About us
Columbus Futurists is the region’s “imaginetic center,” creating and curating ideas and images of the future. Columbus Futurists imagines not only crises but also opportunities and preferred futures.
Columbus Futurists imagines the future of energy and the environment, education, technology, society and culture, politics and the future of Central Ohio.
The first step in creating a better a future is to imagine it. Please join us and help create the future.
Upcoming events
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Future Ohio: There Is No Such Thing as the Ohio Economy
·OnlineOnlineColleagues,
Please join us on Thursday March 19 at 12:00 noon (eastern) for the first of our Future Ohio 2076 Public Forums, a webinar series from America 250-Ohio, in partnership with Columbus Futurists. “Future Ohio: There Is No Such Thing as the Ohio Economy” kicks off the series: https://osu.zoom.us/j/93451873651?pwd=RXIyZ2t5RjRqRG02UGQ1aEFVQ1NFZz09
Join us to explore what’s driving Ohio today, and what forces like AI and demographic shifts could mean for key pillars such as manufacturing and agribusiness in the future. Special guest Bill LaFayette, Owner of Regionomics, will present, followed by audience Q&A.
Hope to see you all on the 19th,
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David J. Staley, Ph.D.
President, Columbus Futurists
614.316.1348
columbus.futurists@gmail.com
http://columbusfuturists.org
https://davidjstaley.substack.com/
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