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Remaking Education for a
New Century
Communications scholar Janna
Anderson is charting a new path for education outside of the classroom.
In this interview, she talks about the future of teaching, learning, and the
changing notion of "school."
The Singularity,
Explored
We talk to
Michael Vassar of the Singularity Institute about the upcoming
summit, the Singularity, and the technological breakthroughs of tomorrow.
Assessing Global Trends for 2025
In
November 2008, the National Intelligence Council released a landmark
study, Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World. The report lays
out the possibility of a future very different from the reality to which
most of the world is accustomed. THE
FUTURIST asked four experts — Newt Gingrich, Elaine C. Kamarck,
Peter Schiff, and Dennis Kucinich — for their views on
the report’s key forecasts and what the future of the United States,
Asia, and the global economy looks like now, in the wake of the global
financial crisis.
Stephen
Thaler’s Imagination Machines
Inventor
Stephen Thaler discusses his revolutionary form of AI — a highly proficient synthetic
consciousness that has quietly existed for more than 30 years.
Repairing
the World's Financial System
For globalization to endure, poor
nations must stop lending, start borrowing, an interview with
economist Martin Wolf.
Reinventing Morality
Discoveries in the fields of
neuroscience and evolutionary biology have the potential to achieve
something remarkable in this century: an entirely new, science-based
understanding of good and evil.
Q & A with Marc Hauser,
Science
Fiction Vs. Reality
The
Castaways:
In a series of interviews, researchers
discuss the future of ocean habitation.
And
Where's My
Flying Car:
We talk to Skycar car inventor
Paul
Moller
and designer
Donald
Norman.
The
21st Century Writer
Interviews with
Tim O'Reilly,
Publishing magnate and tech guru,
Stephen Abram,
past president of the Canadian Library Association,
Frank Daniels,
COO of Ingram's
Digital Group,
and
Douglas Rushkoff
author of Media Virus, and Innovation From the
Inside Out.
Germ Warfare Under the Microscope:
interview with Jeanne Guillemin,
author of Biological Weapons, on what governments should do to reduce
the worldwide threat of bioviolence.
The
AI Chasers
MIT roboticist Rodney Brooks,
Adaptive A.I. Inc. founder Peter Voss, Self-Aware Systems founder Steve
Omohundro, Powerset CEO Barney Pell, and Google research director Peter
Norvig discuss how they see AI developing in the years ahead.
A
special supplement to the March-April issue of THE FUTURIST.

Retiring
Retirement
Life-cycle expert Maddy Dychtwald, who will be
attending
WorldFuture 2008, says that planning for life past 65 is more important
now than ever before.
Fighting the Cult of
the Amateur:
A Web 2.0 Critic Takes on the Confederacy of E-Dunces
Web entrepreneur
Andrew Keen argues
that the user-driven
content frenzy of the Internet, in which anonymous posters can say virtually
anything they want, has led to increased incivility in Web-based discourse
as well as critically compromised the reliability of Web-based information.
Report
from the Luxury Frontier
There are more
billionaires and more millionaires inhabiting the globe than ever before in
human history. And with economic growth accelerating in places like China and
Russia, it's a safe bet that luxury marketers have a bright future. To find
out what's on the minds of the world's wealthy, and what, besides big bucks,
they might have in common,
we went to Larry Bean, editor-in-chief of
Robb Report magazine, which covers the luxury lifestyle like no one else.

Whither,
Western Civilization?
Is
Western civilization bound for collapse? In the
November-December
issue of THE FUTURIST, we broach the issue with celebrated editor and
historian Lewis Lapham.
Imperial
Parallels
The
military and economic power of the United States has invited comparisons
between America and the ancient Roman Empire. What, if anything, can the
United States learn from Rome's decline? For answers we turned to
Cullen
Murphy, Vanity Fair editor at large and author of the recent
book Are We Rome?
The Fall of an Empire and the
Fate of America.
Part of the
November-December 2007 issue of THE FUTURIST magazine.
Ending
the Oil Era
Reliance on oil is a major environmental
concern among industrialized nations, particularly the United States,
which uses and imports more oil than any other country. Oil dependency
is emerging as a major national security issue as well. As part of our
July-August issue, THE FUTURIST
presents this interview
with Former CIA Director
James Woolsey on ending the oil era.
Learning
to Look Up
One of cosmology's leading stars is astrophysicist and author
Neil
deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. Tyson was
recently appointed to serve on the nine-member commission on the Implementation of the
U.S. Space Exploration Policy (the "Moon, Mars, and Beyond" commission). In his
teaching, public lectures, and popular writings, Tyson inspires the world with ideas about
the universe.
 Germinal
Choice Technology: Our Evolutionary Future
Like human cloning, technologies giving us control over our genetic destiny will be
developed, whether they are banned or not.
Gregory Stock, author of
Redesigning Humans and director of the Program on Medicine, Technology, and Society at the
University of California, Los Angeles, explains what these new technologies are, how they
may be used to prevent disease and extend our lifespans, and how they may
alter our social institutions.
See exclusive video of Stock's
presentation at WorldFuture 2007.
A
New Look at Utopias
WorldView 2002 conference chairman
Arthur B. Shostak, a sociology professor at
Drexel University, has taught several courses on utopian dreams and dystopian nightmares.
Based on his 40 years of teaching experience, plus contributions from 34 fellow scholars
and 10 students, he has just published a compilation of source materials and sample course
outlines for college use. Utopian Thinking in Sociology: Creating the Good Society
(American Sociological Association, 2001).
Anti-Terrorism
Should be a Top Priority for National Security
Just days before the September 11, 2001, apparent terrorist attack on the United States,
including the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the World Future Society spoke with
futurist author and speaker
Marvin Cetron on the global threat of terrorism.
Creative
Hothouses
Barton Kunstler, a professor and program director at the Leslie
University School of Management, reflects on the lessons that organizations can learn from
history's most successful "creative hothouses," such as ancient Greece,
Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan England, and Parisian cafe society.
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