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A collection of discussions and articles focused on culture, systems thinking and how to create a more sustainable future.
http://www.synearth.net

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.
http://www.linturi.fi/100_phenomena/index.html

A prediction about the nature of the impending Republic of Australia.
http://www.users.bigpond.com/smartboard/decline/civfut.htm

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

Reflections Of A Changing Era, The American Dream, by Jim Bickford.
http://www.usdreams.com/ReflecChanging49.html

Wide-ranging essays on our potential to create planet-sized Matrioshka Brains millions of times more intelligent than today's humans.
http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury...shkaBrains/MatrioshkaBrains.html

People of the future give advice on spiritual and political development. Excerpts from Dr. Allen Tough's book of the same title.
http://members.aol.com/allentough/fg.html

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

Professor of Sociology, and futurist. Includes his essays and book reviews.
http://www.futureshaping.com/shostak/

Topics include world population, stem cell research, limits of science, climate change, and anthrax. Includes links to other resources.
http://www.futuresedge.org/

Articles related to decision makers lag and its economic and cultural consequnces.
http://www.burcet.net/escenarios/second_fracture.htm

Research method and a predictive model for dealing with the unknown.
http://www.xmission.com/~fractil/f.html

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

Suggests key changes that lead to an acceptable future. Offers articles and forum.
http://savingthefuture.siteideas.net/

Provides forecasts of scientific and social developments; tracks cutting edge technology like nanotechnology and genetics; offers insight into changes in near future lifestyles.
http://www.sageous.com/beafraid.html

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.
http://www.priorities.org/carfree.htm

Compendium of research papers, scientific studies and learned opinions regarding issues that will have profound affect upon our children.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/truegrowth/legacy.htm

Follows developments in science, technology, business, society and the environment and assesses their impact.
http://www.innovationwatch.com

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

Essay on futures studies' use in the space science curriculum which includes example methods, suggested reading, and three futures course descriptions.
http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/future.html

Article on how technologies, including robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech, are threatening to make humans an endangered species.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html

Contains several papers about various topics. Including Yucca Mountain, the uture of the economy, and broad band.
http://www.gbn.org/ColumnListDisplayServlet.srv?col=10

Several essays centered on how the world will cope with humanity's natural drive towards cultural and physical speciation.
http://home.comcast.net/~reillyjones/

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

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