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The following are archived Futurist.com articles:
Business and Economics
- 10 Useful Ideas on Systems Thinking
- A New Mission for Humanity
- About Resilience
- Economic Turn-Around Leads to Slow Recovery: Glen Hiemstra Quarterly Forecast Q2 2009
- Future Challenges for CEO’s
- Future Philanthropy 1 – The Eye of the Needle Foundation
- Future Philanthropy 2 – An Interview with David Brin
- Globalization and Investment
- Leadership Challenges for 2001 and Beyond
- Stem Cells – The Golden State’s Choice is Good for America
- Top 10 Future Careers
- Why Does Your Company Care About Life Balance?
Creating Your Future
- A Life Balance Tool
- Balance and Boundaries in Our 24/7 World
- Creative Conflict: Generating Innovative Ideas
- Happy New Year 2005: Is The Future Better?
- Making Intentional Choices
- 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
- Scenario Planning
- The Future Creates the Present
- Tips for Choosing Life Balance Moments
- Tulsa 2025 – The Power of Vision
- Vision: Fantasy? Fad? or Key to Success?
- Your Personal Culture System© Must Support Your Body, Mind & Spirit
Environment and Energy
- End the Oil Age Now
- Energy, the Future, and Us
- Global Warming
- Kim Stanley Robinson Interview
- New Old Economy Challenges Scarcity Assumption
- 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
Future Trends
- Eleven Events, Trends and Developments that Will Change Your Life
- Eliminating Future Shock – The changing world of work and the organization
- Four Jobs of the Future
- Future Issues for State Supreme Courts
- Glen Hiemstra Quarterly Forecast Q4 2008: Sailing Rough Waters
- Glen Hiemstra Quarterly Forecast Q3 2008: This is not a drill
- Glen Hiemstra’s Annual Outlook Videos
- Global Warming: Local Solutions
- Outlook 2004
- Outlook 2005
- Outlook 2006
- Outlook 2008
- Outlook 2009 by Glen Hiemstra, Futurist, Keynote Speaker
- Outlook 2010, by Futurist Speaker Glen Hiemstra
- Over the Horizon: 21st Century Breakthroughs
- Population Explosion Ends In a Whimper
- Population Myths, Trends and Transportation Planning
- Preparing for the 21st Century
- The End of Retirement is Near
- The Future of Reading
- Thoughts on The Future of Transportation
- Ticking Time Bombs
Science and Technology
- Bionic Brain
- Geographic Information Systems: The Importance of Vision
- Hearing Ray Talk
- Mapping Ourselves: The Human Genome Project
- Medical Nanotechnology Ready for Human Trials
- Merging Realities: Blending Physical and Virtual
- Nanotechnology: The Science of Small Things
- Nanotechnology: The Very Small is Getting Big
- Retinal Scanning – Reversed!
- Science Fiction Museum: A Recommended Summer Stop in Seattle
- 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
Society and Culture
- 21st Century Fertile Crescent
- A Fascination with Difference: Part 1
- A Fascination with Difference: Part 2
- Some Notes About Calamity…and Opportunity
- Cities and the Future
- Future of Health Care Reform, by Glen Hiemstra, Futurist, Keynote Speaker
- Future Peril: Will Religion Be the Death of Us?
- Future Trends in American Religion
- Heroes of the Future
- Images of the Future
- Interview with Greg Bear
- Interview with Steven Barnes
- Joy and the Future
- Pro-Life! A Visit with Extropians
- 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
- U.S./Mexico Joint Working Committee: Vision and Hope
- The value – and empowerment – of common citizens in an age of danger
- Will Religion be the Death of Us?
Space
- A Higher Purpose: The Space Elevator
- Space Elevators
- The Age of Creation
- The Glass Tube of Mars
- Water On Mars
Letters from the Future
- Eric Woodford’s Letter from the Future
- James Gruens’ Letter From the Future
- Ana Oren’s Letter From the Future
- Jayan Pillai’s Letter From the Future
- Glen Hiemstra’s Letter From The Future
Questions about the Future
- What do you see as the challenges of a manager for the 21st Century?
- How will man keep his humanity in the future?
- How does one go about becoming a Futurist?
- Is being a Futurist lonely in the wilderness of present day conceptions?
- What is the global future of Agriculture?
- What is the future of Hotels?
- How do you define a Futurist?
- Help with Scenarios
- What is the future of English Literature
- What is the Future of the Human Resource Function
9/11 Retrospective
- Books to Read and Sources to Consult to Gain Perspective of the Possible and Preferred Future
- Coping in Times of High Stress
- Dream for the Future
- Email from Around the World
- Needed: A New Age of Enlightenment
- Terrorism: A Call to Positive Action
- Three Lenses on 9/11 and the Future
- Tragedy: The Next Steps
- What Sep. 11, 2001 Means for the Future, updated August 2002
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