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The Futurist

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  • Fate of the Galaxy
  • Reinventing the Music Business
    • The Dymaxion Dream Reincarnate
  • Books: Stewart Brand’s Environmental Heresies
  • Collecting Wisdom about the Future
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  • Murderous Economics
  • Networked Learning
  • Retirement Crisis for Hispanic Americans Smarter Trash

    • World Future Review

    Become a professional member of the World Future Society to receive World Future Review: A Journal of Strategic Foresight.

    Future Survey abstracts of books, articles, blogs, and reports concerning forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future. Now part of World Future Review

    Forum

    An international discussion forum for people interested in creating and improving the future.

    Futures Learning

    Futures Learning is an emerging group committed to all forms of futures learning from traditional academic learning at all levels to profit and non-profit organizational futures training and beyond.

    The Future In Brief

    Futurist Update News and previews from the World Future Society Books of Interest A blog of new, future-related books

    		Feeds Short glimpses of the cutting edge RSS feeds we're following.

    Futurist Interviews

    Assessing Global Trends for 2025 THE FUTURIST asked Newt Gingrich, Elaine C. Kamarck, Peter Schiff, and Dennis Kucinich for their views on the future of the U.S.

    The Future of the Book

    Tim O'Reilly talks to us about the future of the Book, of writing, of publishing, and the Internet.

    Tomorrow's Workforce

    John Challenger discusses the major labor trends playing out in the current recession and how immigration, globalization, outsourcing, and other trends affecting employment and the workplace will evolve over the next five, 10, and 20 years. (May 1, 2009).

    Forecasting Tools

    The Dictionary of Foresight: A list of the terms used in exploring the future, as seen in Futuring: Explorations of the Future.

    Methods: An introduction to common techniques for anticipating, forecasting, and assessing future events from a rational, empirical perspective.

    Futuring The seminal book by WFS Founder Edward Cornish on the practice of foresight.