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NIC - Mapping the Global Future 2020 - http://www.cia.gov/nic/NIC_globaltrend2020.html
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. |
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Principles of Forecasting - http://www.forecastingprinciples.com/
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. |
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Why the Future Doesn't Need Us - http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html
Article on how technologies, including robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology, are threatening to make humans an endangered species. |
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The Collegiate Landscape of the Future - http://www.collegiateway.org/future/
The universities of the future won't be built around the Internet; they will be built around small residential colleges. |
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Innovation Watch - http://www.innovationwatch.com
Follows developments in science, technology, business, society and the environment and assesses their impact. |
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News for a Synergic Earth - http://www.synearth.net
A collection of discussions and articles focused on culture, systems thinking and how to create a more sustainable future. |
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Introduction to Future Studies - http://www.csudh.edu/global_options/IntroFS.HTML#FSMethodols
A summary of methodologies for studying change and future. By Linda Groff and Paul Smoker, Global Options, California State University, USA. |
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ROBOT: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind, by Hans Moravec - http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/book98/
Additional figures and text for Moravec's book on the next six decades. |
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100 Phenomena - http://www.linturi.fi/100_phenomena/index.html
Complete English text from the Finnish book "100 Phenomena" by Risto Linturi and Ilkka Hannula containing miniature scenarios for the years 2000 to 2020 illustrating what may happen in our future and how it will feel. |
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Dr. Arthur B. Shostak - http://www.futureshaping.com/shostak/
Professor of Sociology, and futurist. Includes his essays and book reviews. |
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Carfree City Design - http://www.priorities.org/carfree.htm
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. |
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Future Studies - http://www.future-studies.com/
Essays on change, the future of humanity, and transhumanism, by Nick Bostrom; archival site, no longer updated. |
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A Message From Future Generations - http://ieti.org/tough/articles/fg.htm
People of the future give advice on spiritual and political development. Dr. Allen Tough's book. |
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Reflections Of A Changing Era - http://www.usdreams.com/ReflecChanging49.html
Reflections Of A Changing Era, The American Dream, by Jim Bickford. |
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The Sky is the Linit - http://jp.senescence.info/thoughts/transhumanism.html
A personal discussion of the most relevant and actual of the world's problems. |