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How to Become a Disciplined Futurist
Anyone interested in becoming a futurist can’t afford to miss these seven tipping points. In addition to the essential need of learning futures methods, theory, frameworks and philosophy, a futurist needs to be a disciplined guy in his profession.
Are We Future Conscious Enough?
There is a great need for fundamental change in our state of awareness and the way we feel reality, especially in terms of ‘futures consciousness’.
Futurists’ Professional Ethics
Futurists may be regarded ethical as far as their conducts are in conformity with the standards of professional moralities, but how do they define their professional ethics and to what extent do they remain really faithful to those ethics?
Metalogue: The Future of Collective Thinking
If we consider "thinking" as a cognitive process dealing with awareness, attention and process of factual, emotive and conative types of information, then we may characterize "collective thinking" (CT) as an interrelated cognitive process of such functions occurring among several individuals.
New Frameworks for New Theories
Developing frameworks for new theories in Futures Studies (FS) has been a field of interest among futurists. They make different efforts in finding new ways to deal with this interest.
Masters' Insights
"Masters' Insights" provides a theoretical basis for the students of Futures Studies and Strategic Foresight to grab common issues in the Futures field in a structured and constructive manner.
Futures Terms Concept Map
Organizing my thoughts about the futures, I did a little concepts exercise. The exercise helped me identify what I think is most important in Futures Studies (FS): Developing my mental model of FS; or a futurist’s futures thinking, or strategic foresight diagramed as an organizational function. Now, the output is a concept map that can be downloaded for free.
Top 10 Attributes of FS Students
Becoming a student of Futures Studies (FS) is a challenging endeavor that should be navigated not only by the academic leaders and professors, but also personally by the students.
New Possibilities with Chronesthesia
The neuropsychologists are studying the ability of remembering the past, present, and imagining the future, i.e. “Chronesthesia”. Their tangible results may affect our decisions in life, yet there are questions over practical aspects of Chronesthesia.
The Third Lesson
The recent massive earthquake accompanied by a devastating tsunami and, worse, by the explosion of nuclear reactors endangered the lives of many Japanese. It proved once again that the future is not in control. It is as uncertain as before.
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THE FUTURIST Magazine Releases Its Top 10 Forecasts for 2013 and Beyond (With Video)
Each year since 1985, the editors of THE FUTURIST have selected the most thought-provoking ideas and forecasts appearing in the magazine to go into our annual Outlook report. The forecasts are meant as conversation starters, not absolute predictions about the future. We hope that this report--covering developments in business and economics, demography, energy, the environment, health and medicine, resources, society and values, and technology--inspires you to tackle the challenges, and seize the opportunities, of the coming decade. Here are our top ten.
Why the Future Will Almost Certainly Be Better than the Present
Five hundred years ago there was no telephone. No telegraph, for that matter. There was only a postal system that took weeks to deliver a letter. Communication was only possible in any fluent manner between people living in the same neighborhood. And neighborhoods were smaller, too. There were no cars allowing us to travel great distances in the blink of an eye. So the world was a bunch of disjointed groups of individuals who evolved pretty much oblivious to what happened around them.
Headlines at 21st Century Tech for January 11, 2013
Welcome to our second weekly headlines for 2013. This week's stories include:
- A Science Rendezvous to Inspire the Next Generation
- Next Steps for the Mars One Project
- Feeding the Planet Would Be Easier if We Didn't Waste Half of What We Produce
Where is the future?
Like the road you can see ahead of you as you drive on a journey, I suggest the future is embedded in emerging, continuous space-time. Although you’re not there yet, you can see the road in front of you. In the rear-view mirror stretches the landscape of the past, the world you have been through and still remember.
Transparency 2013: Good and bad news about banking, guns, freedom and all that
“Bank secrecy is essentially eroding before our eyes,” says a recent NPR article. ”I think the combination of the fear factor that has kicked in for not only Americans with money offshore, countries that don’t want to be on the wrong side of this issue and the legislative weight of FATCA means that within three to five years it will be exceptionally difficult for any American to hide money in any financial institution.”
The Internet of Things and Smartphones are Breaking the Internet
I have written several articles on network communications on this blog site as well as on other sites, describing its e
BiFi, Biology, Engineering and Artifical Life
BiFi is to biology as WiFi is to computers. It's a technology being pioneered by researchers at Stanford University and other institutions, looking at bioengineering techniques for creating complex biological communities working together to accomplish specific tasks. In a sense every organ and every system of coordinated activity within our bodies runs as a BiFi network.