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- Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies - One of the oldest US futures research centers, affiliated with a graduate futures program: research activities, papers, course descriptions, alumni lists and links, and the Manoa Journal of Fried and Half Fried Ideas (about the Future) [12 volumes].
- Leadership, Ethics, and Command Central: Future Studies, Future Conflict Studies - On-line resources for integrating the tools of futures studies with conflict and defense studies for officer training: extensive links focused on the future of war, conflict, and military technology, as well as general futures methods.
- Limiting Urban Futures - An attack on the future-scenario style of urban planning. In urban futures scenarios, the range of "acceptable" future cities is made visible. The Amsterdam (Netherlands) study TVA is used as an example of how such studies limit urban futures.
- Chinese Views of Future Warfare - Collection of articles about doctrine of future types and causes of warfare, future threats of security environment, short-term future challenges for possible local war, and long-term future warfare from the point of view of several Chinese authors. Publisher: Institute for National Strategic Studies, US - National Defense University.
- The Mother's Service Society, Pondicherry, India - Social science research institute which has done extensive research in such areas as social development theory, economics, management, peace and governance, the future of money, the future role of the Internet, the future of science, the future World Army, and the Global Century.
- Alternative Futures Associates - AFA provides futures research services to business and industry. Using such methods as vision coaching, scenario development, environmental scanning and forecasting, and futures workshops, they provide futures studies on topics ranging from healthcare and pharmaceuticals, to finances, investment, and consumer products, to the natural and built environment, as well as emerging technologies such as nanotechnology. Case studies, staff biographies, and contact information is provided.
- New Bond Future Design - Description of a new bond future that would prevent squeezes and so allow a contract to better represent its underlyings.
- Investors Depot - Futures Education and Commodity trading information portal. Free futures quotes, futures charting, futures education center, online commodity trading and more.
- 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.
- All-Reviews.com: Back to the Future - Reviews of the movie.
Wikipedia Articles
- Future value - Future value measures the nominal future sum of money that a given sum of money is "worth" at a specified time in the future assuming a certain interest rate; this value does not include corrections for inflation or other factors that affect the true value of money in the future. This is used ...
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- Home of the future - The home of the future, similarly to the office of the future, is a concept that has been popular to explore since the early 20th century, or perhaps earlier. There have been many exhibits, such as at World's Fairs and theme parks, purporting to show how future homes will look and work, as well as standalone model "homes ...
- Images of the future - Images of the future are one of the main resources used in the field of Futures Studies, as a subject of analysis, as well as a site for the active development and pursuit of preferred future scenarios. For example, according to Jim Dator, a futurist and Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa: "one of the things futures studies tries to do is to help people examine and clarify their images of the future--their ideas, fears, hopes, beliefs, ...
- Alternate future - In science fiction stories involving time travel, an alternate future or alternative future is a possible future which never comes to pass, typically because someone travels back into the past and alters it so that the events of the alternate future cannot occur.