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Our formal education system was designed to meet the needs of the Industrial Revolution. This system is not meeting the needs of a globalized, hyper-connected society that continues to evolve.

Welcome to the Futures Learning Section home page. The Futures Learning Section is an emerging group committed to all forms of futures learning from traditional academic learning at all levels to profit and non-profit organizational futures training and beyond.

Explores how life may look in the future as information technology changes our world. Several archived entries can be found here.

offers ideas and proposals resolving the complex issues facing the world today and in the near-term future. We welcome your participation.

Includes essays on "preferred futuring" and on the relationship between utopian thinking and the study of the future. Several archived entries can be found here

We're looking for stories about how the study of the future, membership in the Society, or participation at a conference made a difference. In short, why are you here, thinking about the future? Why does the future matter? Tell us either a personal story or an anecdote out of the history of futuring that inspired you to take a deeper and more active interest in the future — a story to help others see the future with new eyes.

An offering of fresh ideas and innovative approaches to the challenges we all face in the twenty-first century. Read two archived postings here