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Analyzing Trends — 90 episodes
The Signal Machine is Not the Thinking Machine
The Invasion Economy
Story Systems in the Age of Creator Cinema
When Nostalgia Becomes Culture’s Operating System
Recycling is a Story System
When Brand Strategy Runs Out of Story
Imagining The Spaces We Will Need
Machines Don't Yawn
Stealing Jester’s Privilege
When the Iceberg Starts to Drift
The Loneliness Problem We’re Not Really Solving
When the Iceberg Starts to Drift
Looksmaxxing and the Cost of Being Seen
The Histories and Futures of Credentialed Intelligence
Beyond the Chat Window
The Grammar of Crisis
The Stories Pictures Tell
Cracks in the Architecture of Bro Culture
The Theater of Human Ideas
The Grammar of the Photo Booth
A Generation Without Thresholds: The social rituals that once marked independence persist in social limbo
The Year We Stopped Waiting for Normal: Revisiting 2025 Trend Themes
The Future Office: What Amazon’s Robots Are Really Telling Us About Work
What Yogurt Bacteria Know About Innovation
From Wellville to the War Department
The Culture Crisis in Consulting
Global Cultural Dynamics 2035
Mapping the Next Television Era
After the Social Network
Seeing Things: Cultural Hallucinations and the Future of Design Thinking and Foresight
The Quiet Crack - What Alien: Earth gets right about hybrid life and why it matters at work.
When Brands Break Culture
Edges & Intelligence
The Dead as Cultural Mirrors
Rethininking Culture in Fashion
Who Owns Innovation?
Shibboleths in Branding
Beyond Emotional Branding
Decoding Scapegoats
Rethinking the Unknowns
Measuring the Irrationality of Culture
Foresight as Augmented Memory
Revealing Implicit Cultural Domains
Sport Design Futures: From Social Change to Data‑Driven Play
The Ozempic Era of Food and Health
The AI Purity Test
Let Machines Be Machines
The Ghosted Generation
The Myth Beneath the Dream
Crate Digging for Intelligence
The Engineered Isolation of Modern Masculinity
Liquid Learning Futures
Quiet Luxury Never Left, It Just Got Louder
Analyzing Possible Futures Using Structured Analytic Techniques
The Semiotics of the New Populist Identity
The Future of Fashion in a Post-Global World
Intragenerational Animus & the Riddle of the Sphinx
Orange Juice Identity Crisis
Post-Post Truth Futures
The Algorithmic Flâneur
Contrasting Trends from 2020 & 2025
Crisis Subcultures
How We Live with Technology in 2025
2025 Trend Themes 2
Measuring Resonance
Language & Meaning (Workshop Study Guides)
Time (Workshop Study Guides)
Structure (Workshop Study Guides)
Are Brands Dead?
Gender Fault Lines
GenAI and the Art of Conversation
Analyzing Trends Student Futures Work
South Korea & USA Synergistic Futures
Post-Hype Design Futures
Post-Global Fashion Design Futures (Culture Mapping Futures Series)
The Future of Food & Beverage (Culture Mapping Future Series)
AI & Bias in Cultural Research (Workshop Study Guide Series)
Culture Mapping the Future of Climate Policy & Action
Music is a Primer for Hybrid Intelligence
Drift Compatibility in the Design Classroom
Narrative Systems Study Guide Preview
The Decline of Third Place
Context & Patterns | Workshop Study Guides
The Future of Talent
Subculture Futures of Work
The Future of Sports Fandom
Culture Mapping Election 2024 Alternate Futures
Decoding Punk Culture
Visualizing Everything I Know by Buckminster Fuller
2025 Trend Themes