tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56043012011-12-03T05:32:40.634-08:00This blog provides a link to plenty of futures-related material that doesnt go into the Foresight and the Technological Innovation blogs - see Ian Miles Blogs at http://milesblogs.blogspot.com for details and news.Ian Mileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10735847477342688319noreply@blogger.comBlogger2311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604301.post-42209185780788487622011-12-03T05:32:00.000-08:002011-12-03T05:32:40.641-08:00

AT MIT-Sloan    The Next Technological Revolution: Predicting the Technical Future and its Impact on Firms, Organizations and Ourselves. A paper prepared for the MIT Sloan School’s 50th Anniversary Celebrations Ellen Brockley, Amber Cai, Rebecca Henderson, Emanuele Picciola and Jimmy Zhang "we draw on current MIT research to look forward: to explore how technology is likely to develop in the next

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Towards Green Growth Reports Launch of the Green Growth Strategy  The four reports below were published on 25 May during a public session of the 2011 OECD Ministerial Council Meeting. Towards Green Growth provides a practical framework for governments in developed and developing countries to boost economic growth and protect the environment. Tools for Delivering on Green Growth outlines

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Foundation For the Future http://www.futurefoundation.org/ Alerted by an email that the "Foundation For the Future has selected Dr. Charles A. Murray as the 2011 winner of the Kistler Prize. Dr. Murray, noted political scientist and author, is the W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and is best known for his book The Bell Curve (1994), ..." and

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Future Workplaces: Workplaces of the Future – How are they Studied? A Literature Study of Foresight and Delphi Methods ❚❚ Susanna Toivanen PhD, Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm University/Karolinska Institute, Sweden "Working life conditions have changed dramatically during the last few decades with a comprehensive impact on how daily work is organised in the workplace (Marklund &

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‘In Pursuit of the Future’ This is a three-year research project under the UK Economic and Social Research Council’s Professorial Fellowship Scheme. While there is some mismatch with my own views and recollections, there is lots of good material here. To quote: "::Creating Futures Societies are developing and investing in technological and scientific innovations that have ever longer-term

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Classic Technology forecasting study - very rich, very influential - from 1937. National Resources Committee report Technological Trends and National Policy available as pdf or KIndle (among others)  at  http://www.archive.org/details/technologicaltre1937unitrich 

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matthewbuckland.com » Future Trendsgood on social networking!

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Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation - Articles - Section III: Third-Party Tools and Capacity Buildinghuge number of resources on conflict issues, and here are some relevant to futures studies:Ron Kraybill - Facilitation Skills for Interpersonal Transformation (pdf) Describes the most important skills and tools facilitators need in order to enhance capacities at the individual and

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RESEARCH - Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities * The world in 2025 – Rising Asia and socio-ecological transition (816KB PDF icon) Brussels, 2009, EUR 23921 EN, ISBN 978-92-79-12485-3, ISSN 1018-5593, DOI 10.2777/2539, 28 pages Recent developments in the world and the strong European commitment to a regulating globalisation argue in favour of a forward looking analysis. “The World

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BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Climate migration fears 'misplaced'"There is a real risk that alarmism will divert attention from real problems, resulting in policies that fail to protect the most vulnerable people.""Policymakers must radically alter their views of migration, and see it as a vital adaptation to climate change rather than as an unwanted consequence or a failure to adapt.

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JISC infoNet - What is Scenario Planning?also on this website, look for Superstruct - the world's first massively multiplayer forecasting game.  "You can help chronicle the world of 2019 by playing the game between October 6 and November 17, 2008. After that time the outputs will remain online as an immersive forecast of 2019."

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BBC's Tomorrow's World archive now online : Tech Digestor go straight to http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/tomorrowsworld/to establish exactly bwhat willn happen in 10 years time(talking to computers in morse, for example)

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BBC - Mark Easton's UK: Perfect Storm 2030: Public attitudes...(graphics have got lost)From the BBC's Perfect Storm 2030 coverage,where correspondents explore the forecast by UK chief scientist JohnBeddington, of a "perfect storm" of food, water and energy shortages in2030.Ed Miliband says he is in "the persuasion business". So how do youpersuade people when research suggests that many of them

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Geoengineering the climate: science, governance and uncertaintyGeoengineering the climate: science, governance and uncertaintyThe Royal Society has published the findings of a major study into geoengineering the climate. The study, chaired by Professor John Shepherd FRS, was researched and written over a period of twelve months by twelve leading academics representing science, economics, law and

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Google Image Result for http://autogeny.org/ltg1.pngI was recently talking about the SPRU critique - THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE OR MODELS OF DOOM DEPENDING ON THE SIDE OF THE aTLANTIC YOU WERE PUBLISHING IN .  I came upon this...

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TVE's Earth Report: archives

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2025: Scenarios of US and Global Society Reshaped By Science and Technology

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Libro de Prospectiva y EstrategiaLibro de Prospectiva y Estrategia de los profesores Javier Medina y Edgar Ortegón. Excelente manual que nos permitirá un acercamiento a la prospectiva y a la estrategia.

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EPO scenarios  DownloadIn the course of a two-year project, the EPO interviewedaround 150 key players - including critics - from the fields of science,business, politics, ethics, economics and law, seeking their opinions on howintellectual property and patenting might evolve over the next fifteen totwenty years. Four scenarios - relevant and plausible stories about the future - weredeveloped in a

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Articles by Sohail Inayatullah

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UK Parliament - POST publications - science policy332 - Futures and Foresight PDF DocumentFour page POSTnote, May 2009In 2007, the Commons Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) suggested that Parliament strengthen its capacity to think ahead and engage with outside experts and the wider public. This POSTnote examines the key characteristics of futures work and its current use by

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Hudson Institute > Herman KahnLots of Kahn material including a PDF image of y2000.  Though there is MUCH to disagree with, he was a towering figure.

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EPO scenarios Download In the course of a two-year project, the EPO interviewed around 150 key players - including critics - from the fields of science, business, politics, ethics, economics and law, seeking their opinions on how intellectual property and patenting might evolve over the next fifteen to twenty years. Four scenarios - relevant and plausible stories about the future - were

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OUTSIGHTSfuture of identity management case studies select clients futures library 21 drivers for the 21st century™ By looking at the broader future challenges in society and the future

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ASF (Acceleration Studies Foundation) There is a radio prog on future developments at http://accelerating.org/presentations/JohnSmartWBAI3May2009.mp3 and a report on the future of the the web: Metaverse Roadmap (MVR): Pathways to the 3D Web. ... an extensive 10-year technology forecast and 20-year visioning survey of virtual and 3D Web

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Looking back on looking forward: a review of evaluative scenario literature — EEAFrom the Executive Summary:"...the shortage of research on scenario planning and its influence means that there is limited guidance on how to optimise scenarios, in terms of both outputs and uptake by policy-makers.This technical report addresses this lack of information, presenting a review of relevant academic and

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Waverley Management Consultants - Examples of Workthree scenarios developed for the Scottish Parliament's Futures Forum report on ageing: Growing Older and Wiser Together. The scenarios - which were developed through desk research rather than a workshop programme - can be downloaded from the Forum's website here.

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Young seniors will shape societyYoung seniors will shape society From Members' Report 4/2008: The young seniors 2020 Aging is one of the most striking megatrends changing our society. The number of 60+ year-olds will increase greatly between now and the year 2020. The 60 to 80-year-old cohort will increase most, in percentage and absolute terms. Af Anders Bjerre, Klaus Æ. Mogensen, Niels

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Challenge Network scenarios since 1996Challenge Network scenarios since 1996 - lots of material here, many pages and much detail"Early scenarios were generated at the Royal Institute for International Affairs, Chatham House, where they were produced by a public-private sector consortium called the Chatham House Forum. The 'for profit' arm of this was and is the Challenge Network, but the Chatham

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Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVAWhat is the world like in the year 2020? What will the international playing fields look like – the fields on which Finland and Finnish corporations will play in the future? EVA has created four scenarios for the year 2020. In the scenario ”Comeback of the West” the world order functions under the leadership especially of the United States and Europe, but not

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OCAD - Academic Programs - Graduate Studies - MDes in Strategic Foresight and InnovationThe Master of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation integrates knowledge and methodology from a number of disciplines: design, business, science and technology, and the social sciences. Design provides the crucial link between these areas, drawing on its essential competencies of design thinking,

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Technology Futures, Inc.: Publications: TFI White Papers, Articles, and Complimentary Reports Practical Tips for Forecasting New Technology Adoption [PDF] Lawrence K. Vanston, Ph.D. The pattern by which new technology is adopted is reasonably well-understood and, assuming there is data, there are mathematical models and methods to help forecast. However, many of the most strategic

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House of Commons - Public Administration Committee- Second Report - Governing the Future(for government response, see end of this note)Terms of Reference Summary 1 Introduction 2 The machinery of future thinking Background The Labour Administration: Modernising Government The Prime Minister's Strategy Unit Further sources of strategic advice to the Prime Minister Reviews and

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http://nextbigfuture.com/has lots of interesting stories on mainly techie futures issues!

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a thousand tomorrowsFutures, design, and related

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a thousand tomorrows » Blog Archive » interview: Elina Hiltunen - weak signals & future signs"I have based my model of the future sign - which describeschange more holistically than only focusing on signals of it - on hisconcept of a three dimensional sign (see Futures, 2007). Applying Peirce’s model of a sign to the future sign it has three dimensions: signal, issue and interpretation. In the

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Mind Tools - Management Training, Career Training and Leadership Training - Right Here, Right Now.includes creativity tools, innovation tools, project management, stakeholder analysis, scenarios etc etc.

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Low Carbon Living 2022 | Forum For The Future

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University Futures - Analytical Methodswebsite closing soon - includes futures toolkit!

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UNU-CRIS Working PapersOnline papers in PDF thouugh I have had trouble downloading!Working Papers Series on Comparative Regional Integration Studies includes......Cultural Diversity and Regional Trade Agreements: The Case of Audiovisual ServicesThe difficult relationship between the two global public goods of cultural plurality andinternational economic integration is often analysed at world

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Destacados OsilacECLA/CEPAL has a great deal of documentation on its ELAC Information Society programme, and OSILAC framework for measuring and monitoring ICT development - English language versions are generally available (click a language choice at the top irght of the frame)on this page are, for instance:Compendiumof Practices on the implementation of ICT questions in household andbusiness

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stumbled upon while looking for a good image:http://gawker.com/search/future/eg Important Questions About The Future Of Domestic Servitude Yes, and the Sith will do all the yardwork. 6:15 PM on Tue May 24 2005, by Jessica, 42 views

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WRONG PREDICTIONS at WHAT’S NEXT: INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPERShere's an original idea - why not put some of these into a powerpoint? maybe to start off a talk on futures? here are some to start off with...

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Special Online Collection: Forests in FluxFrom SCIENCE: Special Online Collection: Forests in Flux... examines the future of the world's forests against a backdrop of climate change and intensifying human activity. In Science, News reports take a look at how humans have reshaped wooded landscapes across the globe; a Review explains how forests influence climate through physical, chemical, and

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Defra, UK - Horizon Scanning Outputs from lessons learned review now uploaded!In 2006, the Horizon Scanning and Futures programme entered a year-long period of review and consolidation and commissioned Sparknow, a pioneer in the use of narrative techniques to capture knowledge, to help it review the work thus far and draw out the lessons to belearned.Through a series of events, interviews,

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Publications / Results on use of IT for transformative purposes across Europe

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The Academy of Medical Sciences | Current projects

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HSC Toolkit - Other sources and toolkits

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The Phoenix Project: Roster of Participants"This project grew out of some discussions among a group of writers, activists, film makers, and others, all of whom are deeply concerned about the state of the world, and the prognosis for the future. The problems are obvious enough, but the movement toward useful solutions seems far, far below what is needed. Everywhere people are applying

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A Retrospective Forecast of the Future or why IT is still important

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ELAC is the CEPAL programme on Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean. This page supplies many publications including some in English like Characteristics of households with ICTs in Latin America and the CaribbeanDecember 2007... más informaciónInformationSociety and public ICT policies in the Caribbean: a review of advancesand challenges, policy instruments and country

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Family Worksheetfutures tools for individual life planning

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Annotated Scenarios Bibliography -fund while looking for RAND and BLOSSOM

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Environment Research Funders' Forum: Horizon Scanning Project Board meeting's agendas and minutesHorizon Scanning Project Board - some papers here too. But better still go toThe environment – scanning for uncertainty The Environment Research Funders' Forum has produced an analysis of issues affecting the environment which might impact on the UK's interests over the next 20 years.

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Horizonscan 'Horizon Scan Report 2007, Towards a Future Oriented Policy and Knowledge Agenda'- report for Dutch Sector Councils now available

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Guide to scenariosdownloadable from http://www.infra.kth.se/fms/pdf/ScenarioRapportVer1_1b.pdf website of Environmental Strategies Research - fms which "is mainly engaged in comprehensive future studies and in development of analytical tools for sustainable development. The research focus is on

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“Regional Key Competencies” "The website describes an approach a region could take to embrace forward thinking and adaptation. It provides a “magic box” of tools and methods to anticipate future challenges and structural changes, and to give regions better options to deal with these challenges and changes in a structured and strategic way."Ian says: a Magic Box!!! Sounds a bit too

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Scenario Planning Toolkitfrom the DfT website, not from www.foresight.gov.uk !This says that: "Although the toolkit is based on the IIS scenarios all the workshop material can be used with any set of scenarios." Download PDF To help clarify some of the long term issues and to provide a context to support

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Scientific Technology Options Assessment - STOA (STOA 23) 01/2008 Interactions between new technologies and the job market, flexicurity and training/vocational training ... (STOA 182) 06/2007 RFID and identity management in everyday life...(STOA 181) 04/2007 The role of nanotechnology in chemical substitution...(STOA 179) 02/2007 Alternative technology options for road and air transport...(STOA

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Course: SOFI Tutorial An Introduction to Creating a Country SOFIvideos, slides

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

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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)

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Punk'd! Latest edition of Z_punkt The Foresight Company: FUTURE NEWS 01/2008with links to CORPORATE FORESIGHT: THIS IS HOW YOU DO FUTURE Therole of Corporate Foresight in the business environment is changing.Klaus Burmeister and Andreas Neef analyse what Foresight was, is, andwill be in their essay "This Is How You Do Future. Corporate Foresightand

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Zurich - UK - Overviewchange in UK at beginning of this century...Powered by ScribeFire.

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The Tomorrow Project: The Tomorrow Projectlots of futures resources. Even some ESRC support!Powered by ScribeFire.

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Ten Years Later: "This is a transcript of the Tenth Anniversary 9/11 LectureSunday, September 11, 2011John F. Kennedy School of GovernmentCambridge, MassachusettsProfessor Roger McBride essay from Atlantic Monthly in 2005

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IPR Scenarios for the futureThe Europpean Patent Office's two-year project, based on interviews with "around 150 key players - including critics - from the fields of science,business, politics, ethics, economics and law, seeking their opinions on howintellectual property and patenting might evolve over the next fifteen totwenty years. Four scenarios - relevant and plausible stories about the

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Forward Looks: European Science Foundationviews of future for various areas of science, plus excellent overview of futures work here by van der Meulen (Looking beyond the endless frontier"

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Futurelab - Projects - Innovations Workshops "The Futurelab Innovations Workshops bring together experts from research, design and practice to investigate how new technologies can impact upon learning in 5, 10 and 15 years' time..."Links include papers/workshop  reports (or both) on :Future musicFuture TVFuture phonesPDAsYoung people & healthEmotion technologyVisual display technologyon

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GLIMPSES of tomorrow: GLIMPSES of tomorrow"GLIMPSES provides a 'map' of recent trends to help people answer three questions: Where have we come from? Where are we going? What do we need to think about? Topics are grouped under the following headings: Globalisation Life course Individuals, identity and values Media and technology Politics and government Social exclusion Employment Sustainability

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Putting people first » ScenariosThis is what a futures blog should be like, with helpful descriptions, illustrations, and other things to make it like a newsletter. Focus here is on user-centred innovations (widely defined).

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Foundation for the Future - Publications ... proceedings ... transcripts of Foundation seminars, symposia, and workshops, as well as books, newsletters, and other print and media materials on the future of humanity. Humanity 3000 Seminar: “Humanity and the Biosphere: The Next Thousand Years” (8.7 MB PDF) Sept. 20–22, 2006 Seminar: “

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Terra-2000 Project on sustainable Information Society/Knowledge Economy.  Develops variety of scenarios (globalisation +  or -) and discusses alternative futures methodologies.somewhere there should also be terra-2002 - unfortunately this is a common phrase, and the links that google specified on this site are "no longer available".Powered by ScribeFire.

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Potomac Institute - Out of the Box: "Out of the Box and Into the Future: A National Security ForecastA Dialogue Between Warfighters and Scientists on Far-Future Warfare (2025)"'nuff said - tempted to say more though. Prepared before 9/11 and very high-tech.

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Wikia FutureA Wiki on futures issues and futurology (unashamed use of the term!) which seems to be much indebted to Yunzhong_Hou - thanks!"WELCOME to the FUTURE,where advancements and changes in biology, electronics, engineering, and society result in many different futuristic scenarios that synergize into scenario-books. At the Future Wikia, you will find a vast database of ideas pertaining to

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Allianz - Allianz Lecturesmainly on future of Europe, covering everything from multiculturalism and linguistics to climate change. Forthcoming is Ulrich Beck (risk society)

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Event Searchat http://www.manchesterinternationalfestival.com/festival-events/event-search.aspx?from=&to=&genre=0&keyword=futuresis the Futures strand of the Manchester Festival 2007. Includes talks on the future of journalism, the body and the planet, as well as FutureSonic.

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tremendous amount of material (if unhelpfully requiring click after click to access):Project, programme and change management toolkit "... helps local authorities and other public sector organisations establish a culture of strong project and programme management skills. Such a culture increases an organisation's overall capacity to deliver change. Information includes guidance, case studies

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Home Research Contact us Press News Publications Framtider English Edition Global Mobility Regimes About the Institute for Futures Studies Staff Archive Institute for Futures StudiesBox 591, SE-101 31 Stockholm, SwedenVisiting address:Drottninggatan 33.Phone: +46 (0

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Great Transition Initiative - hopeful global scenarios of Earth's futureThis is the scenarios page. Good people associated with this project, in which activities cluster into three broad areas: Scenario Development, Outreach and Dissemination, and Building the Network. The Scenario Development activity is described thus "GTI Paper Series. These essays focus on

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Sigma Scana collection of future issues and trends developed by the Outsights-Ipsos MORI partnership, commissioned by the UK Government's Horizon Scanning Centre at the DTI Office of Science and Innovation. A database of trends, emerging issues and developments which may influence the course of events over the next 50 years and thereby shape the future of the UK and the world at large. Covers

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Welcome to rafaelpopper.info along with lots of Foresight material, Rafael provides intros to various futures methods and plenty more...

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ISIS - Institut Stratégie et Innovation dans les Services French-language site: research on services innovation - not many things to download yet.

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Social Futures Observatory Academic scholarship & research with commercial relevance - interesting report on social lending...

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Stern Review Index pageThe Stern Review of the costs of climate change (and allieviating it). Environmentalists speak: few listen. Environmentalists speak to economists; economists speak; many listen. We hope. (Many also critique, but not in a very interesting way yet)

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BBC - Book of the Future - Homepagearticles from public (and Douglas Adams)on future developments. Lots of fun, some provocations.

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Eco Region NWinteractive system for exploring eco-futures for NW England. some useful links too.

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Putting people first » Foresight another interesting blog on futures issues (Not just Foresight)

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The Institute for the Future of the Mindone of the James Martin centres.

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Guardian Unlimited | Big Brother takes a controlling interest in chips: "At the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) conference, held in Washington, DC, last month, Vernor Vinge, a retired computer scientist and the author of Rainbows End, provided a compelling explanation of how developing technology and powerful interests could create a society far more invasive and controlled than anything

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First questionnaire about issues for the year 2010 -open until 15 of June - GroupMind Expressthis is the ECLA delphi concerning Information Society in Latin America. Some resemblance to FISTERA!

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Nick Bostrom's home pageThe transhumanist at work and play.

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Overmorgen - a futures blogOvermorgen has just stopped adding new blogs, just as I discover it. Wortha trawl through the archives - lots of good links here. Trends organised by STEEP categories (Wot no V??)

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Overmorgen

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Scenarios for 2030: working papersTwo scenarios and lots of background documentation and provocation.

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Project Censored Media democracy in actionMore on inequality as a critical trend. This was discussed a great deal in futures studies of the 1970s - while the long postwar boom was still evident - and its interesting how hard it is to bubble up now.

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OTA Publications If you havent got the CDROM, here are the accumulated works of the Office of Technology Assessment in electronic format. Though data may be out of date, the approaches are often worth examining and lerarning from.

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Summit for the Future on Risk Conference on the Future of Risk - streams on innovation and risk.

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chaos theorytutorials and other useful material on chaos, comlexity, catastrophe theory and applications

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Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change - Cambridge University PressThis is the book to ask your libraries for!

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