The World Is Not Flat In the opening plenary
session of the World Future Society's 2008 annual meeting,
Edie Weiner, president of Weiner, Edrich, Brown, Inc.,
takes on the
idea that "the world is flat".
Information Vs. Hate
Nate Garvis (VP, Target) describes the
impact of the Technology Effect on the rise of uncivil discourse and the
"outrage industry" as well as its more positive influence in creating
communities of disparate people around the globe. Excerpted from the
World Future Society's 2007 conference. Note, Mr. Garvis's comments were
made as an individual and not as a representative of Target.
Watch the Video on YouTube.
TOP TEN FORECASTS for 2008 and Beyond
Each
year since 1985, the editors of
THE FUTURIST
have selected the most thought-provoking ideas and forecasts
appearing in the magazine to go into our annual Outlook
report.Watch
the video on Youtube. Blind Insight - Nat Irvin II at
WorldFuture 2007
In this WFS exclusive, business professor Nat Irvin II (University of
Louisville) tells a personal story about his partial blindness and his
insights as a futurist at the World Future Society's 2007 conference.
Watch here. Irvin will chair the
Society's 2008 conference in
Washington, D.C.
Personalized Medicine: Gregory
Stock at WorldFuture2007: UCLA researcher Gregory Stock looks at
the future of genomics and the cures of tomorrow.
Watch here.
"Drugs or Love? Helen Fisher at
WorldFuture 2007":
Helen Fisher discusses the future of sex,
love, and relationships at the World Future Society's conference in
Minneapolis.
Watch now.
The Top Ten Forecasts from
Outlook 2007-- a short film by C. Wagner. Watch the video now on
YouTube.
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reports on topics that may have a major impact on our future.
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JANUARY 2009 FUTURIST UPDATE Decarbonizing
Energy...Workplace Trend Watcher’s Advice...Oceanic “Lab on a Chip”...Cracking Down on Scientific Fraud...Click of the Month: eHow...Editor's Query: Wild Cards.
The
Emergence of a Global Generation Maverick
pollster John Zogby explains why the new American Dream is better than the old one.
Book Review by Aaron Cohen.
THE
FUTURIST magazine's Top Ten Forecasts for 2009 and
Beyond.
Each year since
1985, the editors of
THE FUTURIST have
selected the most thought-provoking ideas and forecasts
appearing in the magazine to go into our annual Outlook
report. Over the years, Outlook has spotlighted the
emergence of such epochal developments as the Internet,
virtual reality, and the end of the Cold War. Here are
the editors' top 10 forecasts from
Outlook 2009.
December Futurist Update
Experimental drug builds muscle mass.... More
layoffs coming but health care and environmental
sciences likely to remain "recession-proof"... The
financial crisis could slow rapid development in
coastal areas and allow fragile ecosystems such as
barrier reefs to regain strength... Futurists report
from the recent London Futures Symposium, organized
by Stephen Aguilar-Millan of the European Futures
Observatory...news from the futurist community and
more in the
December edition of Futurist Update.
Will Technology Create a Wiser World?
Technology will transform
human life and force us to transform the way we think
and live says World Future Society Global Advisory
Council member William
Halal in a new book.
Read Rick Docksai's review in the November-December
issue of THE
FUTURIST.
November
Futurist Update A robust economic recovery is
forecast for 2011.... Energy gift cards could serve as a
hedge against inflation and be used for barter....
Prison inmates are serving as assistants in an
innovative environmental research program.... And a
futuring blogger offers a host of "top-of-my-head" ideas
for saving energy and water. Innovation and creativity
abound in the November 2008 edition of Futurist Update.
Read
these stories and more.
October Futurist Update
Researchers discover there are age-related differences
in how individuals view both the past and the
future...futurists launch a forecasting videogame... The
demand for cosmetic surgery products in the United
States is expected to swell by 8.4% per year over the
next four years...Experts devise new methods for picking
the next president, and for predicting the winner.
Read
these stories and more in the October issue of Futurist
Update.
Future
Survey Mini-Guide:
Futurist Methodologies The
latest issue of FUTURE SURVEY (August 2008) is a 40-page
mini-guide to nearly a hundred key books and reports
focusing on futures methodologies. "Many Methods and
Mentors: Thinking About Change and Shaping Futures,"
assembled by FS editor Michael Marien, is the fourth in
a series of mini-guides to significant futures subjects.
Order
yours today.
Troubled Times Ahead? The time for politics that only thinks as far as the next election must end soon, warns John L. Petersen, founder of the Arlington Institute, in Vision for 2012: Planning for Extraordinary Change.
September Futurist Update Measles
is making a comeback in the United States.... The U.S.
Air Force is testing synthetic alternative fuels for
fighter planes.... Researchers are developing video
games to help prevent dyslexia.... Future cell phones
may be able to transmit sign language.
Check
out these stories, new videos, and more in the
September edition of Futurist Update.
Michael
Marien, long-time
editor
of
Future
Survey,
received
a
distinguished
service
award
from
World
Future
Society
President
Tim Mack
during
the
closing
session
of WorldFuture
2008 in
Washington,
D.C.,
July 28.
Marien
served
as
editor
of the
Future
Survey
newsletter
since
1979. He
will
retire
by the
end of
2008.
55 Trends
Shaping Tomorrow's World The world's population will double within the next four
decades. Important medical advances will continue to appear
almost daily. The global economy is growing more integrated.
Future seniors will be healthier and wealthier. And water
shortages will plague much of the world. These are among the
55 key trends that will change our world over the next two
decades. Veteran forecaster Marvin J. Cetron has teamed with
science writer Owen Davies for the latest update of their
ongoing study four decades in the making. This special
publication of the World Future Society is excerpted in the
March-April and May-June 2008 issues of THE FUTURIST.
Speaker Maddy
Dychtwald, co-founder and executive vice president of Age Wave, describes how women with money are
changing the world in what she calls the Athena Effect.
Excerpted from her keynote presentation, Cycles: How We Will
Live, Work, and Buy, at the World Future Societys annual
meeting, WorldFuture 2008.
New Videos posted 10.08.2008 on YouTube.
Seeing
the Future through New Eyes By Cynthia G. Wagner, Aaron M. Cohen, and Rick Docksai They came, they saw, they learned something new. Futurists attending the
World Future Society’s 2008 conference took full advantage of the
opportunity to see the future through each other’s eyes.
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Measles
is making a comeback in the United States.... The U.S.
Air Force is testing synthetic alternative fuels for
fighter planes.... Researchers are developing video
games to help prevent dyslexia.... Future cell phones
may be able to transmit sign language.
The world's population will double within the next four
decades. Important medical advances will continue to appear
almost daily. The global economy is growing more integrated.
Future seniors will be healthier and wealthier. And water
shortages will plague much of the world. These are among the
55 key trends that will change our world over the next two
decades. Veteran forecaster Marvin J. Cetron has teamed with
science writer Owen Davies for the latest update of their
ongoing study four decades in the making. This special
publication of the World Future Society is excerpted in the
March-April and May-June 2008 issues of THE FUTURIST. 
