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Friday, February 22, 2008

Engineering's Grand Challenges  



Grand Challenges for Engineering
The NAE Committee on Engineering's Grand Challenges has identified 14 areas awaiting engineering solutions in the 21st century.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Visions and Pathways for a Hopeful future 



Great Transition Initiative - scenarios of the global future
GTI's scholars and activists develop global scenarios for a transition to a world of enriched lives, human solidarity and a healthy planet.

(I should have blogged this before, but new documents are arriving)

Friday, February 08, 2008

Z Punkt 

Punk'd! Latest edition of

Z_punkt The Foresight Company: FUTURE NEWS 01/2008

with links to

CORPORATE FORESIGHT: THIS IS HOW YOU DO FUTURE


The
role of Corporate Foresight in the business environment is changing.
Klaus Burmeister and Andreas Neef analyse what Foresight was, is, and
will be in their essay "This Is How You Do Future. Corporate Foresight
and Entrepreneurial Spirit". They consider Foresight and
entrepreneurial spirit to be inseparable. "We offer businesses to work
together for the future in a way not focused on safeguards, but rather
with the intend to boldly re-design the world", the authors say.

The article is available for download here.





At
the beginning of each year, trends and forecasts are in high demand. We
have looked for and collected statements on the development of this
still young year 2008 we consider worth reading.



Economist: Future of Futurology

The
Economist
satirises all shades of trend and future research, from Toffler to
Popcorn and Naisbitt. Its conclusion? "Uncertainty looks smarter than
ever before."



Guardian: The Shape of Things to Come

The Guardian
presents an entertaining and highly readable selection of predictions
for 2008, coming from (English-speaking) Foresight practitioners.



Gartner: IT Predictions

In his report "Predictions 2008", Gartner offers some dozen forecasts for the IT sector.



Peter Pesti: Roadmap for the 21st Century

In his roadmap for the 21st century, Peter Pesti,
a computer scientist, aggregates statements of renowned think tanks on
future events. Since the beginning of 2007, the roadmap is maintained
and updated regularly.



Creative Generalist: Creative Holidays

The Creative Generalist
blog collected the best "Idea Gatherings" for the present year:
interdisciplinary conferences which aim to stimulate new thinking and
innovation.






Corporate Foresight in SMEs

In
the European Foresight Monitoring Networks (EFMN) Foresight Brief No.
101, Klaus Burmeister and Kai Jannek present the Z_punkt survey
"Corporate Foresight in SMEs". Download
here.



2nd Rethinking Business Conference

Materials
and manufacturing processes in transition – this was the issue
discussed by speakers and visitors at the conference "Rethinking
Business #02. Products of Tomorrow". Conference impressions and
pictures from the Fab Lab can be accessed here.



"IT in 2057"

Cornelia Daheim,
Director Foresight Consulting at Z_punkt, contributed to a series of
short films “IT in 2057” of the British Computer Society (BCS). The
filmlets look forward in time to the next 50 years and the role of IT
in shaping 2057. Read more.



On March 7 and 8, 2008, the opening conference of the series Millennia 2015
will be held in Liège (Walloon). Topic: The future of women and how to
master international challenges. Z_punkt’s Vanessa Watkins will be
among those giving a speech.




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