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FutureTV UDATED 2.22.08
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.
Attn: Teachers and instructors:
WMV or MOV Quicktime versions available for presentations upon
request.
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Check out what's new in Future Survey,
a selection of user-friendly abstracts of new books, articles, and
reports on topics that may have a major impact on our future.
WFS: Leaders
Wanted!
WFS is looking for
members with passion and some experience
to help us expand programs, projects and its Global
Impact.
Life-cycle expert and
WorldFuture 2008 speaker Maddy
Dychtwald says that planning for life past 65 is more
important now than ever before. In March,
we asked her what increasing longevity will mean for the
future of retirement.
Gerald E.
Allan, president of
Criteria Architects Inc., is a
WorldFuture 2008 keynote speaker. Here, he discusses his upcoming
presentation: Five Great Ideas and Five Great
Challenges the World Needs to Address.
"The
very characteristics that early humans evolved in order to survive in a
harsh, dangerous, and competitive environment are now working against us in
the complex technological and interdependent environment we have created,”
says Allan. We asked him how we might move from competition to
sustainability.
From
THE FUTURIST magazine.
INTERVIEW: Tim O'Reilly As the publisher of
an extremely popular series of computer manuals,
Tim O’Reilly has
been dubbed the “guru of the participation
age” by Steven Levy in a 2005 Wired profile and a
“graying hippie” with a “hostility toward traditional media” by author
Andrew Keen. O'Reilly will forever be known as the guy who coined Web
2.0. At his recent
Tools of
Change Conference in New York, we asked O'Reilly about the future of the
Book, of writing, of publishing, and the Internet.
This article by late WFS member
Harlan Cleveland
ran in the September-October 2002 issue of THE FUTURIST.
Among his many accomplishments, Cleveland was a journalist, an assistant
secretary of state, a NATO ambassador, and a university president. He died
on May 30th 2008 at his home near Washington D.C. at the age of 90.
June
Futurist Update Engineers
hold annual robot-soccer competition... a new report from
the Urban Institute offers help for improving that
jail-to-community transition... The extreme, hypersaline
ecosystem of the Great Salt Lake is being turned into a
biology and chemistry laboratory, Keck grant recipients
split $1 million in research money to focus on improving
human health and life-span, with research topics ranging
from the comparative cellular biology of aging to the use of
robotics in diagnostics.
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.
May Futurist
Update
Nanotechnology is churning out new consumer products at a
rate of three or four a week... Bacteria may eventually
prove to be Earth's greatest evolutionary success story...
Solar energy technologies need about a decade more of
research and development investment to become an
economically competitive alternative to petroleum... and
Americans with low income and education levels spend more
time online when they do have access to the Internet.. Read
these and other stories in the
May issue of
Futurist Update.
Future TV:
Updated 4.21.08 A special
conference invitation from FUTURIST managing Editor Cindy
Wagner...
WorldFuture 2008 Conference Chair
Nat Irvin II
discusseshis first WFS conference and what to look
forward to at this year's event.
April Futurist Update Nanotech will be a
"critical driver" of future growth in manufacturing. The
economic costs of hurricanes have been doubling every 10 to
15 years in the United States. The U.S. State Department
warns of an upsurge in anti-Semitism. And astronomers have
found salt on Mars and methane beyond our solar system.
Read
these stories and more in the April edition of Futurist
Update.
VIEW HIGHLIGHTS of the
2007 conference, including photo gallery, speaker presentations, conference
volume summaries, and
more:
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committed to all forms of futures learning from traditional academic learning at
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As the publisher of
an extremely popular series of computer manuals,
This article by late WFS member
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. 
