What is your image of the future? What do you think is probable? Possible? Preferred? The material here explores future topics and issues such as demographics, global issues, the environment, transportation, culture, values, science and technology, space, religion, creating your future, energy, and much more. We explore trends, discuss techniques for exploring the future, present interviews, and offer solutions. Be sure to look for additional articles to be found in the archives.

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Sustainable Housing for Colleges and Universities by Glen Hiemstra

Outlook 2008 by Glen Hiemstra

Energy, the Future, and Us by Mark Safford

The Ethical and Moral Dimensions of Peak Oil by Mark Safford

Eleven Events, Trends and Developments that Will Change Your Life by Glen Hiemstra

Heroes of the Future by Brenda Coooper

Eliminating Future Shock - The changing world of work and the organization by Sohail Inayatullah

Future Trends

• Eleven Events, Trends and Developments that Will Change Your Life
• Eliminating Future Shock - The changing world of work and the organization
• Global Warming: Local Solutions
• Outlook 2005
• Outlook 2006
• Outlook 2008
• Population Explosion Ends In a Whimper
• Population Myths, Trends and Transportation Planning
• Thoughts on The Future of Transportation
• Ticking Time Bombs

Creating Your Future

• A Life Balance Tool
• Happy New Year 2005: Is The Future Better?
• Mutual Vision: Why It’s Important For Your Organization To Merge Its Vision With The Visions Of Its Employees
• Preferred Future Vision: We Can End the War with Terrorism
• The Future Creates the Present
• Tulsa 2025 - The Power of Vision

Business and Economics

• 10 Useful Ideas on Systems Thinking
• A New Mission for Humanity
• Future Challenges for CEO’s
• Globalization and Investment
• Stem Cells - The Golden State’s Choice is Good for America

Science and Technology

• Bionic Brain
• Medical Nanotechnology Ready for Human Trials
• Nanotechnology: The Very Small is Getting Big
• The Elegance of Hard Science: Reporting on a talk and recommending a book
• The Singularity: A Beginning
• Virtual Reality Technology Helps Burn Victims
• Why Clones Fail - It’s Hard to Make a Human

Environment and Energy

• End the Oil Age Now
• Energy, the Future, and Us
• Global Warming
• Kim Stanley Robinson Interview
• Oil from Waste: Straw into Gold
• Out of Oil
• Powering the Future
• Sustainable Housing for Colleges & Universities
• Template for Sustainable Transportation
• The Ethical and Moral Dimensions of Peak Oil
• The Future of Energy

Society and Culture

• Cities and the Future
• Future Peril: Will Religion Be the Death of Us?
• Heroes of the Future
• Religion and Public Policy
• The Future of Cities
• The Future of Friendship
• The Future of Suburban Life in America: Three Scenarios
• Thoughts about Insurgent Warfare

Space

• A Higher Purpose: The Space Elevator