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Anne Boysen is a strategic foresight professional and international speaker who consults for nonprofits and Fortune 500 companies on consumer trends and generational change.

Boysen uses strategic foresight to help prepare clients for a future that will shape and be shaped by our youngest generation. She is the founder of After the Millennials, a consulting service dedicated to building knowledge around next generation issues and important future trends.

She’s noted that a new generational zeitgeist emerges when younger groups interact with changes in their communities and cultures. Using generational foresight, we can identify pivot points and forecast changes.

In her interview with Plutopia News Network’s Maggie Duval, Anne discusses her focus on generational change, cultural transformation, and the use of data analytics to understand emerging trends.

Arthur Brock devotes his time to projects that he believes support and accelerate the harmonious evolution of humanity, most recently building targeted currencies to shape the social dynamics of an emerging post-industrial economy. He’s created more than a hundred designs for multi-currency systems, and his current project, Holochain, provides an alternative to the blockchain for building and running fully peer to peer distributed applications. Art recently led a series of Holochain workshops and Hackathon in Austin, and took some time for a couple of interviews with our Plutopia correspondents, Benjamin Bradley and Tom Brown.

Arthur’s Austin visit/workshop was sponsored by Thriving Community Solutions, an organization that “offers a regenerative path forward to economic growth and eco-balance.” Here’s a YouTube talk by Thriving Community Solutions founder David Armistead:

It seems everyone wants to be an indie producer. ITunes has 250,000 podcasts online, with more coming online every day, and YouTube has tons of independent content, and a passel of new digital era video celebrities.  But this isn’t a completely new kind of phenomenon – Bob Lewis, aka Tumbleweed Smith, has been an independent producer for more than 50 years. His syndicated radio series, “The Sound of Texas,” recently passed 13,000 episodes aired.

Plutopia’s Scoop Sweeney journeyed into the Texas Hill Country to visit with Tumbleweed Smith as he performed his one-man show at Mason’s Odeon Theater. Listen and learn!

We discuss the state and future of free jazz with one of the hardest working bassists in contemporary jazz, Ingebright Håker Flaten. Born in Norway, Ingebrigt migrated to Austin, Texas, drawn…

Christopher Brown is the author of Tropic of Kansas: A Novel, published in 2017 by Harper Voyager. He was a World Fantasy Award nominee for the anthology he co-edited, Three…

Our second Ed Ward interview is an informed discussion of the future of food.

In 2011,we conducted this interview with Ed Ward, author of The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1963 and Michael Bloomfield: The Rise and Fall of an American Guitar…

“Miller is as quirky and delightful as ever, treating the Southwest as a vast midden from which he plucks many odorous but tasty treasures. The fun, as usual, comes from…

“I don’t call myself an artist, I just make things.” Tom Jennings builds bridges between technology and art, and is currently on faculty with the Calarts Art+Technology Program. He’s a…

David DeMaris is a brilliant convergent renaissance man. By day he’s engaged in the design of VLSI (very large-scale integration) systems, but his interests also include nonlinear dynamics and oscillation…