World Future Review articles are available to WFS Professional Members as PDF files. To get a list of the files available from each issue, click that issue's link in the list below:
Geothermal Energy by Gioietta Kuo
Will Natural Gas Replace Oil? by Gioietta Kuo
No Limits to Growth by Tsvi Bisk
Homeland Security in America by Roger L. Kemp
The Scientific Method After Next by David E. Stein
Synthetic Parameters, Infinite Variables: The Future by Robert G. Wood and Vince Berardini
Can the Future be Discovered? by Henry Lowe
New and Forthcoming Books prepared by Michael Marien
Recent Futures-Related Writing Abstracts of Books, Articles, Blogs, and Reports Concerning Forecasts, Trends, and Ideas about the Future
Revolt of the Global Middle Class by Mathew Maavak
Establishing a New Information Paradigm by Dail DeWitt Doucette
Will Psychological Disorders Afflict Uploaded Personalities? by Bruce Tonn
Nuclear Energy After Fukushima by Gioietta Kuo
Occupy Booklists! Best Futures-Relevant Current Affairs Books of 2011 by Michael Marien
Wishful Thinking: A Serious Risk Factor in Planning and Strategy? by Jacques Richardson
Featured Futurists interviews with Tim Mack, Paul Gilding, and Alain Braillon
New and Forthcoming Books by Michael Marien
Extreme Asymmetric Warfare of the Future by Barton Kunstler
Michio Kaku’s Religion of Physics by George Michael
Energy in 2030 and Conservation by Gioietta Kuo
Taming Global Governance Idea Chaos by Michael Marien
Planning for a College’s Future by Chuck McIntyre
Germany’s Approaching Pension Disaster by Martin R. Textor
On Foresight, Prospective, and the Affairs of Nations by Michel Godet and Timothy Mack
Featured Futurists: Interviews with Michael Brown, José Luis Cordeiro, and Steve Brouwer
Doctors as an Army for Peace? a book review by Rick Docksai
New and Forthcoming Books prepared by Michael Marien
Abstracts of Recent Futures-Related Writing
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A Banquet of Consequences: Living in the “Nobody-Could-Have-Predicted” Era by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Development Strategy by Design: The Future of Strategy by James Carlopio
The Turn: A Response to Arthur C. Clarke Award by Freeman Dyson
The Deadly Cocktail: Nationalism, Populism, and Inequality by Joergen Oerstroem Moeller
Watson: Pathfinder for Global Business? by Tim Mack
Six Worlds of Tomorrow: Representing the Future to Popular Culture by Alan Clardy
Sustainable Development and Long-Term Strategic Management by Zhouying Jin and Ying Bai
Featured Futurists: Interviews with James Spotila, Peter Lewis, and Seang-Tae Kim
The Missions of the United States Air Force in the Twenty-Second Century by Julian M. Chesnutt
Calm Technologies: A New Trend for Educational Technologies by Alexandru Tugui
The OECD Gold Mine at 50: The Major (but Scarcely- Known) Source for “What Works”
Modeling Alternative Futures with General Morphological Analysis by Tom Ritchey
IMPACT 2020: Predictions for the Next 10 Years of the Design Industry … And What to Do About It by Frank A. Stasiowski
What if We Loved the Poor? by Eric Meade
Humans and Machines: A New World Order? Michael Marien reviews The Techno-Human Condition
Traveling through the Solar System on a Budget an interview with Edgar Choueiri
Searching for the Ghost in the Machine an interview with Wendell Wallach
New and Forthcoming Books prepared by Michael Marien
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The End of the World and Architecture by Michael A. Richards
After Copenhagen: Scenarios for the Future of Climate Change by Morgan Draper Kauffman
Affordable Health Care: Uninsured Young Adults by Barbara Parker
The Continuing Shock of the Future Dennis R. Morgan reviews The Biggest Wake Up Call in History
New and Forthcoming Books prepared by Michael Marien
Recent Futures-Related Writing abstracts of books, articles, blogs, and reports concerning forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future
Evaluating “Overshoot and Collapse” Futures by Richard A. Slaughter
Ethnographic Futures Research: The Future of Jesuit Higher Education in the United States by Melissa Lowdon, PhD
Competitive Intelligence: Significance in Higher Education by Susan E. Barrett, MLA, MSEd, EdD
Robots in the Year 2025: Toward a Better Quality of Life by Kazuo Mizuta
China Is Changing Everything! A book review by Michael Marien
Featured Futurist: Are Doctors Becoming Obsolete? An interview with physician executive Kevin M. Fickenscher
New and Forthcoming Books prepared by Michael Marien
Recent Futures-Related Writing Abstracts of Books, Articles, Blogs, and Reports Concerning Forecasts, Trends, and Ideas about the Future
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The Evolution of Integral Futures by Terry Collins and Andy Hines
Appropriate Economics for the 21st Century (Introduction by Michael Marien)
WFS Student Essay Winners (Introduction)
Recent Futures-Related Writing Abstracts of Books, Articles, Blogs, and Reports Concerning Forecasts, Trends, and Ideas about the Future
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Memes in Foresight: Response to The Black Swan by Timothy C. Mack
About the Philosophy for Future Thinking by Anvar Idiatullin, PhD
Futures Studies in Iran: The Past and the Future by Alireza Hejazi
Long Waves of Decentralization in Public Management: A Case Study of Finnish Public Health Care by Minna Kaarakainen, PhD; Sari Rissanen, PhD; Juha Kinnunen, PhD
Better Scanning and Beyond: Old Ideas and New by Michael Marien
The Past and Future Arctic Ken Harris reviews The Future History of the Arctic
Merging With the Machines: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law of Exponential Growth Part 2 of an interview with Ray Kurzweil
Recent Futures-Related Writing abstracts of books, articles, blogs, and reports concerning forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future
A limited number of copies of World Future Review (Vol. 2, No. 2, April-May 2010) are available for just $25 including postage. Order your copy today!
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How Scenarios Interconnect Strategy, Innovation, and Early Warning Processes by Dr. Ing. Alexander Fink, Dr. Ing. Andreas Siebe, and Jens-Peter Kuhle
Paper Spaces: Visualizing the Future by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
A Systemic Framework for Sustaining Technology Integration In Educational Settings by Pi-Sui Hsu and Priya Sharma
The Curse of Prosperity a review of the book How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth by Hervé Kempf
Merging with the Machines: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law of Exponential Growth an interview with Ray Kurzweil
Recent Futures-Related Writing abstracts of books, articles, blogs, and reports concerning forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future
A limited number of copies of World Future Review (Vol. 2, No. 1, February-March 2010) are available for just $25 including postage. Order your copy today!
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Demographic and Economic Trends by Bruce Tonn and Jean Peretz
Ethnographic Futures Research of Democracy in Ukraine: Insights from Youth Activists by Vitaliy Shyyan, PhD
Cyborg Learning Theory: Technology in Education and the Blurring of Boundaries by Dallas McPheeters
Beyond the Insurgence A book review by Rick Docksai
A former deputy to the EU’s special representative in Afghanistan offers advice for peace seekers in Reconciliation in Afghanistan.
What’s Ailing Environmental Journalism
An interview with Howard Ernst, professor of political science at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and author of Fight for the Bay: Why a Dark Green Environmental Awakening is Needed to Save the Chesapeake Bay.
Recent Futures-Related Writing
Abstracts of books, articles, blogs, and reports concerning forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future.
A limited number of copies of World Future Review (Volume 1, Number 6, December-January 2010) are available for just $25 including postage. Order your printed copy today.
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How Accurate Are Your Forecasts? More Accurate than You Might Think by Andy Hines
Does Future Thinking Need a Philosophy? by Stephen M. Millett and David J. Staley
Vitality at the Edges: Ecotones and Boundaries in Ecological and Social Systems by Pearl Seidman
Global Megacrisis Survey: Four Scenarios on a Pessimism/Optimism Axis by William E. Halal and Michael Marien
Civilization Does Not Have to Fall a review of the book Plan B 4.0, by Lester Brown
A Blueprint for Saving Civilization: Putting Plan B into Action an interview with author and ecologist Lester R. Brown
Future Survey abstracts of books, articles, blogs, and reports concerning forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future
A limited number of copies of World Future Review (Vol. 1, No. 5, October-November 2009) are available for just $25 including postage. Order your copy today!
What You'll Find in the August-September 2009 Issue:
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Trend Analysis as Pattern Recognition by Stephen M. Millett
A Systems View of the Cultural Personality: A Mimetic Approach to a Better Future by Kazuo Mizuta
Into the Future: A Glimpse of Medical Technology by Samantha Palmer
In Pursuit of Perfection by Jenna Leigh Chiemi Kagimoto
Trends in the Global and American Economy by Maya Chandrasekaran
Young Futurists Interviews with two of the three winners of the WFS high school essay contest.
The Promises and Perils of Online Marketing a review of the book e-Riches 2.0: Next-Generation Marketing Strategies for Making Millions Online.
Future Survey abstracts of books, articles, blogs, and reports concerning forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future
A limited number of copies of World Future Review (Vol. 1, No. 4, August-September 2009) are available for just $25 including postage. Order your copy today!
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Future Brains: An Exploration of Human Evolution in the 21st Century and Beyond by Arthur Saniotis
Where Has the Energy Picture Gone Wrong? Under Pressure Society Explores Forlorn Directions Such as Biofuels, Windmill Farms, and Hybrid Cars by Theodore Modis
E-learning and Online Education: Implications for the Future of Law Enforcement Training by Jim Leal
Better Ways to Aid In Dead Aid, World Bank consultant Dambisa Moyo argues that the West’s aid policies do the developing world more harm than good.
Finding New Resources in an Economic Downturn An interview with Ed Gordon, author of Winning the Global Talent Showdown.
Letter to the Editor: A Dialogue between William E. Halal and Michael Marien
Future Survey Abstracts of books, articles, blogs, and reports concerning forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future.
A limited number of copies of World Future Review (Vol. 1, No. 3, June-July 2009) are available for just $25 including postage. Order your copy today!
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Futures Thinking and Macro-Systems by Michael Marien
WORLDSHIFT! Creating a Quantum Leap in the Global Brain: To Shift or Not to Shift — Why That Is NOT the Question by Ervin Laszlo
Worldshift: What Are the Questions? by Michael Marien
The Emerging Inner Solar System Economy by Richard Sylvan, Narayanan M. Komerath, Kirk Woellert, Mark Homnick, and Joseph E. Palaia IV
Future Systems Engineering and the Role of Complexity by Shah Selbe
Creating Conditions for a Lasting Peace A review of Hamas in Politics: Democracy, Religion, Violence.
Separating Foresight Wheat from Foresight Chaff An interview with Future Savvy author Adam Gordon.
Future Survey Abstracts of books, articles, blogs, and reports concerning forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future
A limited number of copies of World Future Review (Vol. 1, No. 2, April-May 2009) are available for just $25 including postage. Order your copy today!
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Towards a Future Global Science: Axioms for Modeling a Living Universe by Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D.
Ensuring Strategic Direction: Using Principles-Based Strategy and Scenarios Together by Robert E. Neilson
Ethnography in Robotics: Communications, Design, and Innovation in the Robotics for Theater Project by Gerardo del Cerro Santamaria
The Future Evolution of the Ecology of Mind by Tom Lombardo, Ph.D.
A Field Guide to the Net Generation a review of the book Grown Up Digital
Featured Futurist: The Global Internet Generation Comes of Age an interview with Don Tapscott, author of Grown Up Digital
Future Survey abstracts of books, articles, blogs, and reports concerning forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future
A limited number of copies of the inaugural issue of World Future Review (Vol. 1, No. 1, February-March 2009) are available for just $25 including postage. Order your copy today!