Learning and Education

Here are some recent future-related titles from the Center for Strategic International Studies, Yale, Georgetown Press and some other organizations that produce exceptional material for the futurist who insists on the best possible material. Happy reading.

Trying to understand how futures thinking works cannot be separated from trying to understand how a futurist applies his/her knowledge in futures works.

A large, diverse audience packed Washington, D.C.’s Sidney Harman Hall this past Friday for the independently organized TED event TEDx MidAtlantic. “TED” stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and over the decades, that focus has broadened to include pretty much every imaginable field.

Researchers have recently looked at how time travel is represented psychologically in the sensorimotor systems that regulate human movement. Technically we may not have a means for moving through time (yet), but when we think of the past or the future, our brains engage in a sort of mental time travel. It turns out our perceptions of space and time are tightly coupled.

Many of the exact generational boundaries describing the 30-and-under population have been poorly defined, and terms are oftentimes used interchangeably. For example, terms like “Millennial” sometimes are used to describe portions of what is considered “Generation Y”. For the purpose of this blog, I am focusing solely on the under-18 population.

What follows is a sneak preview of Global Foresight Books (GFB). The GFB project was initiated in late 2009 by Michael Marien, founder and editor of Future Survey .