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• 100 Phenomena

  http://www.linturi.fi/100_phenomena/index.html
  Complete English text from the Finnish book "100 Phenomena" by Risto Linturi and Ilkka Hannula containing miniature scenarios for the years 2000 to 2020 illustrating what may happen in our future and how it will feel.

• A Message From Future Generations

  http://ieti.org/tough/articles/fg.htm
  People of the future give advice on spiritual and political development. Dr. Allen Tough's book.

• Australia's Future

  http://www.ourcivilisation.com/futureoz.htm
  A prediction about the nature of the impending Republic of Australia.

• Future Studies

  http://www.future-studies.com/
  Essays on change, the future of humanity, and transhumanism, by Nick Bostrom; archival site, no longer updated.

• Introduction to Future Studies

  http://www.csudh.edu/global_options/IntroFS.HTML#FSMethodols
  A summary of methodologies for studying change and future. By Linda Groff and Paul Smoker, Global Options, California State University, USA.

• Manifesto for the Peoples of the Third Millennium

  http://m3peeps.org/manif.htm
  An outline of processes for developing progressive alternative societies.

• Principles of Forecasting

  http://www.forecastingprinciples.com/
  From the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA. Seeks to develop a set of principles to guide forecasting for problems in management, operations research, and the social sciences.

• ROBOT: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind, by Hans Moravec

  http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/book98/
  Additional figures and text for Moravec's book on the next six decades.

• Social Fiction - S. Flor

  http://www.social-fiction.de/
  Report from the year 2029: local markets have become an important complement to the established global economic system.

• The Collegiate Landscape of the Future

  http://www.collegiateway.org/future/
  The universities of the future won't be built around the Internet; they will be built around small residential colleges.

• The National Intelligence Council's 2025 Project

  http://www.dni.gov/nic/NIC_home.html
  The fourth unclassified report prepared by US National Intelligence Council (NIC) in recent years that takes a long-term view of the future. It offers a fresh look at how key global trends might develop over the next 15 years to influence world events.

• The Retrieval Hypothesis

  http://www.burcet.net/retrieval/
  Some day, the humans or their descendants using a very advanced technology and knowledge will be able to rebuild dead individuals.

• The Sky is the Linit

  http://jp.senescence.info/thoughts/transhumanism.html
  A personal discussion of the most relevant and actual of the world's problems.

• Why the Future Doesn't Need Us

  http://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/
  Article on how technologies, including robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology, are threatening to make humans an endangered species.

 

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