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What Our Future Might Look Like If We Don't Trash The Planet

There are any number of awful predictions about what the world will look like in the future. Jamais Cascio has visions of a future where humanity not only survives, but thrives.READ»

Earth Day, 2020

On the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, let's take a moment to think about the 50th anniversary.READ»

Futures Thinking: A Bibliography

So you want to be a futurist? Better be ready to do a lot of reading.READ»

World Water Day 2010: Three Projects That Are Changing the Future

In the developing world, a billion people go without clean water. Across the developed world, storms and failing infrastructure threaten to contaminate water supplies. Is there any hope to be found?READ»

World Water Day

In the developing world, a billion people go without clean water. Across the developed world, storms and failing infrastructure threaten to contaminate water supplies. Is there any hope to be found?READ»

Why the End Times Might Reek of Methane

What does a climate change "tipping point" look like? We may be about to find out first hand.READ»

Augmented (Fashion) Reality

Earthquakes, global warming, patent lawsuits... it's all a bit much, sometimes. Even a sober-minded "moral guide to the future" needs a break. So today, we talk about fashion.READ»

Futures Thinking: Writing Scenarios

So what do scenarios actually look like? Here are some real-world examples.READ»

Futures Thinking: Mapping the Possibilities (Part 2)

Expected. Better. Worse. Weirder. What kind of world will we live in?READ»

Futures Thinking: Mapping the Possibilities (Part 1)

Turning what you see around you into stories about what's to come.READ»

Innovation as Resource and China's New Magnetism

China is set to cut off access to rare-earth elements--and this might be a very good thing.READ»

Futures Thinking: Scanning the World

Looking for the distant early warnings of tomorrow.READ»

IBM Simulates a Cat-Like Brain: AI or Shadow Minds for Humans?

IBM's new cat brain simulation is both more -- and less -- than it seems.READ»

Is the Atmosphere Simpler Than We Thought?

The "butterfly effect" is being set aside in favor of a multifractal process that will have a major impact on climate models.READ»

350

350 parts-per-million is the carbon limit. How will we get back there?READ»

Singularity Scenarios: The Ultimate Innovation or an AI Apocalypse?

If we do have something we can describe as a Singularity, what then?READ»

The Singularity and Society

If the Singularity proponents are right, the world is going to get really weird--but not in the way they expect.READ»

Futures Thinking: The Basics

You too can forecast the future!READ»

Application Progamming Interfaces Are Not a Substitute for Ethics

There's no substitute for ethical behavior.READ»

Awareness Is Everything

Constant awareness of the world... in our pockets.READ»