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Blogs
If Great Corporations Could Lead: How to Unite Left and Right and Save the World
What if our great corporations could direct their enormous capabilities to solving the global mess we have all created – financial crises, depressed economies, political gridlock, climate change, and endless conflict?
Bioinspired Material Made from Shrimp Shells and Silk
Originally posted at The Trend and Foresight Blog.
This article in the Harvard Gazette focuses on "shrilk" -- a new material made from discarded shrimp shells and the proteins found in silk. It's another great example of a trend we call Biomimicry in Design.
Consumer Trends and Values…Shifting
I found some time this past weekend to read more of ConsumerShift, the new book from Andy Hines, who is a lecturer at University of Houston's Graduate Program in Futures Studies, one of Innovaro's network partners, and someone I've had the pleasure to work with a lot over the years.
A Chemical-Free Future for Farming: THE FUTURIST Interviews Tomas Brückmann
As the world’s farmers strive to produce more food, they rely on ever-increasing quantities of pesticides—which includes products to kill weeds, insects, and any other organisms that might threaten crops. Environmental groups warn that the extra food comes at a heavy cost, however, of severe harms to the health of farmers, consumers, and ecosystems everywhere.
The Future(s) & Religion(s
When I moved to Hawaii six years ago to pursue a Master's degree in Religion at the University of Hawaii, I did not expect to earn a PhD in Futures Studies. To be honest, I had no idea that one could even pursue such a course of study and become a futurist.
2 Billion Jobs to Disappear by 2030
Yesterday I was honored to be one of the featured speakers at the TEDxReset Conference in Istanbul, Turkey where I predicted that over 2 billion jobs will disappear by 2030. Since my 18-minute talk was about the rapidly shifting nature of colleges and higher education, I didn’t have time to explain how and why so many jobs would be going away. Because of all of the questions I received afterwards, I will do that here.
The Future of Futures Studies
Today, the increasing number of futurists, scholars, business planners, and others in the futuring field is a good sign of the usefulness of Futures Studies for humanity, just as Dator wished so 26 years ago (Dator, 1986).
An Age of Uncertainties
About the March-April 2012 issue of THE FUTURIST
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With a burgeoning economy that may no longer be providing good jobs, and a growing demand for energy sources that are clean, affordable, and safe, the future’s many challenges elude easy solutions—at least, solutions that we might all agree on and that don’t create new problems.