Australia's Future - A prediction about the nature of the impending Republic of Australia.
Social Fiction - S. Flor - Report from the year 2029: local markets have become an important complement to the established global economic system.
Reflections Of A Changing Era - Reflections Of A Changing Era, The American Dream, by Jim Bickford.
ROBOT: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind, by Hans Moravec - Additional figures and text for Moravec's book on the next six decades.
Dr. Arthur B. Shostak - Professor of Sociology, and futurist. Includes his essays and book reviews.
Future's Edge - Topics include world population, stem cell research, limits of science, climate change, and anthrax. Includes links to other resources.
News for a Synergic Earth - A collection of discussions and articles focused on culture, systems thinking and how to create a more sustainable future.
Futurlogics, a System of Prospective Thinking - Research method and a predictive model for dealing with the unknown.
Manifesto for the Peoples of the Third Millennium - An outline of processes for developing progressive alternative societies.
Saving the Future - Suggests key changes that lead to an acceptable future. Offers articles and forum.
Carfree City Design - Exploring the prospect of designing auto-less, sustainable communities with alternative transportation, renewable energy, pedestrian orientation, mixed-use zoning, fiber optics and recycling facilities in all units and other green features to aid in long-term quality of life survival.
Innovation Watch - Follows developments in science, technology, business, society and the environment and assesses their impact.
Future Studies - Essays on change, the future of humanity, and transhumanism, by Nick Bostrom; archival site, no longer updated.
Why the Future Doesn't Need Us - Article on how technologies, including robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology, are threatening to make humans an endangered species.
Scenarios: The Red Herring Column - Contains several papers about various topics. Including Yucca Mountain, the uture of the economy, and broad band.
Philosophy of Technology - Several essays centered on how the world will cope with humanity's natural drive towards cultural and physical speciation.
The Collegiate Landscape of the Future - The universities of the future won't be built around the Internet; they will be built around small residential colleges.
The Sky is the Linit - A personal discussion of the most relevant and actual of the world's problems.
A Message From Future Generations - People of the future give advice on spiritual and political development. Dr. Allen Tough's book.
Future Studies: An Interdisciplinary Vehicle for Space Science Education - Essay on futures studies' use in the space science curriculum which includes example methods, suggested reading, and three futures course descriptions.
Introduction to Future Studies - A summary of methodologies for studying change and future. By Linda Groff and Paul Smoker, Global Options, California State University, USA.
NIC - Mapping the Global Future 2020 - A document based on consultations with non governmental experts around the world, with regional and global scenarios representing alternative futures. By the National Intelligence Council, US Government.
Principles of Forecasting - From the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA. Seeks to develop a set of principles to guide forecasting for problems in management, operations research, and the social sciences.
Which World -- Global Trends - Offers projections of population growth, economic growth, average incomes, environmental stresses, and other critical trends, providing a quantitative look at plausible future conditions, both globally and region by region. The material comes from the book "Which World?: Scenarios for the 21st Century" by Dr. Allen Hammond, World Resources Center, Washington D.C., USA, 2004.
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