The original Futurist.com launched in the 1990s 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. We are also posting some new articles here for a long term placement.
Several writers contributed to the Futurist.com articles archive over the years.
On this page you will find the archive of articles, mostly between 1997 and 2006, with some newer articles in recent years. For other recent material please check the blog and search the blog archives.
Business and Economics
- The Death of Offline
- Is Traditional IT Really Dead?
- 5 Aspects of Work that Will Change in the Future
- Economic Turn-Around Leads to Slow Recovery: Glen Hiemstra Quarterly Forecast Q2 2009
- Future Challenges for CEO’s
- Why Does Your Company Care About Life Balance?
- About Resilience
- Future Philanthropy 2 – An Interview with David Brin
- Future Philanthropy 1 – The Eye of the Needle Foundation
- Top 10 Future Careers
- Leadership Challenges for 2001 and Beyond
- 10 Useful Ideas on Systems Thinking
- Globalization and Investment
- A New Mission for Humanity
- Stem Cells – The Golden State’s Choice is Good for America
Creating Your Future
- Scenario Planning
- Your Personal Culture System© Must Support Your Body, Mind & Spirit
- Your Personal Culture System © Must Support Your Body, Mind & Spirit
- Tips for Choosing Life Balance Moments
- Making Intentional Choices
- A Life Balance Tool
- Creative Conflict: Generating Innovative Ideas
- Balance and Boundaries in Our 24/7 World
- Preferred Future Vision: We Can End the War with Terrorism
- Tulsa 2025 – The Power of Vision
- Happy New Year 2005: Is The Future Better?
- The Future Creates the Present
Enviorment and Energy
- Sustainable Housing for Colleges & Universities
- Energy, the Future, and Us
- Kim Stanley Robinson Interview
- The Ethical and Moral Dimensions of Peak Oil
- Out of Oil
- Powering the Future
- New Old Economy Challenges Scarcity Assumption
- Template for Sustainable Transportation
- Oil from Waste: Straw into Gold
- The Future of Energy
- End the Oil Age Now
- Global Warming
Future Trends
- The Two Big Issues for 2015: #1 – Income Gap Economics
- The Two Big Issues for 2015: #2 – Global Warming
- Outlook 2011, by Futurist Speaker Glen Hiemstra
- Outlook 2010, by Futurist Speaker Glen Hiemstra
- Glen Hiemstra’s Annual Outlook Videos
- Outlook 2009 by Glen Hiemstra, Futurist, Keynote Speaker
- Glen Hiemstra Quarterly Forecast Q4 2008: Sailing Rough Waters
- Glen Hiemstra Quarterly Forecast Q3 2008: This is not a drill
- Outlook 2008
- Over the Horizon: 21st Century Breakthroughs
- The Future of Reading
- Ticking Time Bombs
- Eleven Events, Trends and Developments that Will Change Your Life
- Preparing for the 21st Century
- Outlook 2004
- Future Issues for State Supreme Courts
- Four Jobs of the Future
- The End of Retirement is Near
- Eliminating Future Shock – The changing world of work and the organization
- Thoughts on The Future of Transportation
- Global Warming: Local Solutions
- Population Explosion Ends In a Whimper
- Population Myths, Trends and Transportation Planning
- Outlook 2006
- Outlook 2005
Science and Technology
- Merging Realities: Blending Physical and Virtual
- Retinal Scanning – Reversed!
- Nanotechnology: The Science of Small Things
- Mapping Ourselves: The Human Genome Project
- Virtual Reality Technology Helps Burn Victims
- Science Fiction Museum: A Recommended Summer Stop in Seattle
- Hearing Ray Talk
- Geographic Information Systems: The Importance of Vision
- Why Clones Fail – It’s Hard to Make a Human
- Nanotechnology: The Very Small is Getting Big
- The Singularity: A Beginning
- Medical Nanotechnology Ready for Human Trials
- The Elegance of Hard Science: Reporting on a talk and recommending a book
- Bionic Brain
Society and Culture
- Future of Religion: The Summer of Presbyterian Discontent
- Future of Music: Interview with Amanda Ray
- Future of Health Care Reform, by Glen Hiemstra, Futurist, Keynote Speaker
- Future Challenges for CEO’s
- U.S./Mexico Joint Working Committee: Vision and Hope
- Interview with Steven Barnes
- A Fascination with Difference: Part 2
- A Fascination with Difference: Part 1
- 21st Century Fertile Crescent
- Will Religion be the Death of Us?
- Heroes of the Future
- Future Trends in American Religion
- Pro-Life! A Visit with Extropians
- Interview with Greg Bear
- Cities and the Future
- Some Notes About Calamity…and Opportunity
- The value – and empowerment – of common citizens in an age of danger
- Joy and the Future
- Images of the Future
- Thoughts about Insurgent Warfare
- The Future of Suburban Life in America: Three Scenarios
- The Future of Cities
- Religion and Public Policy
- The Future of Friendship
- Future Peril: Will Religion Be the Death of Us?
Space
- The Age of Creation
- Water On Mars
- Space Elevators
- The Glass Tube of Mars
- A Higher Purpose: The Space Elevator
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 is the Future of the Human Resource Function
- What is the future of English Literature
- Help with Scenarios
- How do you define a Futurist?
- What is the future of Hotels?
- What is the global future of Agriculture?
- Is being a Futurist lonely in the wilderness of present day conceptions?
- How does one go about becoming a Futurist?
- How will man keep his humanity in the future?
- What do you see as the challenges of a manager for the 21st Century?
9/11 Retrospective
- Tragedy: The Next Steps
- Terrorism: A Call to Positive Action
- Books to Read and Sources to Consult to Gain Perspective of the Possible and Preferred Future
- Email from Around the World
- Dream for the Future
- Needed: A New Age of Enlightenment
- Three Lenses on 9/11 and the Future
- Coping in Times of High Stress
- What Sep. 11, 2001 Means for the Future, updated August 2002
