Thursday, October 23, 2003
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Heebie gee-gees story by Bill McGuire asking about why we worry so much about human-induced problems and not about the giant waves from the canary, the supervolcanos, and other natural catastrophes.
Global Challenges updating from the Millennium project; summary socuments can be downloaded on the 15 challenges:
Global Challenges
1. How can sustainable development be achieved for all?
2. How can everyone have sufficient clean water without conflict?
3. How can population growth and resources be brought into balance?
4. How can genuine democracy emerge from authoritarian regimes?
5. How can policymaking be made more sensitive to global long-term perspectives?
6. How can the global convergence of information and communications technologies work for everyone?
7. How can ethical market economies be encouraged to help reduce the gap between rich and poor?
8. How can the threat of new and reemerging diseases and immune micro-organisms be reduced?
9. How can the capacity to decide be improved as the nature of work and institutions change?
10. How can shared values and new security strategies reduce ethnic conflicts, terrorism, and the use of weapons of mass destruction?
11. How can the changing status of women help improve the human condition?
12. How can transnational organized crime networks be stopped from becoming more powerful and sophisticated global enterprises?
13. How can growing energy demands be met safely and efficiently?
14. How can scientific and technological breakthroughs be accelerated to improve the human condition?
15. How can ethical considerations become more routinely incorporated into global decisions?
Global Challenges
1. How can sustainable development be achieved for all?
2. How can everyone have sufficient clean water without conflict?
3. How can population growth and resources be brought into balance?
4. How can genuine democracy emerge from authoritarian regimes?
5. How can policymaking be made more sensitive to global long-term perspectives?
6. How can the global convergence of information and communications technologies work for everyone?
7. How can ethical market economies be encouraged to help reduce the gap between rich and poor?
8. How can the threat of new and reemerging diseases and immune micro-organisms be reduced?
9. How can the capacity to decide be improved as the nature of work and institutions change?
10. How can shared values and new security strategies reduce ethnic conflicts, terrorism, and the use of weapons of mass destruction?
11. How can the changing status of women help improve the human condition?
12. How can transnational organized crime networks be stopped from becoming more powerful and sophisticated global enterprises?
13. How can growing energy demands be met safely and efficiently?
14. How can scientific and technological breakthroughs be accelerated to improve the human condition?
15. How can ethical considerations become more routinely incorporated into global decisions?
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
Oracle of IIF -
International Institute of Forescasting, various issues of newsletter online, with conference listings and some reviews.
International Institute of Forescasting, various issues of newsletter online, with conference listings and some reviews.
Thursday, October 16, 2003
Demos Greenhouse This is a blog by DEMOS, which refers to various iteresting publications as well as meetings and their own activities. Note that many of their opublicastions are now downloadable from their home pages
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
This is a website dealing with chronicles of innovations foretold. Technovelgy - where science meets fiction: science fiction novels, movies and writers Naturally very incomplete (eg no Blood Music for Greg Bear), focused on technology, and little effort to separate the wildly implausible (infinite imporbablity drive) [or is it??] from the near-enough here (e-paper). Excellent snippets from novels to illustrate invetions.
Friday, October 10, 2003
Spanish language publication list on futures at: 100cia.com encias_Sociales / Prospectiva / Publicaciones /
Thursday, October 09, 2003
Presentation on Ecological footprints (for SE England and Inverness)
and more on regional environmental accounting t: Joe Ravetz presnetation
and more on regional environmental accounting t: Joe Ravetz presnetation
Wednesday, October 08, 2003
BT's Technology Timeline this covers not only IT and telecomms, but also demographics, energy, etc.
