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The National Intelligence Council's 2025 Project - http://www.dni.gov/nic/NIC_home.html
The fourth unclassified report prepared by US National Intelligence Council (NIC) in recent years that takes a long-term view of the future. It offers a fresh look at how key global trends might develop over the next 15 years to influence world events. |
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Why the Future Doesn't Need Us - http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html
Article on how technologies, including robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology, are threatening to make humans an endangered species. |
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Principles of Forecasting - http://www.forecastingprinciples.com/
From the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA. Seeks to develop a set of principles to guide forecasting for problems in management, operations research, and the social sciences. |
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Scenarios and Strategy - http://www.gbn.com/ideas/scenarios.php
Contains several papers about the future of the economy. |
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The Collegiate Landscape of the Future - http://www.collegiateway.org/future/
The universities of the future won't be built around the Internet; they will be built around small residential colleges. |
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Innovation Watch - http://www.innovationwatch.com
Follows developments in science, technology, business, society and the environment and assesses their impact. |
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100 Phenomena - http://www.linturi.fi/100_phenomena/index.html
Complete English text from the Finnish book "100 Phenomena" by Risto Linturi and Ilkka Hannula containing miniature scenarios for the years 2000 to 2020 illustrating what may happen in our future and how it will feel. |
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The Sky is the Linit - http://jp.senescence.info/thoughts/transhumanism.html
A personal discussion of the most relevant and actual of the world's problems. |
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Carfree City Design - http://www.priorities.org/carfree.htm
Exploring the prospect of designing auto-less, sustainable communities with alternative transportation, renewable energy, pedestrian orientation, mixed-use zoning, fiber optics and recycling facilities in all units and other green features to aid in long-term quality of life survival. |
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ROBOT: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind, by Hans Moravec - http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/book98/
Additional figures and text for Moravec's book on the next six decades. |
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Future Studies: An Interdisciplinary Vehicle for Space Science Education - http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/nasa/future.htm
Essay on use of future studies in the space science curriculum which includes example methods, suggested reading, and three futures course descriptions. |
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Dr. Arthur B. Shostak - http://www.futureshaping.com/shostak/
Professor of Sociology, and futurist. Includes his essays and book reviews. |
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Social Fiction - S. Flor - http://www.social-fiction.de
Report from the year 2029: local markets have become an important complement to the established global economic system. |
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Future Studies - http://www.future-studies.com/
Essays on change, the future of humanity, and transhumanism, by Nick Bostrom; archival site, no longer updated. |
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Manifesto for the Peoples of the Third Millennium - http://m3peeps.org/manif.htm
An outline of processes for developing progressive alternative societies. |