Articles Archive

The original Futurist.com launched in the 1990′s before the world of blogs began. In those days we published articles, and did so through 2006 when I started the blog. Since then most new material appears in the blog and blog archive.

Several writers contributed to the Futurist.com articles archive.

On this page you will find the archive of articles, mostly between 1997 and 2006, with a few newer articles. For more recent material search the blog archives.

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
• 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
• Your Personal Culture System© Must Support Your Body, Mind & Spirit
• 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
• Outlook 2011, 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 of Music: Interview with Amanda Ray
• Future of Religion: The Summer of Presbyterian Discontent
• 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
• Anna 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

Visit the 9/11 Retrospective page.