everyone should have a job and go to work, but if we take a historical...

In After Capitalism, The Circular Commons image describes a move away from private approaches to social, political, and economic commons, as part of re-balancing our priorities from personal accumulation to collective well-being.
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7 Steps for Better Scanning - Hinesight....for Foresight Curious about how professionals really “see” what’s coming next? At the UH Foresight Program, we’ve had the privilege of collaborating with more than 100 organizations—governments, corporations, non-p...

Unlock better foresight skills in just 5 minutes! After decades of working with orgs, I see the same scanning mistakes -- even among pros. Check out my new video: “7 Tips for Better Scanning.” Are you guilty of any? Watch & test your future-thinking game!
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A post-work future is coming! It is looked at w/ fear and trepidation. Full employment is an unquestioned goal. Wrong goal! Within the context of capitalism, this backwards thinking makes sense, since jobs = survival. But it's changing!
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There are Alternatives to Capitalism - Hinesight....for Foresight While doing some After Capitalism scanning over the weekend, I was surprised – or is it dismayed – by how many references there still are to “there are no alternatives to capitalism.” That was certain...

I'm surprised by how many references there still are to “there are no alternatives to capitalism.” More and more ideas are emerging about alternatives to capitalism, e.g., Circular Commons, Non-Workers Paradise, and Tech-Led Abundance.
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After Capitalism Shift #6: From PAST to FUTURE - Hinesight....for Foresight Much, if not most, of the work looking at alternatives to capitalism spends a great deal of time focused on the past. This is important to do. I have an undergrad degree in history and I love and appr...

Much of the work looking at alternatives to capitalism focuses on fixing past wrongs. Understandable, but a danger is we end up recycling used futures. After Capitalism advocates shifting our focus to creating and building new futures (with the past in mind).
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After Capitalism: What the Signals Are Saying Q3 2025 - Hinesight....for Foresight Here is the third of the quarterly check-ins for 2025 on what the signals are saying regarding After Capitalism. (See Q2 2025 here.) Drum roll please! The Right’s War on Capitalism Some on the right a...

Q3 '25 check-in on what the signals are saying regarding After Capitalism. Might the Left find common ground with the Right? More degrowth signals with limitarianism, the academic version of Enoughness. And of course, more escapism, this time seasteading.
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After Capitalism Revisted on FuturePod - Hinesight....for Foresight Peter Hayward, former leader of the great Foresight program at Swinburne that was shut down, has been doing the amazing Futurepod podcast for the last several years. My recent visit was episode 228 ,,...

Peter Hayward has been doing the amazing Futurepod podcast for the last several years. He had me back on Episode 228 to talk about what's happened with After Capitalism since it came out this year (updating our initial chat 3 years ago on Episode 149).
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How Degrowth Will Save the World - Hinesight....for Foresight I finally got to the brilliant Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel. It is exquisitely researched, informative, insightful, and well worth reading. It is a worthy edition to ...

Finally got to the brilliant Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel. A most worthy edition to the ecosystem of ideas emerging re: After Capitalism. It is a take-down. Not my approach, but healthy ecosystems are comprised of variety.
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After Capitalism Shift #5: From GROWTH to DEGROWTH - Hinesight....for Foresight The growth question earns a place among the top ten shifts for After Capitalism. Let’s start with the bad news. Growth is practically sacrosanct. We are taking on a fundamental myth-metaphor of human ...

From Growth to Degrowth is #5 of the top 10 shifts for After Capitalism. The challenge: Growth is practically sacrosanct. It's a fundamental myth-metaphor of human existence. Degrowth invites questioning looks and ridicule. But, there is good news...
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Talking about Images of Post-Capitalist Futures - Hinesight....for Foresight HINT: Stick around for a chance to earn a copy of Imagining After Capitalism! Foresight student and chronicler-of-the-future extraordinaire Tristan Markwell (see his Notes from the Future recorded a c...

Talking about images of post-capitalist futures
Foresight student and chronicler-of-the-future extraordinaire Tristan Markwell on “what’s happened with the After Capitalism topic since the book launch …sliced up into a series of short video topics:
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After Capitalism Shift 3: From Scarcity to Abundance. Capitalism says we need to support entrepreneurs and the tech sector to stimulate the path to abundance. because there is not enough. Let’s stop right there. There is enough. www.andyhinesight.com/after-capita...

“Post-Growth Finance” Reviews Imagining After Capitalism - Hinesight....for Foresight The After Capitalism plot is thickening. Check out this nice review of the book on Substack. But perhaps more interesting is who it came from and the work he and his institute are doing! Matt Orsagh f...

The After Capitalism plot is thickening with a nice review of the book, but perhaps more interesting is it came from someone specializing in post-growth finance. Who knew?
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After Capitalism Shift #4: From MASTERS OF Nature to PARTNERS WITH Nature - Hinesight....for Foresight Capitalism’s view of nature is that it is something to be conquered and exploited. The more science and technology has advanced, the greater our sense of dominance over nature has grown … to the point...

The “dominion over nature” view aligns with modern values — winning, achieving, conquering … no matter the cost. The After Capitalism view, supported by integral and postmodern values is of stewardship .. using nature’s bounty in a regenerative way.
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Tech-Led Abundance Not Techno-Capitalism - Hinesight....for Foresight Hopefully, the newly popular Techno-Capitalism will quietly fade away. But we know that hope is not a strategy and we may have to gear up to fight this. Our After Capitalism version is Tech-Led Abunda...

Hopefully, Techno-Capitalism, which amplifies the worst features of capitalism will quietly fade away. In After Capitalism, Tech-Led Abundance's core argument is moving from a scarcity to an abundance mindset and redistribution of that abundance.
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Review of Andy Hines’s Imagining After Capitalism: Images of Post-Capitalist Futures - Hinesight....for Foresight A very nice review of Imagining After Capitalism by Tristan Markwell, a student in our Houston Foresight program [BTW, his Notes from the Future series is absolutely top-shelf!] I really like how he s...

Tristan Markwell reviews Imagining After Capitalism. Crisp summary of the images and the book: an essential reference for understanding how positive images of the future relate to one another, how we might get to them, and what dangers we may have to navigate. www.andyhinesight.com/review-of-an...

After Capitalism Top 10 Shifts: #2. From ECONOMY to SOCIETY - Hinesight....for Foresight (Last time we covered Shift #1 From First To Second Tier Values) Stop and think about our daily life. Our overriding purpose centers on our economic contribution. Am I doing my duty in terms of bringi...

After Capitalism Top 10 Shifts: #2 From ECONOMY to SOCIETY. Daily life. Our overriding purpose centers on economic contribution. Am I doing my duty in terms of bringing in money, and then spending it? Everything is monetized. We're an economy, not a society. www.andyhinesight.com/after-capita...

Keeping Our Eye on Transformation: Imagining After Capitalism - Hinesight....for Foresight I have a new short piece on how Imagining After Capitalism relates to transformation (perfect for a little holiday reading). It highlights the

A new short piece on how Imagining After Capitalism relates to transformation in the new "Human Futures." I note that when a potential transformational future is identified, the existing system is excels at “fighting it off.” A long struggle is ahead.
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Beware the Head Nod - Hinesight....for Foresight Our biggest fear in writing the Activating the future book and teaching the class is the head nod. The head nod is when something makes immediate sense. It seems and perhaps is obvious. It immediately...

Beware the Head Nod: Our biggest fear in the Activating the future book and class is the head nod ... when something makes intuitive sense and triggers an “I agree” reaction. This doesn’t mean we are going to do it. We've got to etch it in our brains.
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After Capitalism Top 10 Shifts: #1 From First To Second Tier Values - Hinesight....for Foresight Another way to phrase this is: From ONE-RIGHT-WAY (traditional, modern, and postmodern) VALUES to MULTIPLE WAYS (integral) is the #1 shift needed for After Capitalism. Integral values are the first 2n...

After Capitalism Top 10 Shifts: #1 From First To Second Tier Values. In short, Tier 1 values holders believe their way is the right way, and Tier 2 values adopt a more practical, functional fit-to-context approach. We need more Tier 2!
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Rules of Foresight, Part 1 - Hinesight....for Foresight Note: I’m thinking of an occasional series of some key aspects of foresight, which I can in return relate to the future of After Capitalism. Let’s start with one of my favorites. It goes way back to m...

Rules of Foresight, Part 1. The basic orientation of humans to change is most would rather not. On the road to After Capitalism, we must expect lots of resistance. We are proposing change to the prevailing paradigm – change at deepest level! www.andyhinesight.com/rules-of-for...

Review: Bronze Age Mindset - Hinesight....for Foresight Brace yourself. If you’re not familiar with the Bronze Age Pervert, it can be shocking. I debated whether to indirectly promote this book by blogging on it, as it has some pretty abominable material. ...

Review: Bronze Age Mindset. In thinking about pathways to After Capitalism, we need to think about “off-the-grid” ideas and groups outside of mainstream society, and their motivation, Enter the Bronze Age Pervert.
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A Technique for Guiding Images: Imagining the Future After Capitalism - Hinesight....for Foresight I reviewed dozens of books and reports touching on aspects of After Capitalism. Ultimately, I selected twenty-eight works for deeper analysis with an image analysis template that I crafted specificall...

"A Technique for Guiding Images" article shares observations from using an image analysis template for Imagining After Capitalism that I crafted specifically for this project and encourage others to use for whatever topic about the future you are exploring
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Houston Foresight Turns 50 - Hinesight....for Foresight

Houston Foresight turns 50. Higher education has not been kind to foresight programs. Ours is the first grad program dedicated to foresight to make it to 50 years, which celebrated with a phenomenal Spring Gathering. www.andyhinesight.com/houston-fore...

The Role of Values in After Capitalism - Hinesight....for Foresight With the proverbial magic wand, and one change to make to facilitate the transformation to After Capitalism, I choose …. Shifting Values! Regular readers know I’ve been championing values shifts for s...

With a proverbial magic wand, I choose Shifting Values! So when I saw a call for “Designing Transitions and Future-Making for Systems-Level Change,” I crafted “The Role of Values and Worldview in Societal Transitions: The Case of “After Capitalism.” www.andyhinesight.com/the-role-of-...

Review: Solnit’s Hope in the Dark - Hinesight....for Foresight We have discussed what we futurists and change agents might do in the current turbulence ... we believers in After Capitalism know that we have a long and challenging road ahead. It may be tempting to...

The road to After Capitalism is a long and challenging road ahead. It may be tempting to fall into either cynicism or despair. Rebecca Solnit’s classic "Hope in the Dark" is just what the doctor ordered! www.andyhinesight.com/review-solni...

After Capitalism: What the Signals Are Saying Q1 2025 - Hinesight....for Foresight NOTE: The After Capitalism paperback is back for sale on Amazon (the initial run sold out and there were, um, issues with replenishing … now resolved!) Here is the slightly late first installment of t...

Q1 '25 check-in on what the signals are saying regarding After Capitalism. ‘No Buy’ 2025 Is a Growing Trend; Finding Peace and Purpose Off the Grid; and It's burger time… Startup Lets You Take Out a Micro-Loan to Get Fast Food. Hmm.
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De-premiumization - Hinesight....for Foresight So many organizations today are seeking the exalted premium segment of customers. Premium of course requires a regular or mass segment to distinguish itself from. Perhaps nothing is a more damming ill...

Depremiumization. More and more organizations are chasing premium. The perversity of the current system -- and the need for After Capitalism -- is overtly pandering to the few. The numbers, tho, suggest de-premiumization is more aligned with the emerging future. www.andyhinesight.com/de-premiumiz...

Convenience Is the Enemy - Hinesight....for Foresight What is the mindset change needed to facilitate the transformation to After Capitalism? Put differently, what is the core promise of capitalism that needs to be adjusted? I submit it’s convenience. If...

What is the mindset change needed for After Capitalism? What is the core promise of capitalism that needs adjusting? Convenience! The promise of an easy life in the hard times ahead is dangerous. How do you capture the shift? FROM convenience TO what?
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The Road to After Capitalism: Opportunity in Chaos - Hinesight....for Foresight Few would deny that we are in a period of chaos. Perhaps fewer would believe that this is actually an excellent time to be working on the long-term future. I’d like to make the case that now is a grea...

Now, amidst the chaos, is a great time to be building the road to After Capitalism (granted "building” right now is building interest. Two key principles: (1) Don’t stay “down” in down time and (2) Not all things are affected equally in chaos.
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Your Most Significant Foresight Challenge? - Hinesight....for Foresight What is the most significant challenge you face in getting your foresight work implemented within organizations? The #1 complaint I hear from clients with foresight projects is some version of “I don’...

What is the most significant challenge you face in getting foresight work implemented?

The #1 complaint I hear is some version of “I don’t know what to do with this” or “I don’t know how to get them to act on it.” What “form” do you hear it in?
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