All World Future Society members receive:
The Futurist. This lively, bi-monthly
magazine brings you a wealth of forecasts and new ideas about the future. Each issue
covers the gamut of important trends that are shaping your future--technology, social
change, values, environment, economics, lifestyles, and much more. Feature articles and
news items are clearly written to help you make sense of the juggernaut of changes
affecting your family, your job, your community--your future!
Outlook. An annual report offering members selected
forecasts that can help them anticipate events of the future.
Conferences. The Society organizes
one major conference each year plus occasional smaller meetings. Both large and small
conferences provide members with opportunities for face-to-face meetings with
distinguished scholars, leaders, and experts from around the world. Meetings held in
Toronto, Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington, and elsewhere have drawn thousands of
participants to discuss a wide range of questions and hear proposals for solutions to the
problems the world faces. Members receive special notices about upcoming conferences, as
well as discounts on registration costs.
Special New-Member Benefits. In addition to regular
member benefits, new World Future Society members will receive four FREE reports on trends
shaping our world and how to think about them. New members also receive "The Art of
Foresight," an eight-page guide on how to study the future, and Futurist Update,
a monthly e-mail newsletter.
Dues for regular membership are $59 per year.
Subscription to The Futurist Magazine
Subscriptions to The Futurist magazine are available for libraries and other institutions and for individuals who choose not to be members of the Society. Dues are $69 per year.
Student Membership
All full-time students under the age of 25
are now eligible to receive full regular membership benefits for just $20 per year.
Parents, grandparents, teachers, counselors, and other adults are also encouraged to
enroll young futurists at the student rate.
Professional
Membership
The Professional Membership program was established by the
World Future Society to meet the special needs of Society members who are professionally
involved in futures-related activities. Its purpose includes:
- Strengthening the capabilities of these members so they can
more effectively carry out their professional responsibilities.
- Providing opportunities for individuals involved in futures
studies to share ideas as a group.
- Identifying people actively engaged in the field so they can
be made known to business, government agencies, and educational institutions seeking
professional assistance.
Professional Membership is a special program for members who
are involved in futures research, forecasting, corporate or institutional planning, issues
management, technology assessment, policy analysis, urban and regional planning, and
related areas. Professional Members include educators, government and business leaders,
researchers, think-tank members, corporate planners, and others involved in the study of
the future.
Each year, Professional Members' Forums are held to bring
together those actively working on future-oriented research or projects. These forums
feature some of the top thinkers in futures studies, presented in a small-group setting
that allows for plenty of interaction. Attendance is limited to Professional Members.
Recent forums have been held in Toronto,
Chicago, Washington, San
Francisco, Philadelphia, and Minneapolis.
All Professional Members of the World Future Society receive:
- A subscription to
World Future Review
, the Society's professional journal. An international editorial board
referees all articles for this unique publication, which covers a wide range of
futures-relevant subjects.
- Invitations to Professional Members' Forums.
- All benefits of regular membership in the World Future
Society, including a subscription to The Futurist, the Society's bimonthly magazine
on the future; discounts on books and other products; and the Society's yearly
"Outlook" report of selected forecasts from The Futurist, and
Futurist
Update a monthly e-mail newsletter.
Dues for Professional Membership are $275 per year.
$185 for members from academic and nonprofit organizations.
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Life Membership
The World Future Society's Life Membership program allows
individual members to make a one-time dues payment of $950, and thereafter receive all
privileges of regular membership in the Society without paying annual dues. A life
membership will express your personal confidence in the future. Your special support of
the World Future Society will also help to build a better future for everyone. As a life
member you will avoid future increases in annual dues, whether caused by inflation or by
improved membership benefits. You will also help the Society to establish a working
capital fund to improve its programs.
Dues for a regular life membership are $950.
For a life professional membership, the cost is $2,950.
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Institutional Membership
The World Future Society's Institutional
Membership program helps business firms, educational institutions,
government agencies, associations, and other groups to participate in the Society's
activities to a greater extent than would be possible with an individual membership alone.
It is a program for organizations that would like to stay current with future-oriented
literature and maintain a source for special information and contacts in the futures
field.
Equally important, institutional members, through their dues,
support the work of the World Future Society and thereby contribute to a reasoned
awareness of the future and the importance of its study. Institutional members play a
crucial role in making sure that the Society can continue to support futurism and the
study of the future.
Institutional Members receive:
- Publications. A complete set of Society publications,
including The Futurist and World Future Review, as
well as all books, monographs, conference proceedings, special reports, and other
publications of the Society during the year of the membership.
- Invitations. Your organization will receive invitations
to all Society meetings and conferences, including Professional Members' Forums and other
special activities.
- Discounts. Special discounts on bulk purchases of
Society publications are available for institutional members. These discounts offer
significant savings on materials that are important to your organization.
- Contacts. Institutional membership will help your
organization to establish valuable contacts with other professionals and organizations.
The Society also provides help to institutional members in locating sources of
information, consultants, and speakers for conferences and meetings, getting information
tailored specifically to the organization's needs.
- Recognition. Inclusion in the Society's list of
institutional members published on the Society's Web site and annually in
The Futurist will show your
organization's support for futures research.
Dues for Institutional Members are $600 per year for businesses.
And $385 per year for nonprofit organizations.
