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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.
Australia's Future http://www.users.bigpond.com/smartboard/decline/civfut.htm: A prediction about the nature of the impending Republic of Australia.
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.
Reflections Of A Changing Era http://www.usdreams.com/ReflecChanging49.html: Reflections Of A Changing Era, The American Dream, by Jim Bickford.
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.
Dr. Arthur B. Shostak http://www.futureshaping.com/shostak/: Professor of Sociology, and futurist. Includes his essays and book reviews.
Future's Edge http://www.futuresedge.org/: Topics include world population, stem cell research, limits of science, climate change, and anthrax. Includes links to other resources.
News for a Synergic Earth http://www.synearth.net: A collection of discussions and articles focused on culture, systems thinking and how to create a more sustainable future.
Futurlogics, a System of Prospective Thinking http://www.xmission.com/~fractil/f.html: Research method and a predictive model for dealing with the unknown.
Manifesto for the Peoples of the Third Millennium http://m3peeps.org/manif.htm: An outline of processes for developing progressive alternative societies.
Saving the Future http://savingthefuture.siteideas.net/: Suggests key changes that lead to an acceptable future. Offers articles and forum.
Carfree City Design http://www.priorities.org/carfree.htm: Exploring the prospect of designing auto-less, sustainable communities with alternative transportation, renewable energy, pedestrian orientation, mixed-use zoning, fiber optics and recycling facilities in all units and other green features to aid in long-term quality of life survival.
Innovation Watch http://www.innovationwatch.com: Follows developments in science, technology, business, society and the environment and assesses their impact.
Future Studies http://www.future-studies.com/: Essays on change, the future of humanity, and transhumanism, by Nick Bostrom; archival site, no longer updated.
Why the Future Doesn't Need Us http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html: Article on how technologies, including robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology, are threatening to make humans an endangered species.
Scenarios: The Red Herring Column http://www.gbn.org/ColumnListDisplayServlet.srv?col=10: Contains several papers about various topics. Including Yucca Mountain, the uture of the economy, and broad band.
Philosophy of Technology http://home.comcast.net/~reillyjones/: Several essays centered on how the world will cope with humanity's natural drive towards cultural and physical speciation.
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 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.
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.
Future Studies: An Interdisciplinary Vehicle for Space Science Education http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/future.html: Essay on futures studies' use in the space science curriculum which includes example methods, suggested reading, and three futures course descriptions.
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.
NIC - Mapping the Global Future 2020 http://www.cia.gov/nic/NIC_globaltrend2020.html: A document based on consultations with non governmental experts around the world, with regional and global scenarios representing alternative futures. By the National Intelligence Council, US Government.
Principles of Forecasting http://morris.wharton.upenn.edu/forecast/: 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.

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