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WorldFuture 2012 is an opportunity for all the attendants to discuss one of the long-awaited questions that should be addressed in the field: the problem of professionalism. Can we really dream, design, develop, and deliver a credible code of professionalism for futurists and foresight practitioners? It seems we can.

A scan of the headlines over the last few days point to a couple interesting food trends: the growth of the super-premium juice business and the emergence of medical foods. originally posted at the Trend and Foresight Blog.

There is a lot of chatter in the news from the neo-cornucopians about how "wait, resource scarcity was merely a false alarm, there's more than enough resources to keep growth going for years - like lots of new oil!" When you read the fine print, it turns out that the "new oil reserves" make very little mention of how much oil is going to flow each day, at what cost, and to replace what level of lost capacity in critical places such as Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and the U.S.

A speech made by ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson at the Council on Foreign Relations last month has been attracting greater and greater attention as its implications sink in.

In 2003 the DaVinci Institute produced a landmark event called “The Future of Money Summit” which took place at the Omni Hotel in Broomfield, CO. One of the featured speakers was Bernard Lietaer, chief architect of the Euro. At the closing session for the event Lietaer introduced his plan for creating a global currency, a digital currency called the Terra

The World Future Society has a theme for this year’s conference in Toronto:
DREAM, DESIGN, DEVELOP and DELIVER.
A very appropriate theme for futurists. So I’m going to jump right to the point, Deliver. Because that’s what I’ve been working on for several months. So here’s the headline:
Es TU Futuro and O SENIN Gelecegin.

In 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed into law the famous Emancipation Proclamation, an executive order that granted some freedom to slaves. But true freedom was still a century away for those who lived in the black vs. white world leading up to the Civil Rights movement, an effort that began in earnest in the 1950s.

Mann's account of the attack is available here.

Given the dot.bomb, the New Economy crash, the outsourcing outrage, the digirati dump, the facebook fiasco, the various iCrap scandals it seems high time for the digi-hippies and liber-techians and other assorted Ayn Raelian types to rethink, revise, redo some of the assumptions and aspirations that lead so many of them to embrace so ecstatically not so very long ago John Perry Barlow's breathl

In 2004 when Chris Anderson released “The Long Tail,” the world was suddenly awakened to the potential for niche markets that appeal to an increasingly diverse consumer marketplace.