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September-October 2006, Vol. 40, No. 5


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About This Issue
by Cindy Wagner Managing Editor

WFS at 40: Futuring and Its Future

The World Future Society celebrates its 40th anniversary on October 26.THE FUTURIST will officially turn 40 with the publication of our January-February 2007 issue, so we invite you to share with us your recollections and reflections of the magazine and the Society it serves. What has the World Future Society meant to you? Has it brought you new ideas for innovative products, businesses, solutions to global (or personal) problems, or a career change? And what thoughts do you have about the Society itself? How might it better serve you and your fellow explorers of the future? And what is (or should be) the future of our world and society? Please feel free to send us your thoughts at any time.

This issue of THE FUTURIST offers an excellent overview of what futurism does—or is supposed to do when it's done well:

  • Professional futurist Andy Hines offers a framework for the strategic-foresight process.
  • Futurists Medard Gabel and Jim Walker show how the unique, future-oriented perspective of "comprehensive thinker" Buckminster Fuller serves as a model for tomorrow's leaders hoping to apply that strategic-foresight process.
  • Consultant Karl Albrecht outlines the biggest trends that will affect business in the near future.
  • Microbiologists Tyler A. Kokjohn and Kimbal E. Cooper focus on a specific threat—a bird flu epidemic—that could affect not only our businesses but also our lives and even global stability.
  • Religious studies scholar Tom McFaul portrays another kind of globally disruptive threat—philosophical differences among the world's major religious groups. Through the futurist technique of scenarios, he shows how we may find a way to live together, and make the future better for us all, despite our differences.

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