Essays Future Society

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• - Provides forecasts of scientific and social developments; tracks cutting edge technology like nanotechnology and genetics; offers insight into changes in near future lifestyles.
  
• - People of the future give advice on spiritual and political development. Excerpts from Dr. Allen Tough's book of the same title.
  
• - Progressive side-effects of military, political, legal, religious, agricultural, economic and industrial processes attempting to appropriate a technology that may be far too sophisticated and powerful.
  
• - Article on how technologies, including robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech, are threatening to make humans an endangered species.
  
• - A collection of discussions and articles focused on culture, systems thinking and how to create a more sustainable future.
  
• - Articles related to decision makers lag and its economic and cultural consequnces.
  
• - Reflections Of A Changing Era, The American Dream, by Jim Bickford.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Topics include world population, stem cell research, limits of science, climate change, and anthrax. Includes links to other resources.
  
• - Report from the year 2029: local markets have become an important complement to the established global economic system.
  
• - The universities of the future won't be built around the Internet; they will be built around small residential colleges.
  
• - Additional figures and text for Moravec's book on the next six decades.
  
• - Follows developments in science, technology, business, society and the environment and assesses their impact.
  
• - A personal discussion of the most relevant and actual of the world's problems.
  
• - 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-
  
• - Essay on futures studies' use in the space science curriculum which includes example methods, suggested reading, and three futures course descriptions.
  
• - Essays on change, the future of humanity, and transhumanism, by Nick Bostrom; archival site, no longer updated.
  
• - Professor of Sociology, and futurist. Includes his essays and book reviews.
  
• - Wide-ranging essays on our potential to create planet-sized Matrioshka Brains millions of times more intelligent than today's humans.
  
• - Contains several papers about various topics. Including Yucca Mountain, the uture of the economy, and broad band.
  
• - An outline of processes for developing progressive alternative societies.
  
• - Suggests key changes that lead to an acceptable future. Offers articles and forum.
  
• - Compendium of research papers, scientific studies and learned opinions regarding issues that will have profound affect upon our children.
  
• - Several essays centered on how the world will cope with humanity's natural drive towards cultural and physical speciation.
  
• - Research method and a predictive model for dealing with the unknown.
  
• - A prediction about the nature of the impending Republic of Australia.