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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
- Futures industry association - The Futures Industry Association (FIA) is a trade association in the United States composed of futures commission merchants. A futures commission merchant is analogous to a broker; they are entities that accept orders and payment for commodity futures for execution on a futures exchange.
- Michelob Ultra Futures Players Championship - The Michelob ULTRA FUTURES Players Championship is an event on the FUTURES Tour, the LPGA's developmental tour. The event, formerly known as the Michelob ULTRA FUTURES Charity Golf Classic, has been a part of the FUTURES Tour's schedule since 1985.
- Taiwan Futures Exchange - Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) was established in 1998, it offers futures and options on major Taiwan stock indices, government bond futures, equity options and 30-day CP interest rate futures.
- National Futures Association - The National Futures Association (NFA) is an independent self-regulatory organization and watchdog of the commodities and futures industry in the United States. The National Futures Association, known in short as the NFA, oversees and protects investors from fraudulent commodities and futures activities.
- Grain Futures Act - The Grain Futures Act (ch. 369, , ), is a United States federal law enacted September 21, 1922 involving the regulation of trading in certain commodity futures, and causing the establishment of the Grain Futures Administration, a predecessor organization to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.