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On November 1, 2010, Dilma Rosseau was elected President of Brazil. The daughter of a Bulgarian immigrant, she was a revolutionary guerilla in the 1970's who was imprisoned for three years and tortured for 22 days with electric shock, but most importantly, today, she's a female leader, one of several political women selected recently to guide Latin American nations.

In a competitive job market with limited openings, futurists need to add value to what they do, beyond certificates.

Change can be made at different levels: individual, organizational and societal. On the one side, people resist change (“we have always done things this way, why shall we change it?”) but on the other side they embrace it (“I have moved into a new apartment”, “I got a new job”). How come?

Here are some recent future-related titles from the Center for Strategic International Studies, Yale, Georgetown Press and some other organizations that produce exceptional material for the futurist who insists on the best possible material. Happy reading.

WikiLeaks' data dump of diplomatic cables this week sparked a furious debate about transparency -- a key component of many idealized and vilified visions of the future.

To understand the city of the future, we must first understand the importance of proximity and the changing dynamic of our personal relationship with the physical community we find ourselves in.

I’m back from the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Music can express ideas and feelings both through the rhythms, melodies, and harmonies that evoke passions and through the words that distill complex thought into poetry.

Trying to understand how futures thinking works cannot be separated from trying to understand how a futurist applies his/her knowledge in futures works.

With 17.3 percent underemployment, the only thing shrinking faster than wallets are time horizons.