Futuring

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’.

This will happen again, so remember this name “APF Virtual Gathering.”
APF (Association of Professional Futurists) started talking about an event of this type several years ago, but the technology just wasn’t up to the task. Now it is. The software was Adobe Contact, and there were a few glitches —I was (electronically) kicked off the call about four minutes before my presentation, but got back online in time. Jim Dator wasn’t as lucky, he was never able to connect. But the event worked. Much better than most of the webinars I’ve been involved with. All in all, it was a great event.
But I guess I haven’t really told you much about it so here goes, because you will want to remember this.

Enjoy forecasting? Seeking a community you can discuss predictions with? Enjoy arguing, en masse, about the course of humanity? Welcome to Facebook.

“We are winning more than we are losing”, emphasized co-founder and Director, Jerome Glenn at the 2011 State of the Future Conference. The State of the Future is an annual report state by the Millennium Project, which is “an independent non-profit global participatory futures research think tank of futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers.”

Thirty years ago today, I started work at the World Future Society. My title was to be "editorial assistant," and my starting salary was six figures--counting both sides of the decimal point. It was a recession, and I'd just finished my master's work at Syracuse in magazine journalism. I was happy to be employed, and happy to be back home in Bethesda.

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?

Back from Round House Theater's production of Ray Bradbury's futuristic classic, Fahrenheit 451, with special multimedia effects that really do make that future feel now.

Garland's Law of Foresight Journalism is a well-researched theory that guides the actions of magazine and newspaper editors, as well as television producers, regarding their decisions to report on future studies, forecasts, scenarios or predictions of any sort.

The law shows the following phenomena in the media ecosystem: