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ASF Community Directory
Leading strategic futures groups
This page lists a broad range of important groups engaging in strategic
futures dialogs. Some are acceleration-aware,
others have not yet broadly or carefully considered the implications
of accelerating scientific and technological change on political,
business, social, and personal futures in their domains of interest.
In our own small way, we can all help them do so. As a futurist,
many of these groups should be on your radar. As a change leader,
several of these deserve your individual support. This list is mostly
North American, at present. Others to recommend? Let
us know.
Futures
Organizations
Top
Futures Organizations
Institutions,
Consultancies, Websites — Many are Acceleration-Aware
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Studies Foundation
Improving the way we look at the future with outreach, education,
research, and selective advocacy.
ACUNU Millennium Project for
Global Futures Studies and Research
Global research think tank of futurists, scholars, business
planners, and policy makers (Jerry Glenn, Ted Gordon).
Adizes Institute
Leading change management/organizational development consultancy
(Ichak Adizes).
African
Futures Institute
Pan-African foresight (prospective studies) and development
thinking (Cape Town, South Africa)
AIR
Worldwide (AIR)
Innovators in natural catastrophe and terrorism risk modeling
(Karen Clark).
Arlington
Institute
Surfacing and preparing for surprise in the technological
future (John Peterson).
Association for Strategic
Planning
Helping organizations to succeed through improved strategic
thinking, planning, and action.
Association
of Professional Futurists
Improving methodology and practice in the nascent future studies
field (Randy Scheel, Andy Hines)
Battelle
Technology development and assessment for industry and government.
Belfer Center
for Science and International Affairs (JFK Sch of Govt,
Harvard U)
Long term futures work on International security, climate
change, nuclear issues, Middle East issues.
Bell
Labs
Historical leader in blue sky U.S. R&D. Lucent's innovation
group.
Booz Allen Hamilton
A global strategy and consulting firm, strong on forecasting
and analysis.
Boston Consulting Group
One of the oldest and most diverse business consulting firms.
Nice publications archive.
Breaking
Trends (UK)
Global trends intelligence from 'alpha' cities and leading
innovators (Alec Howe).
Brint Institute
Leading knowledge management portal applying systems research
to business (Yogesh Malhatra).
BTexact, (and Ian
Pearson, Futurologist)
Acceleration-aware futures articles and conference keynotes
(Ian Pearson).
Center for an Urban Future
NYC-based think-tank considering the future of cities.
Center for Critical
Foresight at Stanford University
Improving long-range planning and decisionmaking through research
and education, scenario development, and curricula in futures
studies.
Center for the Study
of Science Fiction (CSSF)
Resources for teaching and navigating the fascinating, future-oriented
world of science fiction (James Gunn). See also Science
Fiction Research Assn (SFRA), oldest professional org.
for study of sci-fi and fantasy lit. and film.
Center for Strategic and International
Studies (CSIS)
Nonpartisan think tank of semi-indedependent analysts, all
focusing on strategic insights and policy solutions to current
and emerging global issues (John Hamre, Sam Nunn). See for
example their Seven Revolutions
20 year futuring program (Erik Peterson).
Clarium Capital Management
Exceptional future-oriented global macro hedge fund with a
contrarian bias. (Peter Thiel)
Conferenza
News and commentary on technology's most important executive
conferences (Shel Israel)
Community
Futures Network (Canada)
A network of 268 community economic development and visioning
centers. Great example of government foresight and participatory
democracy.
Copenhagen Institute for
Futures Studies (Denmark)
Strengthening decision-making in public and private organisations
by improving awareness of the future.
Datamonitor
Leading broad-based market research company.
DaVinci Institute
Entrepreneurship, innovation, and futurism. Membership organization.
Deutche
Bank Research
A leading global think tank for trends in business, society,
and finance.
Draper Fisher
Jurvetson
Premiere IT and nano venture capital for accelerating technological
change (Tim Draper, John Fisher, Steve Jurvetson).
Edge.org
Leading site for deep social, technological, and scientific
commentary (John Brockman).
Economic Research Associates
Economic analysis and future use assessments for industry
and government.
Estonian Institute for
Futures Studies
Foresight and development studies for the future of Estonia.
European Foresight Monitoring
Network
Fantastic portal for global foresight project activities.
Run by Mike Keenan of U. Manchester, PREST (United Kingdom).
Extropy
Institute
Increasing human choice and freedom in the future (Max More,
Natasha Vita-More).
Fast Future
UK-based change management, innovation, incubation, and venturing
group (Rohit Talwar)
Finnish Society for
Futures Studies
Futures research and development studies for Finland.
Finland
Futures Academy (Turku, Finland)
Futures studies for universities. 17 member universities.
Forecast
International
Market research and intel group serving aerospace, defense,
and power systems.
Forecasting
International
Global trend analysis, futures consulting and speaking (Marvin
Cetron)
Foresight
Institute
Understanding the future of nanotechnology (Eric Drexler,
Christine Peterson).
Forrester Research
Technology trends, strategy, and investment research.
Future
Foundation - Experian (London, UK)
Consumer trends, market research, new product research (Melanie
Howard, Michael Wilmott).
Futures Foundation
(Melbourne, Australia)
Tools and perspectives for indiv. and organizational futures
(Charles Brass).
Futures Group
International (and Futures
Group Europe)
International health and development planning.
Future Skills
(West Yorkshire, UK)
Presentations and workshops on all aspects of futures studies
(Graham May).
Futures Lab
Consumer and business futures consultancy (Derek Woodgate,
Wayne Pethrick).
Futuribles
Prospective studies/foresight research since 1960's (Michel
Godet)
Futurist.com
Futures retreats, seminars, and conference keynotes (Glenn
Hiemstra, Brenda Cooper).
Gallup Organization
Global polling, market research and consulting organization.
Gartner Group
Research and advice in using information technology in business.
Global Business
Network - Monitor Group
Scenarios and risk management for the longer term future (Peter
Schwartz).
Global Change
Trends analysis and conference keynotes (Pat Dixon)
Global
Ideas Bank
Repository for edited public domain tech, policy, and business
ideas for the taking.
Global Insight
World's leading econometric forecasting think tank.
Global Future Forum
Independent partnership of futurists, academics, and businesspeople
for futuring, strategic planning and change management (Rohit
Talwar).
Global Vision Consulting Ltd.
Helping organizations understand and respond effectively to
accelerating change (David Forrest).
GLOCOM,
International U. of Japan
Social science analysis of the information society.
Henley Centre
International strategic futures and marketing consultancy
(UK).
IBM
Almaden Research Center, IBM Research
Developing visionary products and platforms for intelligent
technology.
Institute of Business Forecasting
(IBF)
A full-service provider of business forecasting and operations
planning services.
International Data Corporation
(IDC)
Leading information technology market research firm.
IEEE (Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers)
"Eye-triple-E" is a non-profit, technical professional
association of 380,000 individual members in 150 countries.
Industrial Research Institute
Association of business leaders in R&D, working to enhance
the effectiveness of technological innovation.
INEER (International
Network for Engineering Education and Research)
A networking professional organization (engineers, educators
and researchers in 98 countries) to help advance global engineering
education and research.
Infinite Futures
Forsight consulting, futures research, and strategic planning
(Wendy Schultz).
Information Technology Association
of America (ITAA)
Trade association representing the broad spectrum of the world-leading
U.S. IT industry.
In-Q-Tel
DARPA/VC arm of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Communicating
intel needs, reviewing business plans, funding companies,
delivering tech solutions. Founded 1999.
In-Stat/MDR
Leaders in market research and forecasts for semiconductor
and digital devices.
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Institute
for Alternative Futures (IAF)
Health care futures, governance and public policy consultancy
(Clem Bezold, Jonathan Peck).
Institute
for Future Studies (Innsbruck, Austria)
Applied research on the future of education and work.
Institute
for Futures Research (IFR) (Bellville, South Africa)
Corporate strategy support. Affiliated with the U. of Stellenbosch
futures studies graduate program.
Institute
for Futures Studies (IFS) (Stockholm, Sweden)
Futures studies, long-term analysis, and related activities.
Institute for Futures
Studies and Technology Assessment (Germany)
Evaluating the development of emerging technologies, with
a focus on sustainability (Rolf Kreibich)
Institute
for Global Futures (IGF)
Business strategy, outreach, and forecasts for the digital
future. (James Canton)
Institute for Operations
Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Serves scientific and professional needs of OR/MS investigators,
scientists, students, educators, and managers. OR is optimization
theory and practice, "the science of better."
Institute for the Future
at AACC
Excellent example of the kind of futures organization that
should exist at every institute of higher education in the
U.S. Has a speakers bureau for the faculty at this Community
College that like to speak on the future, not just the past
or present.
Institute for Scientific Research
(ISR)
Advanced research and development for NASA, DoD, govt., and
commercial clients (George Pederson).
Institute for the Future (IFTF)
One of the oldest and most respected futures consultancies
(Paul Saffo).
International Institute
of Forecasters (IIF)
Stimulating the generation, distribution, and use of knowledge
on forecasting.
International Society for Technology
in Education (ISTE)
Globally improving teaching and learning by advancing the
effective use of technology in education.
Jupiter Research
Market research and analysis of the consumer internet industry.
KurzweilAI.net
Leading long-term technology and artificial intelligence futures
portal (Ray Kurzweil, Amara Angelica).
Linden Lab
Creators of Second Life,
the award-winning 3D online world where users create, inhabit,
and own all digital content of their own design (Philip Rosedale,
Cory Ondrejka)
LIPSOR
(Laboratory for Investigation in Prospective Strategy and
Org) (France)
Strategic foresight in emerging technologies. Strong PhD tech
foresight program through CNAM.
Long Now Foundation
Promoting long-term thinking and action. Excellent Seminars
About Long-Term Thinking. See Long
Bets for publicly-accountable long-term predictions (Jeff
Bezos, Stuart Brand, Kevin Kelly).
Long
Future Research Group (Hungary)
An attempt to look at the future on cosmological timescales
(Eva Toth).
ManyWorlds
Strategy, innovation, futures, and collaborative process management
(Steve Flynn).
Markle Foundation
Accelerating communications media and information technology
development to improve civic life.
Max
Planck Society for the Advancement of Science
Interdisciplinary and innovative research in the natural sciences,
life sciences, social sciences, and humanities. 21,000 in
staff.
McKinsey
Global Institute
Economic research think tank of McKinsey & Co. Excellent
broad reporting.
NASA Institute for Advanced
Concepts (NAIC)
Seeks proposals for revolutionary aeronautics and space concepts
from outside thinkers and researchers. Model for eliciting
high-leverage public foresight.
National Institute
of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Japan's largest public research organization. Bleeding edge.
National Intelligence
Council of the CIA
The U.S. intelligence community's center for mid- and long-term
strategic thinking. Excellent futures publications.
Office of Naval Research
(ONR)
To foster, plan, facilitate and transition scientific research.
PA Consulting Group
One of the oldest and largest global mgmt, systems, and tech
consulting groups.
Panopticon
Innovative visioning and alternative futures group in Antwerp
(Belgium).
PARC (Palo Alto Research
Center)
Xerox subsidiary. Interdisciplinary R&D in physical, comp.,
and social sciences.
Pardee
Center for the Study of the Long Range Future, Boston
U.
Exploring the world's long-term political and social future.
Principia
Cybernetica Project
Leading portal for exploring concepts in cybernetics, systems
theory, and complex adaptive systems (Francis Heylighen)
Program for the Human
Environment, Rockefeller University
Exploring how long-run technical change relates to productivity
and efficiency of energy, materials, land, and other resources,
and the consequences for human populations. Elucidating our
progression toward a micro-emissions society.
PSFK
Trends, innovation and market consulting, publishing, and
conferences (Piers Fawkes)
RAND Corporation
(and RAND Pardee Center)
Trend extrapolation, policy studies and tech assessment pioneers.
Rocky Mountain Institute
Innovation and technology oriented sustainability organization.
Natural capitalism paradigm (Amory Lovins).
SAMI
(St. Andrews Management Institute) Consulting
Scenario planning, strategy, and risk management consulting
to deliver resilient decisions in uncertain times (Gill Ringland).
Santa Fe Institute (and
SFI
Business Network)
Leading quantitative complexity studies institution (George
Cowan, Murray Gell-Mann).
Shaping Tomorrow
Subscription-based trend analysis and futures database community.
Free newsletter. (Mike Jackson).
Shell Scenarios
Group
Scenario planning pioneers. Long term energy and technology
futures.
Social Technologies
Corporate and institutional futures consultancy (Tom Conger).
SRI International
(and SRI Consulting
(Chemical and Health))
Consulting and strategic planning for the longer range future.
Stratfor
Private intelligence for global business, economics, security,
and geopolitics.
TechCast
Expert tech trend forecasting and analysis community (Bill
Halal).
Technology
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Maximizing technology’s contribution to economic growth,
high-wage job creation, and the social well being of the United
States. Includes NIST, NTIS and OTP.
Trendburo
Social and marketing trend consultancy (Matthias Horx, Ooona
Strathern).
Trendirama
Collaborative platform for writing and rating articles about
the future of a variety of topics (Javier Marti)
Trends Research Institute
(TRI)
A network of 25 multidisciplinary experts who forecast, analyze
and track trends (Gerald Celente).
TTI/Vanguard
Five conference/year forum for evaluation of emerging and
breakthrough information technologies for Fortune 500's and
top institutions. $30,000/seat. (Hal Levin)
Umberto
Veronesi Foundation for the Progress of Science
Great annual conference on the Future
of Science. (Venice, Italy).
U.S.
Air War College - Future Studies
Futures perspectives on security, warfighting, strategy, sci-tech,
counterproliferation, innovation adoption, and other topics.
(Ted Hailes)
Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars (WWICS) and
Foresight and Governance Project at WWICS
Center is a living memorial for President Wilson, the
only U.S. president with a Ph.D., who believed public service
and scholarship should be unified. Acceleration-aware "policy
dialog in a Moore's Law World." (David Rejeski)
Woodside Institute
Complexity-inspired (resilience and innovation) strategic
planning (Gary Hamel, Liisa Valikangas).
Worldchanging.org
Models, tools and ideas for building a bright green future.
Worthy successors to Whole Earth Review and Whole
Earth Catalog.
World Future
Council
The first well-funded effort (5 million Euros) at creating
an international consortium of futures researchers. Focused
on sustainability over innovation, yet a good balance to Western
views. New HQ in 2007.
World Future
Society
Seeking out the world's preferred cultural and political futures
(Ed and Jeff Cornish, Cindy Wagner, Sue Echard).
World Futures Studies Federation
(WFSF)
Small group of academic and internationalist futurists. They
are heavily represented with utopian socialists and cultural
relativists (often anti-sci-tech, anti-West), though this
may change.
World Technology Network
Multidisciplinary association of scientists and technologists
creating new technologies and business processes. Invitation
only.
World
Transhumanist Association
Considering technological changes to the human condition in
the near and longer-term future (Nick Bostrom, James Hughes).
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Other
Important Future-Related Orgs
Scientific,
Technology, Governance, Business, Political, Social,
Personal
and Spiritual —
Not Necessarily Acceleration Aware
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Scientific and Research
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for Science and Technology Research in America (ASTRA)
Groups working to increase federal funding for the physical
& mathematical sciences and engineering.
Atmospheric
and Environmental Research
Weather prediction. Leaders in the proposal for weather (hurricane,
storm) control via space based satellite heating (Ross Hoffman).
American Society
for Cybernetics
Small group (<200 members) spreading awareness and interest
in cybernetics, control theory, and systems thinking. Founded
in 1964. (Heinz Von Foerster)
American
Statistical Association (ASA)
Founded in 1839 for promoting statistical practice, applications,
and research, improving statistical education and the statistics
profession.
Arden Institute
Innovative research on synthetic worlds (Ted Castronova)
Aspen Center for Physics
Unique summer retreats for physics and astrophysics researchers.
Association of Science-Technology
Centers (ASTC)
Building the effectiveness of Sci-Tech centers and museums
nationally.
Asymmetric
Threats Contingency Alliance (ATCA)
Research initiative discussing global asymmetric threats (DK
Matai).
Astrobiology
at NASA
Astrobiophysical exploration of the past and future of life
in the universe. Very useful big-picture dialog.
Center for Inquiry
International
Promoting science, reason, and freedom of inquiry. Publish
Skeptical Inquirer.
Computer Professionals for
Social Responsibility
Assessing the power, problems, and promise of information
technologies.
Council of Scientific Society
Presidents (CSSP)
Elected leaders of sixty U.S. scientific organizations. Science
policy and leadership organization.
CrossRef
A nonprofit group promoting open standards for citation linking
on the web.
Institute for Mathematical
Behavioral Sciences (UCI)
Generating a fruitful relationship between mathematical models
and the behavioral and social sciences
Institute for Pure and
Applied Mathematics (IPAM) (UCLA)
NSF-funded center for interdisciplinary math modelling, including
singularity theory.
Institute for Science, Engineering,
and Public Policy (ISEPP)
Improving local understanding of issues in science, technology
and society (STS) (Terry Bristol). Portland,
OR; San Jose, CA.
International Federation of
Systems Research (IFSR)
A small but very thoughtful international and academic group
of systems researchers.
International Network
of Scientists and Engineers for Global Responsibility (INES)
Developing insight into the impact of science and technology
on society. Disarmament focus.
International Institute for
Advanced Studies (IIAS) in Systems Research and Cybernetics
Committed to the transdisciplinary development and promotion
of cybernetics and systems research.
International Institute
for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Inter-disciplinary scientific studies on environmental, economic,
technological and social issues in the context of human dimensions
of global change.
International Institute for
General Systems Studies (IIGSS)
Promoting research and education and development of more mature
theories and truly successful applications of systems research
in all branches of knowledge (J. Yi-Lin Forrest)
International Society for the
Systems Sciences (ISSS)
The original general systems theory society. Small, international
(Ludwig von Bertalanffy)
International Society
for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI)
Professionals in the emerging interdisciplinary fields of
informetrics, bibliometrics/scientometrics, technometrics
and webometrics.
Institute for International
Education (IIE)
World leader in the international exchange of educators, fellows,
scholars, and ideas (Global)
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Karolinska
Institute
A world leader in public health and medical research.
Merck
Institute for Science Education
Improving U.S. teacher ability, student participation, and
performance in science subjects.
NASA
Institute for Advanced Concepts
Revolutionary aeronautics and space concepts based on sound
scientific principles, attainable in a 10 to 40 year time
frame.
National Academy of Sciences
Pro bono expert advisors to the nation on science, engineering,
and medicine.
National Council for
Science and the Environment
Studies, programs, and conferences to improve the scientific
basis for environmental decisionmaking.
National Center for Science
Education (NCSE)
Defending the teaching of evolution in public schools. Considers
all intelligent design "creationist." Doesn't understand
the theory of intelligent self-organized design (developmental
cosmology).
National Science Teachers Association
(NTSA)
Promoting excellence and innovation in science teaching and
learning (55,000 members).
New England Complex Systems Institute
(NECSI)
Multidisciplinary educational and research institute, advancing
the study of complex systems.
Physicians for
Social Responsibility
Elimination of weapons of mass destruction and violence, sustainability
promotion.
Science Ed. for
New Civic Engagement & Responsibilities (SENCER)
NSF-funded summer institute for science educators who want
to improve critical thinking, analysis, numeracy, and civic
responsibility.
Scientists and Engineers
for America (SEA)
A policy group dedicated to electing public officials who
respect evidence and understand the importance of using scientific
and engineering advice in making public policy. They plan
to "grade" public officials on this. What a concept!
SETI Institute
Research in the origin, nature, and prevalence of intelligent
life in the universe.
Skeptics Society
Promoting scientific and critical thinking. Evaluating edge
science and the paranormal.
Society for Amateur Scientists
Helping ordinary people ("citizen scientists") learn
and do scientific research.
Society for the Social
Studies of Science (4S)
Oldest and largest scholarly association devoted to understanding
science and technology.
Society
for Integrative and Comparative Biology
Exploring structure and action of biological systems at multiple
scales.
Society
for Scientific Exploration (SSE)
Investigation of anomalous and speculative topics usually
ignored by science. Since 1982.
Systems Dynamics
Society (SDS)
Studying and managing complex feedback systems in business,
technology, and society. Founded 1984. (Jay Forrester)
Union of Concerned Scientists
Scientists and citizens building a healthier, safer, environmentally
sustainable world.
US Naval Research Laboratory
(NRL)
Corporate research laboratory for the Navy and Marine Corps
World Technopolis
Association
International network of "science cities," promoting
better S&T city development and governance.
Zogby International
Polling and market research for North America, Latin America,
the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.
Edge Science
Informological Institute
(Geneva, Switzerland)
"Informology" is defined here as an emerging information
science of spatial relations between information processing
systems. (Informology is better known as library and information
science). Transdisciplinary, of uneven quality.
Poor Science/Disinformation
Association for
the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO)
Instructive example of how data can be systematically misconstrued
in service to an agenda: the proposal that world is "energy
poor" and will run out of cheap fossil fuels by the mid
21st century. So far, the evidence is strongly against this
perspective.
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Technology and Innovation
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21st Century
Airships
Prototypes for "stratellites"
at 50,000 ft. for continuous city monitoring, border defense
and broadband (Hokan Colting).
ABI Research
Technology market research for manufacturers and service companies.
Ackoff Center for
the Advancement of Systems Approaches (ACASA at U Penn)
Dedicated to advancing Systems Thinking research worldwide
(Russ Ackoff)
Advanced Design Institute
Facilitating advanced design thinking and practice.
Alignent
Technology and product roadmapping software for product development
and innovation.
American Association for Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI)
Excellent generalist coverage of the A.I. field.
American Council for Technology
(ACT)
Networking industry and the government IT community in initiatives
to improve government.
American Electronics Association
Nationwide non-profit trade association representing all U.S.
technology industries, from software and semiconductors to
electronics and telecom.
American Society for Information
Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
4,000 librarians and information professionals searching for
new and better theories, techniques, and technologies to improve
access to information.
American Technology
Research
Independent research on technology and growth companies.
APEC Center
for Technology Foresight (CTF) (Thailand)
Improving foresight capability and leading-edge planning tools
for APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) nation economies
and businesses.
Archimedes
Project (Stanford University)
IT assistance project for the disabled, elderly, illliterate,
and all users of information appliances. Linguistic user interface
oriented.
Artificial Development
Building CCortex™, the largest simulation of the human
cortex and peripheral neural systems to date (Marcos Guillen)
Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL)
Leading computational linguistics/NLP society. CUI here we
come!
Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM)
Oldest and largest computer science society in the U.S.
BBN Technologies
Very creative contract innovator. One of the original developers
of the internet. Today they do a lot of security innovation
for the DoD and industry.
Bridges.org
International nonprofit promoting effective use of ICT in
the developing world.
Buckminster Fuller Institute
Anticipatory design science. Sustainable technologies for
Spaceship Earth.
CacheLogic
Leading research on the bottom-up growth of P2P networks.
Center for the Development
of Technological Leadership (CDTL)
Bridging the gap between engineering, strategy, and foresight
for high-tech businesses (U. of Minnesota).
Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
Considering near and longer term issues and implications of
nanotechnology development.
CommunityNetworking.org
Low-cost IT networks and open source tools for community empowerment.
Computer Emergency Response
Team (CERT)
A center of Internet security expertise. Carnegie Mellon U.
Computer Security Institute
Leading membership organization training information, computer
and network security professionals.
DARPA Grand
Challenge
Autonomous vehicles competition, L.A. to Las Vegas. $1 million
prize.
Edison Electric Institute (EEI)
The association of U.S. shareholder-owned electric companies,
industry associates, and international affiliates (60% of
US electricity).
Electric Power
Research Institute (EPRI)
A nonprofit center for public interest energy and environmental
research.
Engineers for
a Sustainable World (ESW)
Innovative development solutions for the third of the world
still in poverty.
Engineers Without Borders
Linking engineering students with projects in developing countries
for clean water, renewable energy, appropriate and sustainable
technology.
Firefox
(Mozilla)
Award-winning free open source browser. Preserving choice
and innovation on the internet (Blake Ross)
Franklin
Institute
Formed in 1824 to promote science, technology, and the legacy
of Benjamin Franklin. Oldest and prestigious annual US awards
in S&T.
GRID Alternatives
Providing subsidized solar panels for low income communities
in need, allowing them to sell their excess energy back to
the grid. $600,000 annual budget, donation-based.
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Hypercar
Amory Lovin's CFRP (carbon fiber reinforced plastic) auto
body design and production group. Radical lightweighting and
fuel saving.
IDEO
Leading product design consultants (Tom Kelley)
Information Technology
& Innovation Foundation
Advancing a pro-innovation, pro-technology public policy agenda
(Wash, DC)
Innovation-TRIZ
Forecasting and planning tool based on the study of invention
patterns in global patent literature (Jack Hipple).
Institute
of Transportation Studies
(U.C. Berkeley)
Funded at $25M/yr. One of the world's leading centers for
transportation research and futures.
International Association
of Nanotechnology (IANANO)
Fostering global research and business collaboration in nanotech.
Roadmap.
International Center for Technology
Assessment (ICTA)
Nonprofit exploring the economic, ethical, social, environmental
and political impacts of technology (Washington, DC).
International Federation of
Robotics
Annual ISR conference, maintains comprehensive list of companies
in robotics.
International Informatics Institute
ICT and electronic media research, education and consulting
(Jack Powers).
International
Technology Education Association (ITEA)
The leading professional organization of technology teachers.
Promoting worldwide technological literacy by improving the
teaching of technology and the professionalism of those engaged
in this pursuit.
International Traffic
Medicine Association (ITMA)
Working to reduce automotive fatalities worldwide. There are
42,000 such deaths annually in the U.S. (15th worst per million
vehicles in 2004). The vast majority are due to driver behavior.
International
Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Leading society exploring genetic algorithms and early evolutionary
computation. Not yet biologically-inspired or evolutionary
developmental, but a worthy start.
KnowledgeContext
Giving young people the ability to make the best choices in
a world where computers, telecommunications, and biotechnology
change with greater and greater speed.
MITRE
Nonprofit charted to do systems, IT, and operations R&D
in the public interest. 5,700 scientists.
National Association of Manufacturers
(NAM)
The nation's oldest and largest broad-based industrial trade
association, represents 14,000 companies in every industrial
sector in every state.
NeuroInsights
Investing and strategy coverage of the emerging neurotechnology
industry (Zack Lynch).
Outsell
Market analysis for the information industry. Leading analysts
of the IT analysts (IDC, Gartner, Forrester, etc.).
Planetary Society
Leading nonprofit space advocacy group. "Outer space,
not inner space."
Practical Futurist
Technology futures weblog and conference keynotes (Michael
Rogers).
Probabilistic
Logic Learning
Tutorial on a major new automated machine learning tool, integrating
probability models with first-order logical or relational
representation languages (L. De Raedt, K. Kersting)
Red
Team Racing (Carnegie Mellon Robotics)
Blog for CMU's autonomous Hummer, Sandstorm.
Society for Artificial Intelligence
and the Simulation of Behavior
The U.K.'s largest A.I. society. London A.I. mailing list
(U. Sussex).
Strategic Futures International
Long range forecasting, strategy, planning for industry, institutions,
and govt.
Strategy Analytics
A leading employee-owned international research and consulting
firm in the information, communication, and entertainment
technology industries.
Technology Foresight
Center
Part of the United Kingdom's Foresight Program. Providing
challenging visions of the future to ensure effective strategies
now.
Technology
Futures
Consulting for market and business implications of technological
change, with special experience in IT (John Vanston, Austin,
TX)
TunnelBuilder.com
Leading portal for the world's tunnelling industry. Expect
underground urban automated highway and parking systems by
mid century. (Mike Smith)
World
Energy Council (WEC)
Leading research consortium exploring the supply and use of
energy worldwide.
Technology Roadmapping
Centre for
Technology Management, Institute for Management, University
of Cambridge
Top U.K. business school. Nice set of links
on technology roadmapping.
International Technology
Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS)
The leading global consortium for roadmapping semiconductor
devices. Fascinating reading.
Management of Accelerated
Technology Innovation (MATI), Kellogg School of Management,
Northwestern U. Kellogg is the #1 U.S. business school. Run
by Mike Radnor, Professor.
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Business, Economics,
and Development
| General
American
Academy of Actuaries (AAA)
Public policy and professionalism organization for U.S. actuaries.
American
Marketing Association
A leading source for information, knowledge sharing and development
in the marketing profession. 38,000 members. See also Silicon
Valley chapter.
American
Productivity and Quality Center (APQC)
Provides businesses with expertise in benchmarking and best
practices research.
Aon/Albert G Ruben
Innovative global insurance and long- and short-term risk
management.
ApproTec
Appropriate technologies for African enterprise development.
Bureau of Economic Analysis
(US Dept of Commerce)
Promoting understanding of the U.S. economy by providing timely,
relevant, and accurate economic accounts data.
Business Software Alliance
A piracy-fighting and cyber security consortium of key software
companies. Early internet immune system.
Center for
Regional Innovation
Advancing an innovation-based economic development model in
regional U.S. economies.
Cliometrics Society
Using historical data, economic theory, and statistical techniques
to study historical economic change, and inform the present
and future..
Comprehensive Crisis
Management
Pre-identification and management of human-created organizational
crises. In important example of applied futurism.
Corbett
and Associates
Leaders in global outsourcing consulting and education. Producers
of the Outsoucing World Summit. (Michael Corbett)
Council on Competitiveness
A leading business, academic, and labor forum for elevating
national competitiveness to the forefront of national consciousness
(Wash, DC).
Decision
Analyst
World-class market research and innovation (creative consumer
panels) services. (Arlington, TX)
Encore
Software (Bangalore, India)
Makers of the Simputer, a scalable, open source computing
platform used in India.
Ernst & Young
Leaders in accounting, tax, risk, technology, and human capital
services and consulting.
Foundation on Economic Trends
Lobbies for federal legislation, studies emerging trends in
science and technology and their impact on the environment,
economy, and society. Alarmist, utopian. (Jeremy Rifkin)
Glocal Vantage
Innovation, futures, and systems consultation for business,
nonprofit, and municipalities.
Graduates Club
Networking and learning group for MBAs and other business
professionals.
Harvest Plus
Breeding bioengineered crops for better nutrition in emerging
nations.
Human Resource Institute
(at the University of Tampa)
Human resources trends, issues, strategy, and futures.
IC2 Instititute (U Texas
at Austin)
(Innovation, Creativity & Capital). Devoted to accelerating
wealth and job creation at home and abroad.
Intellectual
Ventures
Nathan Mhyrvold's "Exponential Economy" IT R&D
and acquisition group.
International
Schumpeter Society
A German research center for evolutionary and developmental
economics, in the spirit of J. A. Schumpeter. 400 members.
International Society of Six
Sigma Professionals (ISSSP)
Promoting the advancement of Six Sigma efficiency and quality
initiatives in business.
iRobot
Creating realistic robotic solutions to real-world problems
(Colin Angle, Helen Greiner, Rodney Brooks)
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Milken
Institute
Focusing on the effects of economic, political, technological
and regulatory changes on the world economy and its societies.
National
Investment Banking Association
Regional and independent brokerages, investment banking firms,
and related capital market service providers.
National Venture Capital Association
Supporting entrepreneurial activity and innovation.
Nomura Research
Institute
Japan's leading IT consulting and systems solution firm.
NPD Group
Global consumer marketing research for manufacturers and retailers.
Plexus Institute
Improving the health of individuals, families, communities,
organizations, and the environment by helping people use concepts
in complexity science.
Project Management Institute
Project management’s leading global professional association
(100,000 members).
SAP
The world's largest inter-enterprise software company.
Six Apart
Leading low-cost tools for publishing weblogs (Randy and Mena
Trott)
Society of Actuaries
(SOA)
Leading professional society promoting methodologies for the
modeling and management of financial risk and contingent events.
Society of Competitive Intelligence
Professionals (SCIP)
Leading organization teaching the value of competitive intelligence
in forecasting and adapting to business change.
Society for Organizational
Learning
Achieving profit, equity, and sustainability in "learning
organizations." (Peter Senge et. al.)
Tower Group
World's leading research and consulting firm focused on trends
and issues in the global financial services industry.
United Nations
Millennium Project
Action plan to achieve the global Millennium
Development Goals.
VitalSmarts
Training solutions for helping individuals and organizations
to learn and practice better leadership, supervision, and
communication, and to improve individual and corporate ethics.
Wall Street Journal
Online
Excellent website for domestic business activities. Superior
coverage and analysis.
WGSN
Consumer and cultural trends and design inspiration for the
fashion industry.
World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO)
Promoting global use and protection of intellectual property.
Specialized agency of the U.N. (Geneva, Switzerland)
Analysts
JALA International
Telework, telecommuting, and applied futures research. Keynote
Systems
Measurement and monitoring services to improve internet and
e-business performance.
ON
World
Market research for emerging markets in wireless technology
(San Diego).
Themis Group
Online and interactive entertainment research group and consultancy.
Incubators
Idealab
Technology business incubator (Pasadena, CA | Bill
Gross)
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Governance, Peace,
Security, and Environment
| Action
Against Hunger (AAH)
Specializing in emergency situations of war, conflict, and
natural disasters.
Alidade
Information age consulting to defense and corporate clients
using complex systems, process innovation, and futures methodologies.
(Jeffrey Cares, David Jarvis)
American Evaluation Association
Assessing the strength and weaknesses of programs, personnel,
and technology. Great complement to futures studies.
Beyond War
A revitalization of the Beyond War movement of the 1980's
that had 24,000 participants in 23 states in the USA and worldwide.
Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace
Nonpartisan promotion of international cooperation and U.S.
engagement for peace.
Center for Energy
and Climate Solutions
Championing solutions to improve energy sustainability and
reduce greenhouse gases (Joseph Romm)
Center for Advanced Defense
Studies (CADS)
Promoting research, innovation and education in the fields
of information sciences, cognitive studies and global security.
Center
for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI)
Pioneering American
think tank on democratic issues from 1959 to 1987. Great archives
(Robert Hutchins).
Center for Nonproliferation
Studies (CNS)
The largest NGO devoted to curbing WMD proliferation, and
training grad students in nonproliferation studies. Part of
the Monterey Institute
of International Studies (MIIS).
Center for Strategic
and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
Research institute established to promote innovative thinking
about defense planning and investment strategies.
Centre for Counterintelligence
and Security Studies
Counterintelligence, counterterrorism and security training
and analysis. (David Major).
Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) and Center
for the Study of Intelligence (CSI)
The CIA conducts foreign intelligence, and their CSI conducts
public and private research on intelligence.
Computer TakeBack
Campaign
Aggressive NGO using anti-corporate public relations policy
to promote computer recycling (Robin Schneider)
Conservation International
Broad range of programs aimed at sustainability and maintaining
Earth's natural heritage.
Club of
Budapest
A systems theory-oriented community for improving sustainability
and "planetary consciousness." (Ervin Laszlo).
Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA)
The central research and development agency for the Department
of Defense.
Department of Homeland
Security (DSH) and Transportation
Security Administration (TSA)
DSH is tasked to organize the US to "secure the homeland"
from terrorist attacks. The TSA is chartered to protect the
nation's transportations systems.
Economic and Social Research
Council (ESRC)
The UK's leading research funding and training agency addressing
economic and social concerns. Business and public sector.
European
Commission's Forward Studies Unit, Institute
for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) (Spain) and
Foresight on
Information Society Technologies in Europe (FISTE)
Long range forecasting studies on European Integration and
Technology
Federal Forecasters
Consortium
Interdisciplinary group of governmental leaders seeking to
improve forecasting for public policy decisions.
Federation of American Scientists
and Project on
Government Secrecy
Monitoring government secrecy, the global arms trade and the
control of weapons of mass destruction. Inc
ForestEthics
Redirecting the U.S. marketplace toward more sustainable forestry
management.
Friends of the Earth
Network of grassroots environmental groups in 70 countries.
Founded in San Francisco in 1969 by David Brower.
Future Positive
(Synearth)
Sustainability-oriented approach to understanding accelerating
change. (Timothy Wilken)
Global Scenario Group (GSG)
Sustainability-oriented scenarios for world resource governance
(Paul Raskin).
Green Belt Movement
Kenyan and international movement for tree planting and women
and child empowerment (Wangari Maathai)
GreenMotion
Ideas, action, and partnerships to advance a green U.S. future
(Leah Thompson).
H.L. Stimson Center
Practical, nonpartisan, creative solutions to the problems
of national and international security.
Intnat'l Assoc. of Directors
of Law Enforcement Stds & Training (IADLEST)
Assist U.S. states in establishing effective and defensible
standards for employment and training of law enforcement officers.
International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA)
Main nuclear nonproliferation enforcement group. Multinational,
U.N. independent.
International
Crisis Group (ICG)
Field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and
resolve deadly conflict.
International
Energy Agency (IEA)
Formed in 1974 by OECD members, to prevent a repeat of the
oil shock of 1973-4. The world has been dramatically more
conservation oriented since, even as global energy use continues
to grow slower every year since. (Humans, vs. the
ever more energy-efficient technologies we create, are becoming
a saturated planetary computational substrate).
National Defense Industrial Association
(NDIA)
An all volunteer industrial-government network driving the
future of defense through education, access, and influence.
National Science
Board
Legislative and executive advisory body. Established by congress
in 1950. NSF director is on the board.
NESTA FutureLab
(Nat'l Endowmt for Sci, Tech & Arts)
Leveraging IT to accelerate educational innovation (United
Kingdom)
Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)
Working to reduce the global threat from nuclear terrorism
and weapons proliferation (Ted Turner, Sam Nunn)
Ocean Alliance
Dedicated to the conservation of whales and their ocean environment
through research and education (Roger Payne).
OpenCongress
Very nice transparency platform for congressional bills, senators,
representatives, committees, etc. Start of collaborative democratic
feedback.
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Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Thirty member countries sharing a commitment to democratic
government and the market economy. Active relationships with
70 other countries.
Overseas Private Investment
Corporation (OPIC)
Innovative USG agency that helps US businesses invest in emerging
markets by providing loans and risk insurance, in support
of US foreign policy and global development. Has earned a
profit since its inception in 1971.
Police
Futures International
Law enforcement, criminal and social justice, and the future
of the policing profession.
Policy Futures
Forecasting political change using voting and utility models
(Stanley Feder, Alan Schwartz)
Population Connection
Education and advocacy to reduce global population to sustainable
levels (formerly Zero Population Growth).
POST Command
College (California)
Training law enforcement for the challenges of the future.
President's
Council on Bioethics
Anti-interventionist biotechnology advisory body for the Bush
administration. "We don't need human interventions beyond
therapy."
Pugwash
Interdisciplinary conferences on science, social responsibility,
and world affairs.
Search for Common Ground
Fostering independent radio stations and peaceful conflict
resolution in 15 countries. 30% funded by USAID.
Sierra Club
America's oldest and largest (700,000 members) grassroots
environmental organization. Often acceleration-unaware.
Technology
Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce
Maximizing technology’s contribution to economic growth,
high-wage job creation, and the social well being of the United
States. Includes NIST, NTIS and OTP.
U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID)
U.S. foreign assistance for disaster recovery, escaping poverty,
and democratic reform.
U.S.
Air War College
Strategic thinking about security, warfighting, sci-tech policy,
counterproliferation, leadership, innovation, and futuring.
U.S.
Army Criminal Investigation Command
Investigative services for Army, including computer crimes
and cyber security.
U.S. Army War College
Preserving peace by the study of national defense and effective
command.
U.S. Dept. of Education. National
Center for Educational Statistics (NCES)
The primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data
related to education.
U.S. Dept. of Transportation.
Intelligent Transportation
Systems
Using advances in information technologies and electronics
to improve our nation's transportation network.
U.S. Energy Information
Administration (EIA, DoE)
Providing data, forecasts, and analyses to promote sound policy
making, efficient markets, and better public understanding
of energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment.
U.S.
House Committee on Science
Jurisdiction over non-defense federal scientific research
and development. Since 1958.
U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP)
DC-based nonpartisan think tank doing studies on peace, conflict
resolution, democracy and development.
U.S. National Telecommunications
and Information Administration (NTIA) (DoC)
The President's principal adviser on telecommunications and
information policy issues.
United Nations
World's main international governance discussion group. Frequently
visionary but also very politicized, bureaucratic, and often
ineffectual.
UN
Global Compact
Bringing companies together with UN agencies, labor, and civil
organizations to support nine principles in international
human rights.
UN
ICT (Info and Communications Technologies) Task Force
Help harness the power of information and communication technologies
for advancing the global development goals of the Millennium
Declaration (particularly, halving the number of people living
in extreme poverty by 2015).
UN ITU (International Telecommunications
Union)
Helping governments and the private sector coordinate global
telecom networks and services.
World Conservation Union (IUCN)
World’s largest and most diverse conservation network
(Gland, Switzerland).
World Court (International
Court of Justice)
Legal arm of the U.N. The U.S. sometimes ignores its findings,
as it is still influenced by countries that have not developed
modern legal standards.
World Economic Forum (Davos,
Switzerland)
International organization where the world's corporate and
opinion leaders discuss world economic development and global
citizenship.
World Privacy
Forum
Non-partisan research, advocacy, and consumer education in
the intersecting areas of technology and privacy.
World
Social Forum
Annual meeting of the anti-globalisation (or more charitably,
sustainable globalization) movement to coordinate world campaigns.
World Technology Evaluation
Center (WTEC)
Cutting edge international technology assessment studies.
NBICS, simulation, etc.
World Trade Organization (WTO,
Geneva, Switzerland)
Global international organization dealing with the rules of
trade between 146 member nations.
World Wildlife Fund
Promoting biodiversity, renewability, and the reduction of
pollution and wasteful consumption.
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Political and Public
Policy NGOs
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Left
of Center
American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Defending individual rights and liberties through work in
courts, legislature, and communities.
Americans for
Democratic Action (ADA)
Nation's oldest independent liberal political organization.
Brady Center to Prevent
Gun Violence
Helping greatly to create a post-gun society.
Campaign for America's
Future
Progressive
agendas for corporate accountability and political change.
Center for
Ecoliteracy (Fritjof Capra)
Reconnecting children to the natural world to promote sustainable
communities.
Center for American
Progress
Promoting liberal public policies of strong government, strong
defense, more protected and regulated enterprise, extended
social programs, and individual welfare.
Center for Constitutional
Rights (CCR)
Leading legal institution of the progressive movement.
Center for Digital
Democracy
Preserving the openness and diversity of digital communications
and public interest programming.
Earth Institute
(at Columbia University)
Sustainability in science and public policy.
Economic Policy Institute
Wide ranging education and research promoting fair living
standards and prosperous economies.
Fabian
Society
British Labour Party think tank, historically advocating slow
change in social systems.
Foundation
for National Progress
Social justice reporting (Mother Jones).
Greenpeace
Environmental and go-slow technology activism.
Institute for
Policy Studies
Oldest U.S. multi-issue progressive think tank.
Institute for Public
Policy Research
Britain's leading progressive think-tank.
Metafuture.org
Global, multicultural, and macrohistorical futures perspectives.
Academic (Sohail Inayatullah, Ivana Milojevic).
National Network of Grantmakers
Social justice network, not a funding agency.
Natural Resources Defense Council
(NRDC)
Aggressive pro-environmental activism.
New College of California
Educational university with training in social advocacy.
Nuclear Control Institute
Significantly more alarmist than IAEA.
Nuclear Policy Research
Institute
Dr. Helen Caldicott's nonproliferation group.
People for the
American Way
Litigation and action for civil liberties.
PolicyLink
Working to advance policies to achieve economic and social
equity.
Progressive Policy Institute
Seeking to modernize progressive politics and government for
the information age.
True Majority
Collaborative social justice project (Ben Cohen).
United for a Fair Economy
"The richest 1% own 38%, the poorest 40% own 0.2%."
Advocates of economic democracy.
Urban Institute
"Social security will fail in 2041." Singularity
unaware.
War Resisters League
Antimilitarism and Ghandian nonviolence advocates.
World Future Studies Federation
Multicultural, inclusive, moderately anti-West, anti-technological.
Worldwatch Institute
(and Earth Policy Inst.)
Global assessment, environmental sustainability and social
justice.
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Centrist
American
Enterprise Institute
Advocating limited government but with interventionist foreign
policy and strong defense.
Annenberg Public Policy
Center (at U. Penn)
Media, communication, and public policy research.
Brookings Institute
Oldest and largest U.S. nonpartisan public policy research
institute.
Center for Media and Democracy
Improving democracy by promoting citizen-developed media,
including SourceWatch and Congresspedia wikis.
Center
for Public Integrity
Monitoring the abuses of the lobbying industry, the little-known
and lightly-regulated "fourth branch" of government.
Center for Strategic and International
Studies (CSIS)
Nonpartisan think tank focusing on strategic insights and
policy solutions to current and emerging global issues (John
Hamre, Sam Nunn). They run the excellent Seven
Revolutions 20 year futuring program (Erik Peterson).
Center on Philanthropy
(at Indiana University)
Improving the understanding and practice of voluntary giving,
association, and action.
Center for Responsive
Politics
Nonpartisan group that tracks money in politics and its effect
on elections and public policy.
Citizens for Global
Solutions
Building peace, justice and freedom through local activism
with national and international institutions.
Civitas
Think tank for the study and improvement of civil society
(UK).
Committee for Economic Development
(CED)
Independent, nonpartisan organization of business and education
leaders dedicated to policy research on major economic and
social issues. 60 years old.
Committee
to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy
A community of CEOs improving corporate giving.
Judicial Watch
Nonpartisan reform of the legal and judicial systems. Watchdogs
monitoring government corruption and nontransparency of all
types.
Institute for International
Economics
Analysis and solutions for key international economic problems.
Meridian Institute
Nonpartisan collaboration, mediation, and assessment services.
National
Institute on Media and the Family
Improving the impact of mass media on children through research,
education, and advocacy.
Network for Good
Leading national e-Philanthropy site, helping improve voluntary
community activity.
New America Foundation
Independent, nonpartisan public policy institute focused on
leaders under 40, using venture capital and discourse.
Public Knowledge
Advocating a fair and balanced approach to copyright and technology
policy.
Resources for the Future
The leading centrist U.S. environmental, energy, and natural
resource analysis group. Since 1952.
Social Welfare
Research Institute (Boston College)
Studying wealth, philanthropy, spirituality, and other dimensions
of cultural life "in an age of affluence."
World Bank
World's leading international development bank. Pro-technology,
acceleration-unaware.
World Resources Institute
Sustainability, economic development, information access,
social equity.
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Right
of Center
American League of Lobbyists
(ALL)
Professional organization representing special-interest political
lobbying.
Center
for Genetics and Society
Bioconservative, anti-IGM (inheritable genetic modification)
public policy org.
Center for Technology
and National Security Policy
Examines technological innovation for U.S. national security
policy and military planning.
Council on Foreign Relations
(CFR)
Independent, national membership organization for foreign
policy analysis and recommendations.
Discovery Institute
Free-market policies and regional development (Northwest U.S.)
Heartland Institute
Market-based approaches to environmental protection and public
services and regional development (Midwest).
Heritage Foundation
Promoting conservative public policies of limited government,
strong defense, more globalized and free enterprise, limited
social programs, and individual liberty.
Hoover Institution
Promoting freedoms, private enterprise, and representative
government.
Independent Institute
Fostering government reform, entrepreneurial innovation,
and liberty.
Manhattan Institute
Improving economic choice and individual responsibility in
civic society.
National Rifle Association
Defenders of the individual right to bear arms. Rapidly becoming
anachronistic in our increasingly transparent society. Expect
mandated networked lethal and nonlethal defensive weapons
to replace today's anonymous gun sales within a generation.
National Taxpayers Union
Advocates of simplifying federal and state tax codes that
have become an unjustifiable sink of human effort.
Pacific Research
Institute
Championing free-market policy and personal responsibility
and regional development (Northern CA).
Progress & Freedom Foundation
Market oriented policy think tank studying the digital revolution.
Reason Public Policy
Institute
Promotes choice, competition, and dynamic markets.
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Up
Wing (Acceleration-Aware) Left
ETC
Group
Technology assessment and regulation, corporate technological
control.
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Up
Wing (Acceleration-Aware) Centrist
Electronic
Frontier Foundation
Maintaining civil liberties in an increasingly digital world.
Long Now
Foundation
Promoting very long term individual and cultural thinking.
Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars (WWICS) and Foresight
and Governance Project
President Wilson was the only U.S. president with a Ph.D.,
who believed public service and scholarship should be unified.
Acceleration-aware "policy dialog in a Moore's Law World."
(David Rejeski)
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Up
Wing (Acceleration-Aware) Right
Cato
Institute
Technology aware but unrealistically libertarian at times.
The late Julian Simon was a Cato Senior Fellow.
Ethics and Public Policy Center
(EPPC)
Connecting "Judeo-Christian moral tradition" and
the public debate over domestic and foreign policy issues.
Hudson Institute
Appreciates the crucial role of technology in accelerating
progress. Founded by the late Herman Kahn.
Center for Bioethics
and Culture
Christians advocating biotechnological policy debate.
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Philanthropies
| Film
Pacific
Pioneer Fund
Awards to emerging documentary filmmakers in nonprofit
organizations.
Roy W. Dean
Film and Video Grants
Funding socially valuable unique small film productions. L.A.
and N.Y.
General
Alfred
Mann Foundation
Developing innovative bionic solutions for medical disabilities.
Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation
Grants for higher education, museums, performing arts, population,
environmental conservation, and public affairs.
Annenberg Foundation
Improving communication, education, culture, the arts, and
civic life.
Arnold and Mabel
Beckman Foundation
Grants to non-profit institutions to promote cutting-edge
research in chemistry and life sciences. Beckman was the world's
leading science philanthropist, and a 20th century renaissance
man.
Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation
Initiatives in global health, education, public libraries,
and local support for at-risk families.
Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching
Policy center strengthening teaching and learning in America's
colleges and schools.
Cisco
Systems Foundation
Integrating effective information technology into community
organizations.
David and Lucile Packard
Foundation
Providing grants in conservation and science, population,
children, families, and communities.
Ford Foundation
Major source of grants to "strengthen democratic values,
reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation
and advance human achievement."
Foundation
for the Future
Support for envisioning the long and very long term future.
GE Foundation
Programs to create quality education, especially for underrepresented
groups.
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Focusing on major health care issues facing the nation.
Horatio Alger Assocation
and Awards
Annual list of America's most distinguished business success
stories. $5 million annually in college scholarships.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation
Individual fellowships (average grant, $37K) for advanced
professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences,
humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts.
Lasker
Foundation
Supporting innovation in medical science. Lasker awards.
Lawrence Foundation
Supporting educational, environmental, health and other causes
(Jeff Lawrence).
Legler Benbough
Foundation
Improving civic life for San Diego and the U.S.. Funded the
Center for Ethics in Science and Technology at UC San Diego.
MacArthur Foundation
Supporting security, sustainability, community and human development,
public interest media, and unrestricted MacArthur Fellow grants.
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Markle
Foundation
Accelerating communications media and information technology
development to improve civic life.
National Science Foundation
U.S. government agency promoting the progress of science and
the nation.
Noyce Foundation
Strengthening K-12 math and science and other high-leverage
content education.
Omidyar Network
Helping
people discover their own power to make good things happen
(Pierre Omidyar)
Open Society Institute / Soros
Foundations Network
Promoting open and democratic societies by global initiatives
in education, media, public health, human and women's rights,
social, legal, and economic reform.
Paul G. Allen Foundations
Funds IT in K-12 education, medical research, music, arts,
and conservation.
PEW Charitable Trusts
Information, policy solutions, and support for the improvement
of civic life.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Promoting active living and health for all Americans.
Russell Sage
Foundation
Principal U.S. foundation for social sciences research. Future
of work, society.
Skoll Foundation
Advancing systemic change around the world by investing in,
connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs (Jeff Skoll).
Sloan Foundation
Major support for research, history, and education in science
and technology, and the impact of technology on society.
Templeton Foundation
Support for debate and empiricism at the boundary between
theology and science.
Time Warner Foundation
Improving youth literacy for school, work, and community.
Turner Foundation
Improving water, toxin remediation, energy, transportation,
population, and habitat.
Waitt Family Foundation
Creating better futures for communities, bridging the digital
divide.
Wallace Foundation
Improving education leadership, arts participation and out-of-school
learning.
W.M. Keck Foundation
Supporting medical research, science, engineering, and higher
education.
Regional
(Los Angeles and CA)
Durfee Foundation
Strengthening community service nonprofits in Los Angeles
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Social, Education,
Ethics, and Global Compassion
| Alliance
for Excellent Education
Promoting U.S. middle school and high school transformation
to make it possible for every child to graduate prepared for
postsecondary education and success in life.
American
Creativity Association
Improving creativity, innovation, problem-solving, and ideation
in personal and professional environments.
American Philosophical Practitioners
Association (APPA)
Offering philosophical and ethical couseling, moderating socratic
dialogs, improving workplace culture.
American
Sociological Association
Advancing sociology as a scientific discipline and profession.
14K members.
American
Teilhard Association
Continuing investigation of the developmentalist world view
described by paleontologist and theologian Pierre Teilhard
de Chardin.
Amnesty International
Working impartially to protect human rights worldwide. 1.8M
members.
Ashoka: Innovators for the
Public
A global association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs
in emerging nations. Started by former McKinsey consultant
Bill Drayton.
Aspen Institute
Fostering leadership development, appreciation of timeless
ideals and values, and nonpartisan analysis of contemporary
issues.
Audience
Dialog
Dennis List's audience research and futures consultancy (Adelaide,
Australia)
Camp Amelia
Creates open-source ed. software and provides free after-school
and summer computer camps for youth and teachers in underserved
communities. Teaching kids technological literacy.
CARE
Empowering individuals and families in the poorest communities
in the world.
Center for Ethics in Science
and Technology (UC San Diego)
Resources for understanding the ethical implications of new
developments in science and technology. (Lawrence Hinman)
Center
for Science and Medical Journalism (Boston University)
Producing scientifically proficient and ethically grounded
journalists.
Center for
Human Emergence
Applying spiral dynamics for global transformation (Don Beck).
Center
for the Study of Technology and Society (Wash DC)
Social implications of technological innovation (Adam Keiper)
Chaordic Commons
Creating practical, innovative orgs that blend competition
and cooperation to address critical social issues (Dee Hock).
Committee for Democracy in
Information Technology
Brazil-based international nonprofit working to end "digital
apartheid" in the developing world.
Consumer
Reports
Objectivity and accuracy in consumer product recommendations
since 1936.
Context Institute
Researching issues in creating humane sustainable culture.
Council for Advancement and
Support of Education (CASE)
Serving advancement professionals at 3,000 schools. Awards
for nation's best teachers.
Council for Research in
Values and Philosophy (CRVP)
Investigating the way culture and values influence personal
action.
Davidson Institute for
Talent Development
To recognize, nurture and support unusually intelligent young
people and to provide opportunities for them to develop their
talents to make a positive difference.
Degree Confluence Project
Early world mapping. Shows the extreme sparseness of humanity
on the planet.
Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres)
Providing medical aid where most needed worldwide, championing
the plight of the medically indigent.
Education Sector
Nonprofit, independent educational policy think tank and research
group.
Foundation
for a Better Life
Public service announcements (billboards, TV ads) promoting
values-based living.
Foundation for Global
Community
Future-oriented spiritual growth, social action, and conflict
mediation.
Friendship
Force International
Breaking global barriers by building personal friendships.
60 countries, 275 orgs.
Galef Institute/Different
Ways of Knowing
Research-based tools, services, and partnerships that improve
broad based (science and arts) child development.
Games2Train
Developers of serious games (educational games) for military
and commercial purposes (Marc Prensky)
Hastings Center
for Bioethics Research
Exploring questions in health care, biotechnology, and the
environment since 1969. Examining their 35 year history one
realizes these technology areas, while important to our present
quality of life, will nevertheless provide far fewer accelerating
benefits than infotech in coming years.
History Shots
High quality visual information graphics presenting historical
dynamics (politics, technology, etc.).
Human Rights Watch
Challenging governments and other power groups to end abusive
practices and respect international human rights law.
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Innocence
Project
(Northern
CA and Southern
CA)
Reversing occasional cases of improper functioning of the
policing and prosecutorial systems, primarily using DNA evidence.
Institute for Future
Studies (Austria)
Focusing on selected topics in the future of education and
work.
Institute
for Regional Education (IRE)
Makers of the Quatsi film trilogy on the nature of technology.
Very acceleration-aware. (Godfrey Reggio, Ron Fricke)
International Federation of
Red Cross
World's largest humanitarian organization, helping refugees,
victims of natural disasters, victims of poverty from socio-economic
crises, victims of health emergencies.
JD Power and Associates
Providing consumer satisfaction information for help with
the buying decision (autos, electronics, etc.) since 1968.
Lawyers Without
Borders
Supporting the work of NGOs and advancing the rule of law
worldwide.
League for Innovation in the
Community College
Catalyzing the community college movement.
Malaria Vaccine Initiative (of PATH)
Accelerating development and distribution of promising malaria
vaccines worldwide. Funded by the Gates Foundation.
Massive Change and
Institute
Without Boundaries
A long term project on the future of multidisciplinary global
design culture. Affiliated with Toronto City College. (Bruce
Mau)
MediaRights.org
Helping media makers to use documentaries to explore key social
issues.
Omidyar Network
Helping people discover their own power to make good things
happen (Pierre Omidyar and associates).
Online Ethics Center for
Engineering and Science (Case Western U)
Providing researchers with resources for understanding ethically
significant problems that arise in their work. NSF funded.
On the Horizon
Informing educators about the challenges that they will face
in a rapidly-changing world (James Morrison)
Oxfam International
Finding solutions to poverty, suffering, and injustice in
100 countries worldwide.
Pegasus Communications
Leading publisher of books on systems thinking and general
systems analysis.
Poynter Institute
A think tank and school for journalists, future journalists,
and journalism teachers.
Programme for Appropriate Technology
in Health (PATH)
Improving global health by advancing technologies, strengthening
systems, and improving behavior. Funded by the Gates Foundation.
Project for Excellence
in Journalism (Columbia University)
Research, resources, and ideas to improve the fourth estate
(media, journalism).
Point Foundation
Publishers of Whole Earth magazine, Whole Earth
Catalog. Icons of 1960's and 1970's vision of a self-empowered,
personally creative, green, globally responsible future. Currently
insolvent.
Prospective
Foresight Network
French Node of the Glenn/Gordon Millennium Futures Studies
Project (Saphia Richou, Michel Godet).
Rick Ross Inst. for the
Study of Destructive Cults, Controversial Groups, & Movements
Database of information about cults, destructive cults, controversial
groups and movements. Well-organized public resource on poorly
transparent, coercive groups.
Society for Utopian
Studies (SUS)
Academic center studying utopianism in all its forms (literary
to experimental) (U. Toronto).
Southern
Poverty Law Center
Exposure of and litigation against hate speech and racial,
sexual, and other forms of intolerance.
SustainUS
U.S. youth network for sustainable development.
ThinkCycle
MIT Media Lab non-profit initiative exploring "open collaborative
design." (Boston, MA)
Thomas Lucas Productions
Producers of science educational video, and the commendable
PBS futures documentary, Beyond
Human (2001).
United Nations Children's
Fund (UNICEF)
Promoting health, education, equality, and protection for
every child, worldwide.
United Nations Educational,
Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
A "laboratory of ideas" and a standard-setter to
forge universal agreements on emerging ethical issues among
192 UN Member States.
United Nations World
Food Programme (WFP)
Pursuing the UN's Millennium Development Goal of halving the
proportion of hungry people in the world by 2015.
World Game Institute
Simulated earth system for classroom play. Bucky Fuller's
original idea. Expensive and non-computer based.
Zero to Three
The nation's leading educational resource for the first, most
critical years of human development.
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Health, Mind, and
Spirit
| American
Federation for Aging Research (AFAR)
Funding anti-aging research nationally. Promoting careers
in geriatric medicine.
Blue
Mountain Center of Meditation
Books
and retreats on meditation and self-aware living (Eknath Easwaran)
EraNova Institute
Improving mind and consciousness in an era of accelerating
technology (Dick Swanson)
Immortality Institute
An online community formed to advance the fight against involuntary
death.
Institute on Religion
in an Age of Science (IRAS)
Seeking to bring human values and religious practice into
the modern age. For those having an interest in religion,
philosophy, and the natural and social sciences (Star Island/Portsmouth,
NH)
Life Extension Foundation
Funding supplement and life extending medical research. Publishers
of Life Extension magazine.
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Metanexus
Research, education, and outreach on the engagement of science
and religion.
National Institute of Aging
(NIA)
NIH center dedicated to anti-aging research funding.
Positive Psychology
Center
Research and publications on positive psychology, learned
helplessness, depression, optimism and pessimism (Martin Seligman).
The New Farm, Rodale Institute
Resource for small farms, community supported agriculture,
and organic farming.
World
Database of Happiness
Scientific research on the subjective evaluation of life.
Columbians and Costa Ricans, earning 1/5 the income ($7K vs
$35K/year), self-express as "happier" than Americans
with their lives. A function of the interplay between goals,
resources, and cultural influences on self-expression.
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Emerging
Futures Organizations
Institutions,
Consultancies, Websites — Some May Be Overly Acceleration-Optimistic
(in their Short-Term Outlook)
| Accelerating
Future
Exploring philosophical, moral, and societal implications
and opportunities of expected highly disruptive near-future
technologies (Michael Anissimov).
BetterHumans
Emerging futurist and transhumanist news coverage. (Simon
Smith, George Dvorsky).
Future
Technology Advisory Group
NBIC technology futures. Currently missing the S (social),
including both social limitations on human augmentation, and
physical limitations of biological processing abilities. (Jeff
Medina) |
Lifeboat
Foundation
Encouraging scientific advancement and helping humanity survive
existential risks.
Singularity
Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Essays and projects on artificial intelligence and transhumanism.
Believes "Friendly AI" can be designed by a small
group of committed individuals (Brian Atkins, Eliezer Yudkowsky).
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Other
Lists of Future-Oriented Organizations
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Consultancies
Wayne
Boucher's List
Strategic Futures International (Washington, DC)
University
Courses
Reed
Riner's List
Northern AZ U., Dept. of Anthropology. (Flagstaff, AZ)
Roger
Caldwell's List
U.
of AZ, Dept. of Soil, Water, and Environmental Science (Tucson,
AZ)
Tom
Lombardo's List
Rio Salado Coll., Dept. of Psychology, Philos., Integrated
Studies (Tempe, AZ)
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Websites
4 2 Explore's
List
Intro links to futurists, 'futurology,' and scenarios.
Future Human Evolution
Introductory survey of transhumanist themes.
Joe Coates,
Futures Resources & Web Links
Organizations, university programs, govt sites, publications.
Great list.
Royal
Netherlands Acad. of Arts & Sciences - Global Foresight
Studies
Global, national, and regional technology and general foresight
studies.
Web
Catalogs
Google
Directory's List (web catalog)
Society > Future > Organizations
Open
Directory's List (web catalog)
Society: Future: Organizations
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Futures
Resources
•
Statistics
and Rankings
Statistical
Studies
50 Facts That Should Change the World (book)
Excellent introduction to some of the most shocking abuses and
inequities in need of global resolution (Jessica Williams, 2004)
Gapminder
Swedish NGO making beautiful free software for visualizing global
development (growing and shrinking gaps) using U.N. data. Updating
screensaver available.
Grove
David Sibbet's graphical, facilitation, and meeting consultancy.
Experts at visualizing change (San Francisco).
Worldometers
Simple, memorable dynamic presentation of key world statistics. |
Ranking
Studies
World
Competitiveness Center and Yearbook
Comprehensive annual national competitiveness rankings by
a leading international business school (IMD). Since 1989. |
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Scenarios,
Trends, and Forecasts
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Competitions,
Prizes, Outreach Programs
| High
School
Cosmos
Advanced mathematics and science pre-college program for the
University of California.
FIRST
Robotics Competition
Shows students the promise of technological fields and that
the basic concepts of science, math, engineering, and invention
are exciting and interesting. (Dean Kamen, DEKA)
Future Lab
A high school "future science and technology" tour,
co-produced by James Canton, Institute for Global Futures
and iHigh, a leading high school events marketing co.
Future Problem Solving Program
(FPSP)
Annual competition rewarding futures thinking in high school.
Over 250,000 students annually participate in the program
internationally. Since 1974.
Global School Net
Promoting online collaboration and futures thinking for high
school students since 1984.
Intel Science Talent
Search
America's oldest and most highly regarded pre-college science
contest. $100K 1st Prize, $20K 2nd, $5K 3rd.
Junior Achievement
A nonprofit movement that reaches 4 million K-12 youth helping
them to use and understand free enterprise, business, and
economics to improve the quality of their lives
National Youth
Leadership Forum on Technology
Annual ten day event mixing top high school students, educators,
and industry professionals.
Odyssey of the
Mind
International educational program that teaches creative problem-solving
through friendly, team competitions for students from kindergarten
through college. Thousands of teams from the U.S. and 25 other
countries participate annually. Since 1978.
University
IEEE and International MicroMouse Competitions (UC
Davis, etc.)
Very small student-built robots run mazes for minimum times.
Started in 1970's. Many unconnected events run annually in
North America and the U.K.
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Adult
Benjamin
Franklin Awards
Started in 1824, the oldest and most prestigious annual awards
in Science and Technology.
International
Fire Fighting Robot Contest (Trinity College, Hartford
CT)
A leading, affordable open-entry robotics contest. Small,
smart robots extinguishing candles. Fun!
RoboCup
The best annual robotics competition. The goal: "By 2050,
fielding a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that beat
the world's best soccer players." Annual soccer playing
competitions in multiple robotic classes.
Shell
/ The Economist International Writing Prize (Annual)
$20K 1st Prize, $10K 2nd, $5K 3rd. 2,000 words. Announcement
March, Deadline in August. "Encouraging thinking about
the future." (So far, only narrow consideration of accelerating
technological change).
Turner
Tomorrow Award (1991 only)
"Best future-oriented novel providing positive solutions
to global problems."(Ted Turner)
$500K first prize: Daniel Quinn's Ishmael.
Runner-ups: Sara Cameron's Natural
Enemies, Andy Goldblatt's The
Bully Pulpit, Janet Keller's Necessary
Risks. (Primarily environmentalist and spiritual themes.
Not deeply futurist novels.)
World Food Prize
Annual award for the person who does the most to increse the
quantity, quality, or availability of the world's food supply.
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Weblogs
| Accelerating
Future
Intriguing reporting from the transhumanist frontier (Michael
Anissimov)
A Thousand Tomorrows
Panopticon's incisive and integral blog on foresight and futuring
(Belgium).
Brian Johnson's Zaadz
Blog
Brian Johnson's CEO-blog on Zaadz, a social change network.
Broader Perspective
Insights into personal, societal, and technological transformation
(Melanie Swan).
IFTF's
Future Now
Alex
Pang's blog on the future of technoly, health, and organizational
change.
Integral Singularity
(old
blog). New
blog.
Lion Albaugh's vision for a balanced, human-championing approach
to biology-surpassing technological intelligence. Great title.
Kevin Kelly
Cool Tools
Any extraordinary book, gadget, software, video, map, hardware,
material, or website that is tried and true.
KurzweilAI.net's
Accelerating Intelligence News
Ray Kurzweil's updates on leading-edge and bleeding-edge tech
advances.
Lessig Blog
Lawrence Lessig on building the creative commons, a user-centric
cyberspace.
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Medgadget
Internet journal of emerging medical technologies. Nicely
futuristic.
Minding
the Planet
Nova Spivak's thoughts on the emerging high-tech planet.
Next Nature
Exploring how culture and technology are becoming autonomous
(Koert Mensvoort, Netherlands)
Oligopoly Watch
Charting the rise and influence of MNC oligopolies globally.
Insightful.
Open The Future
Cultural observations from a leading professional futurist
(Jamais Cascio)
Ross Mayfield's Weblog
Thoughts on markets, technology, and digital culture.
SIAI Blog
Seeking asooner, safer transition to generalized artificial
intelligence (Tyler Emerson)
Speculist
Thoughtful reporting on positive trends and future developments
(Phil Bowermaster)
The Future of Things
Community blog on AI, longevity, technology, futurism, etc.
(Iddo Genuth, Israel)
WorldChanging
Alex Steffen's blog on ways to create a "bright green"
future.
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Web
News Portals — Daily and Weekly
| Astrobiology
Magazine
Good online coverage of the latest news in this exciting field.
Corante
Top level tech and business news, customized and filtered.
Digg
Technology focused news site where the stories are chosen
by community members rather than editors.
Dropping
Knowledge
Enables the global public to ask and answer questions, exchange
ideas, and start initiatives around the most pressing issues
of our time (Germany and US).
Memeorandum
Auto-generated
news summaries drawing on experts and pundits, insiders and
outsiders, media professionals and amateur bloggers.
New
York Times Online
Excellent website for popular coverage of sci-tech. Tuesdays:
Science, Thursdays: Technology.
TechNewsWorld
Good daily e-business and technology news. .
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PsycPort
APA's daily psych/cog sci research and treatment advances
Science
Daily
Nice daily lay science summaries.|
Slashdot
Leading daily geek culture site.
Slate
MSN's daily news portal. Good local news summaries, reader
commentary.
Technorati
A real-time search engine tracking the blogosphere.
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Web
News Portals — Monthly and Annual
| Acceleration
Watch
Systems theories and models of universal and local accelerating
change (John Smart).
Astrobiology
Magazine
Good online coverage of the latest news in this exciting field.
Edge
ESRC's thrice annual magazine of UK social science research
and policy ideas.
Edge.org
Leading site for deep social, technological, and scientific
commentary (John Brockman).
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First
Monday
Peer reviewed monthly commentary on the internet and society.
Nanotechnology
Now
Good coverage of the emerging nanotechnology sector (Rocky
Rawstern).
Now
with Bill Moyers (PBS)
Excellent in-depth discussions of politics, economy, community,
health, culture.
Terra Nova
Expert discussion of the evolution of synthetic/virtual worlds.
The Future of Things (TFOT)
Good Israel-based community blog on the future of AI, medicine,
displays, storage, nanotech, futurism, etc. (Iddo Genuth).
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Newsletters
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Audio
and Video
| Conference
Calls
Yi-Tan
(Conversations about Change). Tech, business, and society,
every Monday. (Jerry Michalski and Pip Coburn)
Free
Podcasts
Accelerating
Change
2004 at IT Conversations
Free audio downloads of our 2004 conference.
Apple iTunes Download
For Mac and Windows. The best tool for podcast aggregation.
IT Conversations
Excellent interviews on tech, business, and social implications
of emerging and future IT (Doug Kaye)
Science and
Society
Great weekly reports on scientific research (David Lemberg)
Audio
(Free and Pay)
Audible
Audio versions of books, magazines, radio shows. Pricey but
good selection.
Books on Tape
Great source for unabridged versions of lesser known books.
Closer
to Truth (and PBS
Site)
leading
scientists, scholars and artists debate the fundamental issues
of our times (Robert Lawrence Kuhn). |
Video
and ITV (Free and Pay)
BigPicture.TV
Experts, thinkers, and activists in environmental and social
sustainability.
Beyond
Human
Good layman's overview of the increasingly intimate interface
between human and machine (2 Episodes, 120 mins, PBS, 2001)
Closer to Truth
(and PBS
Site)
leading
scientists, scholars and artists debate the fundamental issues
of our times (Robert Lawrence Kuhn).
Fora.TV
Early-stage (2007) intelligent ITV venture. "Discourse,
discussions and debates on the world's most interesting political,
social and cultural issues." Promising.
Now (PBS)
"One of the last bastions of serious journalism on network
television." Great investigative reporting, democracy-building
approach. (Bill Moyers to 2006, David Brancaccio after)
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Books
•
Periodicals
—
Sci-Tech, Academic and Professional
Focus
Areas: Artificial
Intelligence, Astrobiology, Biologically Inspired
Computation, Complexity Studies, Computational Autonomy, Cosmology,
Evolutionary Development, Forecasting, Futures
Studies, Science and Technology Studies,
Systems Theory
| Complexity
Bi-monthly, serious cross-disciplinary journal on the rapidly
expanding science of complex adaptive systems.
Complexity
International
A referreed journal dealing with the generation of complex
behaviour from the interaction of multiple parallel processes.
Monash University (Australia)
Cybermetrics
e-Journal of scientometric, bibliometric and informetric
research, with emphasis on the Internet. CINDOC (Madrid, Spain)
Developmental
Science
Research advances in human developmental cognitive neuroscience.
Endeavour
(UK)
Classic quarterly on hist&philos of science. Est 1942.
Foresight:
The Internat'l Journal of Applied Forecasting (IIF)
Applied forecasting design, management, model building, case
studies.
Futures:
The Journal of Forecasting, Planning, and Policy
Broad coverage of medium and long term futures trends and
scenarios.
Futures Research Quarterly
Referreed journal of transdisciplinary futures research. Uneven,
sometimes excellent. World Future Society (Bethesda, MD)
IEEE Intelligent
Systems
Good bimonthly reporting
on real-world developments in AI.
IEEE
Robotics and Automation
Broad quarterly coverage on practical robotic and automation
technology applications.
Information
and Organization
Understanding the relationships between information technologies
and social organization, and the social construction of IT.
Information Society
Impacts, policies, system concepts, and methodologies related
to information technologies and changes in society and culture.
Innovation:
The European Journal of Social Science Research
Science and technology futures and innovation articles.
InterJournal
Refereed journal on complex systems. New England Complex Systems
Institute (Cambridge, MA).
International
Journal of Astrobiology
Coverage includes cosmic prebiotic chemistry, planetary
evolution, the search habitable zones, extremophile biology,
experimental simulation of extraterrestrial environments,
life detection in our solar system and beyond, intelligent
life and societal aspects of astrobiology. Cambridge U Press.
International
Journal of Forecasting
(IIF)
Quantitative and occasional qualitative forecasting methodologies.
International
Journal of Systems Science
Quantitative and qualitative methods for performance and reliability
engineering for a range of autonomous and intelligent systems.
Journal of Advancing Technology
University of Advancing Technology's journal on technology
studies and the social dimensions of advancing technology.
Journal
of Documentation
Scholarly articles, research reports and critical reviews
in the information sciences.
Journal
of Dynamical and Control Systems
Leading journal of mathematical analysis of dynamical systems
and geometrical control theory.
Journal of Evolution and
Technology
Peer-reviewed e-journal on contemporary research into future
science and philosophy. World Transhumanist Association (Willington,
CT)
Journal
of Forecasting
Multidisciplinary coverage of the forecasting profession:
theoretical, practical, computational and methodological.
Includes operations research, management science, decision
analysis, statistics, and economics.
Journal of Futures
Studies
Tamkang University's journal on foresight, forecasting, long-range
planning, visioning and futures research.
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Journal
of Memetics
Evolutionary models of information transmission. Principia
Cybernetica Project (Brussels, Belgium)
Journal
of Nonlinear Science
Applying nonlinear science and math to engineering, geophysics,
physics, and astronomy. Springer-Verlag.
Journal
of Prediction Markets
Publishing articles on every aspect of the study of Prediction
Markets.
Journal
of Robotic Systems
Basic and applied research on the analysis, design, realization,
and use of robots, robot components, and robot systems. Emphasis
on robot system design and integration.
Journal
of Scientific Exploration
Investigation of speculative and anomalous subjects usually
ignored by science. Since 1987.
Journal of World Systems
Research
Scholarly research relative to the analysis of world systems.
UC Riverside/UC Santa Cruz.
Manufacturing Automation
Canada's leading industrial automation magazine.
Metascience
Covering history of science and technology (HoST) philosophy
of S&T (PoST), and science, technology and society (STS)
disciplines.
Nanotechnology
Perceptions
Technical issues and social implications of nanotech and ultraprecision
engineering. Collegium Basilea in Basel, CH.
R&D
Management (Blackwell)
Articles address the interests of both practicing managers
and academic researchers in R & D and innovation management
Research Technology
Management
Covering industrial innovation, from R&D, through product
development to marketing.
Science,
Technology, and Human Values (STHV)
Journal of the society for the social studies of science (4S).
Speculations
in Science and Technology
Speculative papers on physical, math, biol, med and engrg
sciences. Pub. to 1998.
Systems
Dynamics Review
Applying system dynamics (modelling, simulation, feedback
systems) to societal, technical, managerial, and environmental
problems.
Systems
Research and Behavioral Science
New theories, experimental research, and applications relating
to all levels of living and non-living systems. A classic
systems theory journal.
Technology
Analysis & Strategic Management (Taylor & Francis)
Analysis and assessment of technologies, their potentialities
and impacts, and the development of methodological tools to
identify and analyze key scientific and technological developments.
Technological
Forecasting and Social Change
The methodology and practice of technological forecasting
and future studies as planning tools. Excellent futures/forecasting
emphasis.
Technology
and Culture
Quarterly interdisciplinary journal of the Society for the
History of Technology.
Technometrics
A journal of statistics for the physical, chemical,
and engineering sciences. Improving quality and understanding
of the manufacturing and development processes. American Statisical
Association.
Theoretical
Biology
Leading forum for interdisciplinary theoretical papers that
give insight into biological processes.
Time
& Society
Journal for the transdisciplinary study of time and temporality
(Barbara Adam).
Trends in
Ecology and Evolution
The most exciting current research in all aspects of ecology
and evolutionary biology, from molecular to global.
World
Futures: The Journal of General Evolution
Study of system-structuring, evolutionary and developmental
change in nature and society. Promotes the transfer of evolutionary
models from the natural to the social sciences.
Zygon
Focuses on questions of meaning and values that challenge
individual and social existence today. Joins physical, biological,
and social sciences insights with ideas from philosophy, theology,
and religious studies. Seeks to unite what may often become
disconnected: values with knowledge, goodness with truth,
religion with science.
See also:
Amazon's Magazines:
Science and Technology: Professional & Trade
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Periodicals
—
Sci-Tech,
General Interest
Focus
Areas: Big Picture perspectives on science and technology, and their
social applications
| American
Heritage of Invention and Technology
Unparalled
coverage of American history of technology. Great writing,
beautiful photos. (Forbes)
American
Scientist
Sigma Xi's
Bimontly Magazine (Frosh: Join this
Society!). Great Book Reviews.
Catalyst
Magazine of the Union of Concerned Scentists. Data-backed,
conservative sustainability policy.
Semi-annual.
Dataquest India
Covering IT development in the emerging Indian outsourcing
market.
Discover
Award-winning general
interest science and technology reporting.
IEEE Spectrum
Flagship publication of the Inst. of Electrical and Electronics
Engrs. Good engineering coverage.
Information
Society Journal
Good broad coverage of sociocultural
impact of IT.
Issues in Science and Technology
Public policy in science, engineering, and medicine. Using
science for social goals. NAS quarterly.
Leonardo
Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences,
and Technology.
Make: Technology
On Your Time
Celebrating
your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your
own will (O'Reilly Publishers).
Natural
History
Very accessible coverage
of natural history, including new theories of evolutionary
development. Famous debate in December-January 1998 issue
between Simon Conway Morris and Stephen Jay Gould about evolutionary
convergence (developmental convergence, in alternative language).
Nature
The leading British newsmagazine
of science. A bit more accessible than Science.
New Scientist
Science and technology
coverage, with a speculative edge. Sometimes implausible,
often intriguing.
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New
York Times
Excellent popular coverage of sci-tech. Tuesdays: Science,
Thursdays: Technology.
Probe
Pro-science investigative
reporting promoting science, rationality, and democracy.
Psychology Today
Good popular, intro-level discussion of psychological sciences
and their applications.
R&D Magazine
Leaders in covering the world of research and development.
Commercial and institutional.
Science
The top weekly newsmagazine
of science. A bit heavy on specialist language.
Science News
Weekly digest of research
findings in science and medicine. Short, accurate. 75 year
history.
Scientific American
The traditional benchmark
in science reporting. Nice, technical focus, with top authors
Seed: Science
as Culture
Very hip. Explores the deep ideas, personalities, and cultural
effects of science.
TRN: Technology Research
News
Covers breakthroughs at
University, Government, and Corporate Labs.
Technology Review
The leader in technological
innovation reporting. Exemplary future awareness.
Wired
The digerati's
culture, opinion, and technology magazine. Trendy, excellent
future focus.
Utopian
Studies (Dept. of English, U of AK)
Scholarly articles on a utopianism, utopian theory, intentional
communities. Biannual.
See also:
Amazon's Magazines:
Science & Nature and Magazines:
Computers & Internet
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Periodicals
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Business
Focus
Areas: Business, e-Commerce, Economic Development, Entrepreneurship,
Information Systems
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Advertising
Age/American Demographics
Market research and consumer trends insights.
Business
2.0
Introductory coverage of the new economy. Breezy writing,
poor science knowledge.
Business Ethics
Real-life management and
policy dilemmas, socially responsible solutions.
Business Week
America's leading business news magazine. Comprehensive, great
writing, good analysis.
Chief Executive
Broad, high level analysis of corporate management, innovation,
and growth issues.
Chief Learning Officer
Covering the new workforce e-Learning and employee training
technologies.
CIO
Great information technology coverage. Senior level, accessible.
Contingencies
Magazine of the American Academy of Actuaries. Good data-backed
forecasting models and process.
Darwin
Information technology and leadership strategy for executives.
Smart.
Economist
Best weekly news and business
analysis for top execs and opinion leaders. Great international
coverage. Quarterly technology review.
Fast
Company
Discovering the new rules of business in a world of accelerating
efficiency and innovation.
Forbes
Personalities
and issues of modern business. Good future trend exploration.
Fortune
Innovative business ideas,
wide and deep business coverage, sophisticated writing.
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Harvard
Business Review
National and global management
thought and practice, analyzed by top scholars and executives.
Inc.
Small business resources for the entrepreneur.
Information Week
Excellent broad converage of commercial events in the information
economy. News over analysis.
International
Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development
Fosters
discussion of both technological innovation and new ways of
thinking about the complex and contested issues of sustainable
development. Nice balance between the two great political
forces, innovation and sustainability.
Inventor's Digest
Leading magazine for developing, protecting, and marketing
your new idea.
Journal
of Business Forecasting
Practical analysis and skill development for business-forecasting
practitioners.
KM World
Leading magazine for content, document, and knowledge management
issues. Future focused.
Long Range Planning
A leading international journal of strategic management, aimed
at senior managers (UK).
OR/MS Today
Operations research and the management sciences. "The
science of better."
Red Herring
Business of technology
reporting. Insider and strategic focus.
Strategy + Business
Best U.S. business strategy quarterly. Strong foresight focus.
Supply
Chain Management Review
Art and science of moving goods to market. SCM automation.
Reed.
Wall Street Journal
Best daily newspaper of domestic business activities. Superior
coverage and analysis.
See also:
Amazon's Magazines:
Business & Finance
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Periodicals
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Sociopolitical and Humanist
Focus
Areas: Aesthetics,
Culture, Education, Environment, Governance, Health, History, News,
Mind, Recreation, Relationships, Society, Spirit
| Adbusters
Media
manipulation and corporate coersion
exposes. Anti-WTO, anarchist sympathies.
American
Heritage
Excellent American history, mostly domestic (Forbes).
American Prospect
Liberal philosophy, politics,
and public life. Intelligent and complex.
Annual Review of
Political Science
Good monthly overview of political science advances.
Atlantic
Winner of more National
Magazine Awards than any other U.S. monthly. Excellent, socially
relevant articles.
Audubon
Environmental issues and
problems, ecology, conservation, and technology.
Canadian
Dimension
A comprehensive, activist-oriented,
non-U.S. produced social justice magazine.
Covert Action
Quarterly
Liberal coverage of U.S.
intelligence activity and global geopolitics.
E Ò The Environmental
Magazine
Inspirational and empowering
coverage, encouraging personal activism.
Extra!
Journal of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). Good
domestic media criticism.
Future
Publication of the University of Phoenix, one of the fastest
growing educational enterprises in the U.S. Addresses social
and career issues.
Futurist
Top futures-related scenario
and scanning magazine. Reasoned global and technological optimism.
Harpers
Award-winning, socially relevant magazine. Often as good as
Atlantic.
Insight
Conservative weekly investigative
reporting on Washington,
nation.
Intelligence
Report
Magazine of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Actively exposing
and litigating against cultural intolerance nationwide.
Mother Jones
Alternative, award-winning,
provocative social justice reporting.
Nation
Critical social analysis,
politically independent, solutions oriented. Since 1865.
National Journal
Weekly nonpartisan newsmagazine about American politics and
government, written for political and policy professionals.
$1800/year, but free academic access.
National
Geographic
Premiere geocultural
survey magazine. Strong, accessible historical insights and
analysis.
National Review
Conservative political
commentary, insight, and news reporting.
New Internationalist
Covers global development issues from an international and
social justice perspective
New Renaissance
Progressive
articles on the future of society, from a humanist, holistic
perspective.
New Republic
Top conservative/centrist
opinion magazine, with good writing and new ideas (not always
practical).
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Newsweek
Concise
but generic reporting of weekly news. Even more surface-level
than Time. Annual technology review.
New
York Times Magazine
Good metropolitan issues, current events, and futures coverage.
On
the Horizon
International quarterly on the future of postsecondary education.
Peacework
News, analysis,
and resources magazine dedicated to nonviolent social change.
Prevailing
Winds
Good social justice, political
scandal, crime, hidden history reporting.
Progressive
Strong analytical voice
for peace and social justice, with activist interviews. Enlightening.
Reason
Nation's leading libertarian
analysis, intelligent, great alternative to liberal/conservative
fare.
Spirituality
and Reality: A Global Journal
Integral perspective on our
emerging global civilization. Left and U.N.-oriented.
Time
Insightful but basic analysis
of important events. 30 million subscribers.
US
News and World Report
Good issue and trend following
at the national and international level.
Utne
Reader
A guide for balanced living.
More than 2,000 alternative media sources.
Weekly Standard
Popular weekly journal
of Washington
politics and opinions, with a future focus.
What is Enlightenment?
Blend of ancient and modern thinking on spiritual and moral
potential. Future aware.
World Press Review
English reprints of top
news and editorial articles from the foreign press.
Yes! A Journal
of Positive Futures
Left-oriented community,
sustainability, and practical optimism tools, ideas, and commentary.
Z Magazine
Progressive analysis,
commentary, and humor on politics, economics, culture.
See also:
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Conferences
—
U.S.
| Accelerating
Change
Multidisciplinary issues and challenges of accelerating technological
change. (Sept)
ACM SenSys
Systems issues in the emerging area of embedded, networked
sensors.
AlwaysOn:
Innovation Summit
Delivering communication, content, and commerce to consumers
24/7. (July)
Abscicon
(Astrobiology Science Conference)
The leading conference for multidisciplinary insights in astrobiology.
American Association for Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI) Conference
A leading multidisciplinary AI community. (July)
American
Sociological Association Annual Conference
Advancing
sociology as a scientific discipline and profession. (Aug)
Association
for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Conference
Leading U.S. computational linguistics conference. CUI
here we come!
Austin Game Conference
Leading multiplayer game developers conference.
Brainstorm/Fortune
Fortune magazine's annual gathering on business, technology,
and world affairs.
Breakthrough
Technologies for the World's Biggest Problems
Arlington Institute conference (Apr)
Business 4Site
One of the leading technology summits for business solutions
(Ziff-Davis). (June)
CEBIT
The leading global IT conference. 500,000 attendees! A truly
planetary phenomenon. Hannover, Germany.
Comdex
Leading U.S. consumer electronics technology marketplace conference.
(Nov)
Consumer Electronics Show
(CES)
A major consumer electronics trends conference. Includes Enabling
Technology Forums (Jan)
Demo
Annual technology demonstration prototypes show. Cutting edge.
(Feb)
Digital Hollywood
Popular entertainment and technology convergence conference.
Getting memes to the masses.
Doors of Perception
Doors prioritises social needs over technology-push on the
agenda of design and innovation. Annual international conferences.
Emerging Technologies Conference
at MIT
Near term future of science and technology. (Sept)
European Futurists
Conference
Networking futurists, analysts, scientists, and long-term
decisionmakers in Europe. (Nov)
Federal Forecasters
Conference
Interdisciplinary consortium of governmental leaders seeking
to improve forecasting for public policy decisions.
FOO Camp
Friends Of O'Reilly. IT developers and world improvers. Wireless
in Tents. (Oct)
Foresight
(Regents University)
Conference on foresight and futures thinking for spiritual
leaders. Ecumenical, but Christian-focused.
Foresight
Conference on Advanced Nanotechnology
Near and long-range risks and benefits of nano and technological
futures. (Oct)
Future In Review
(FiRe)
A leading technology and business futures conference for tech
leaders. Strategic News Service (Mark Anderson) (May)
Future Forward
New England emerging technologies and business summit. Invite
only.
Future Trends/IIR
IIR's annual market trends and business futures conference
(Nov).
Game Developers Conference/Serious
Games Summit
(Mar)
Genetic
and Evolutionary Computing Conference (GECCO)
Near term future of today's first generation self-evolving
computers. (June)
Gilder/Forbes
Telecosm Conference
Future of computers, networks, and new technologies.
Go!
Outsell's annual IT futures conference. (Sept)
Going
A conference on sustainable transportation and the future
of transportation.
Gnomedex
Using IT technology for business, career, and personal life.
Geek culture!
Health
Care Forecast Conference
Annual political and economic forecasts for U.S. health care
industry (Feb).
Idea Festival (Oct)
Exploring innovation from an interdisciplinary perspective
(Louisville, KY)
INFORMS Annual Conference
Leading U.S. conference on operations research and management
science.
International
Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva
Largest annual international invention conference. 1000 often
silly inventions, 55,000 attendees. Started 1972.
International
Symposium on Forecasting
Annual gathering of the world's leading forecasting researchers
and practitioners.
Joint Statistical
Meetings (JSM)
The largest annual gathering of statisticians in North America.
Management of Change
Using information technology to improve citizen services and
e-Government.
Medicine
Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR)
Premier forum for computer scientists and physicians who develop
and refine advanced, data-centered tools for clinical care
and medical education.
Metanexus
(Science and Religion in Context)
Interdisciplinary dialog on the convergence of science and
spirituality.
MODSIM World
For the international modeling and simulation community (business,
industry, academic, governmental).
NBIC
Convergence Conference
Future of Nano, Bio, Infotech, and Cognitive Science (NBIC).
(Feb)
New Yorker
Conference
Theorists, designers, economists, philosophers, ethicists,
animators, inventors, musicians, entrepreneurs, philanthropists,
scientists, artists, politicians, engineers, financiers musing
on the near-term (5-10 year future).
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NextMed
Broad ranging, multidisciplinary exploration of the future
of medicine. (Shaun B. Jones MD)
O'Reilly
Emerging Technologies Conference
Near term future opportunities for information technology.
(Mar)
Outsourcing
World Summit
Leveraging the global economy to advance business and technology
(Feb)
Performance
Measurement for IT in Government
How to maximize the performance of IT investment in large,
bureacratic organizations. (Jan)
Planetwork
IT networks, interdependence, social activism, and environmental
agendas.
Pop!Tech:
The Camden Technology Conference
The impact of technology on people and culture. (Oct)
Portland Internat'l
Conference on Mgmt of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)
Topics in E&T management. TF&SC-affiliated,
Portland State U.-affiliated.
Pugwash
Conference on Science and World Affairs
International conferences on science, social responsibility,
and disarmament.
Push Conference
Culture, commerce, technology, art, science - and their intersection.
Future-oriented. (Cecily Sommers)
ROBOlympics
Annual robotic competitions of all types. San Francisco, CA.
RoboNexus
Largest business, development, education, and consumer event.
(Oct)
Shmoocon
Leading East Coast hacker and 'technology exploitation' convention.
Siggraph (ACM)
Premiere computer graphics and interactive techniques conference.
(July)
Society for
the Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference
Oldest and largest scholarly association devoted to understanding
science and technology. (Oct)
Solutions
for a Shrinking Planet
Conference of Engineers for a Sustainable World. Innovative
development in emerging nations. (Sept)
SpeechTEK
Leading U.S. forum for speech tech products, applications,
and solutions. (Feb)
Supernova
Exploring the decentralized communications, IT, software,
and media future. (June)
National
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Includes the Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Conference (July)
National
Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment
Research and policy on topical issues in environmental policy.
Neural Information Processing
Systems (NIPS)
Leading machine learning conference. Great applications. (Dec)
State of Play
Leading conference on emerging legal issues in virtual worlds.
New York Law School (Oct)
SXSW (South X SouthWest's Southwest
Music and Media Conference)
Leading music, film, and interactive media event. Austin,
TX.
Systemics,
Cybernetics, and Informatics
Systems theories for understanding planetary and technological
futures.
Technosapiens
(CBC)
CBC Christians engaging transhumanists in technological futures
discussion.
TED
Expensive ($4K) invite-only conference on global trends in
technology, entertainment, and design.
Telluride
Tech Festival
Celebration of the past, present, and future of technology.
The Next Twenty
Years (TNTY)
Long range futures in technology, energy, biotech, and medicine.
(Orgs only).
TransVision
Exploring the use of science and technology to overcome human
limitations.
Web 2.0 Conference (O'Reilly)
Emerging business and technology developments on the web.
Winter Simulation
Conference
Advanced academic and industry discussion of simulation for
automation, scheduling, risk analysis, security, education,
and other apps.
Wired's NextFest
Wired's look at how technology and creativity interact to
make the future. (June)
Wonderfest
Annual science popularizing debate series. San Francisco Bay
area. (Nov)
World Conference on
the Future of Science
Top thinkers, great themes, tremendously insightful. Venice,
Italy (Sept)
World Future Society
The oldest and best known international futures conference.
(July).
World Innovation Forum
(HSM)
Expensive ($2K) bicoastal executive conference on innovation
trends (April & June)
World Nano-Economic
Congress
Premiere intersection of thought leaders in nanotechnology
and business.
World Summit on the Information
Society
Seeking to maximize the effectiveness of information and communications
technologies in global socioeconomic development (UN ITU produced).
World
Technology Summit
Multidisciplinary association of scientists and technologists
creating new technologies and business processes. Invitation
only. (Oct)
World
Telecommunications Development Conference (ITU)
International policy for closing the global digital divide.
(Organizations only.)
See also
this list of Acceleration-Relevant
Conferences.
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Conferences
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International
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Academic
Programs —
U.S. and International
Interested
in the formal study of trends, scenarios, long-range planning,
change management, visioning, and other methods of foresight
development?
See
ASF's page, Futures
Studies - Programs and Resources
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Ongoing
Research Studies
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U.S.
| Human
Development
National
Children's Study
Multiagency longitudinal study examining environmental influences
on health and development of 100,000 U.S. children from before
birth to age 21. First data in 2008.
Pew Internet and American
Life Project
Exploring the impact of the Internet on families, communities,
work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic
and political life. See also their Internet
Predictions Database, joint project with Elon University.
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Pew
Research Center for the People and the Press
Independent opinion research group that studies attitudes
toward the press, politics and public policy issues.
Trends
in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)
Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics.
Ranking of math and science skills of U.S. youth relative
to other countries. Every four years, started in 1995 (next
in 2007).
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Research Tools and Databases
| Free
CIA
World Factbook
Authoritative source for country estimates, updated annually.
Congresspedia
Community-developed citizens encyclopedia wiki on congress
FedStats
Statistical data from over 100 U.S. agencies, and by topic.
Google
Your best link to the emerging digital universe. Try all the
cool beta sites.
Google Scholar
Search scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources,
including theses, books, etc.
Library of Congress (Online
Catalog)
The place to look up LC classification systems for any book
for your home library, even if it isn't on the inside cover.
Use the LCC number to arrange your home library. Look it up
here, see what else with a similar title you are missing!
Even more extensive than Amazon's database (for now at least).
NLM Gateway/Medline
National library of medicine. Vast database of health, nursing,
and biomedical science research.
Sourcewatch
Community- developed wiki on public relations firms influencing
public policy.
U.S. Census
Bureau's Statistical Abstract of the United States
Authoritative statistics on the social, political, and economic
organization of the United States. 125 years.
Web
of Science/Science Citations Index
Track any paper and see who else has referenced it since publication.
Surf the memespace of idea evolution. Free access only at
major research libraries.
Wikipedia
The largest online collaborative encyclopedia.
Yahoo
Good broad coverage. Valuable groups, free access ideals.
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Subscription
Hundreds of subscription databases can be accessed at any
large university or public library. Here are a few:
ABI/INFORM
A database covering business, management, economics and related
fields. Journals, magazines, dissertations, newspapers, etc.
ProQuest.
JSTOR
Rapidly growing online database of multidisciplinary and
discipline specific journals. Insitutitional access, limited
individual access.
LexisNexis
Comprehensive legal, news, business and public record information.
PsycINFO
An abstract (not full-text) database of psychological literature
from the 1800s to the present.
ScienceDirect
Largest fee-based electronic collection of science, technology
and medicine full text and bibliographic information. Elsevier.
Scopus
Large abstract and citation database of research literature
and quality web sources. Elsevier.
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Other Futures Resources
Nonprofit
Resources
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Nonprofit
Support
| Association
of Fundraising Professionals
Advancing philanthropy through education, training, and advocacy.
Association of Small
Foundations
Helping small foundations with growth and management.
California
Association of Nonprofits (CAN)
Membership and services org. for 1,700 California nonprofits.
Dues start at $60.
CalTech/MIT Enterprise
Forum
Encouraging growth and success of tech-based entrepreneurial
ventures in Southern California (Pasadena)
Catchpole
Experts in speaker program management for tech companies.
(Terry Catchpole)
Center
for Nonprofit Management (CNM)
Free library, resource center, and programs. (Peter Manzo;
Los Angeles, CA)
Compass Point
Membership and services org. for Northern California nonprofits.
CompuMentor
Technology assistance for community based organizations and
schools (Bay Area).
Council on Foundations
M embership organization providing leadership expertise, services,
and networking for 2,000 grantmaking foundations and giving
programs worldwide (Wash, DC).
Craig's List San Francisco
Bay Area
Great local comunity bulletin board. Low cost IT and other
tech services from independent professionals.
Craig's List Los
Angeles
Great local comunity bulletin board. Low cost IT and other
tech services from independent professionals.
Foundation Center
Resources for helping grantseekers and grantmakers do more
effective philanthropy.
Foundation Source
Number one provider of support services for U.S. private foundations.
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GuideStar
The leader in providing comprehensive data on more than 1.5
million nonprofit organizations, connecting them with donors,
foundations, businesses, and governing agencies in a nationwide
community of giving.
Los
Angeles Business Technology Center
The largest tech business incubator in Southern California.
Los
Angeles County Economic Development Corporation
To attract, retain and grow businesses and jobs in the eighty-eight
cities of LA County.
Los Angeles Venture Association
(LAVA)
Premeire venture capital association in Southern California.
National
Committee on Planned Giving
Professional association for fundraisers for nonprofit organizations.
NetSquared
Helping non-profits understand, use and expand the social
web (SF Bay Area).
Network for Good
The leading e-philanthropy site where individuals can donate,
volunteer and get involved with the issues they care about
through nonprofit organizations.
Nonprofit Technology Enterprise
Network (NTEN)
Largest
network for NTAPs (Nonprofit Technology Assistance Providers)
in existence.
Pasadena Angels
Venture capital and entrepreneurship society.
Pacific Council on
International Policy
To promote better understanding and action, by the private
and public sector in the western United States and around
the Pacific Rim, in addressing a rapidly changing world. Western
partner of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Pacific
Rim Chamber of Commerce
Promoting trade and industry between U.S. businesses and Asia.
(Los Angeles, CA)
Plugged In (East Palo
Alto)
Computer training and entrepreneural development for underprivileged
teens. Focuses on web design skills at present.
Program
Related Investments (PRI) Directory
Leading source of social entrepreneurship loans to the nonprofit
sector.
TechSoup (San Francisco)
Connecting nonprofits with donated and discount digital technology.
Volunteer Center
of Orange County
Resource center for nonprofit organizations in Orange County.
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Nonprofit
Entrepreneurship
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Web and Business Tools
| Dropload.com
Free uploading of 100MB or less files, with email sent to
those you want to retrieve it. Good for seven days.
Free
Conferencing
Free teleconferencing (up to 35 online) and notification system.
Excellent quality.
Google Docs and Spreadsheets
Free collaborative word processing and spreadsheets. Support
Google Office!
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TinyURL
Handy website for generating unique short URLs from long ones.
Firefox should integrate this in their next browser!
SocialText
Low cost, great value enterprise social software Wiki. Fast,
do-it-yourself collaborative workspace.
Time
Zone Converter
For making telephone calls across multiple timezones.
Webuploads.com
Free video and image hosting. Protects free speech rights
much better than the big corporate options (GooTube, etc.).
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Computer
and IT Service
| Bay
Area Computerman
(San Jose)
New and used, PC and Mac. Very flexible small independent
shop.
Bay Computer Repair
(San Francisco)
Full spectrum independent computer repair and IT training
services.
In Ticketing
Leaders in low cost online ticketing and support for events.
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Mac
Enthusiasts
(Los Angeles, CA)
10600 W Pico Blvd. 818.345.7541. New and used, very friendly
service.
MacHollywood
(Hollywood,
CA)
6605 Sunset Blvd. 323.957.9557. Audiovisual specialists. Excellent
Mac service.
Rightway
Computers
(Kolkata, India)
Support, personnel and solutions provider.
Small-scale outsourcing of your IT needs.
Tony's PC Parlor
(Torrance,
CA)
22753 Hawthorne Blvd. 310.791.5135. Excellent service and
competency.
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Tech-Related
Educational/Social/Networking Groups
| Association
for Computing Machinery
The world's oldest and largest educational and scientific
computing society.
Association
of Personal Computer User Groups (APCUG) California
Monthly user groups in various cities. Part of your social
network for IT learning.
Bay Area Future Salon
(Palo Alto and San Mateo)
Monthly futurists, deep thinkers, and change leaders. Hosted
by Mark Finnern.
Caltech/MIT Enterprise
Forum
Encouraging the growth and success of tech-based ventures
in Southern CA.
Dorkbot SoCal
New media and tinkering group. "People doing strange
things with electricity".
Emerging
Technology SIG: Software Developers Forum (Palo Alto)
To talk about technologies that aren’t quite here yet,
to discuss trends in software technologies, and, in general,
to examine what’s coming down the pipeline.
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Long
Now Foundation Seminar Series
(Fort Mason, SF)
Top thinkers monthly. Intended to build a coherent, compelling
body of ideas about long-term thinking.
Los
Angeles Regional Technology Alliance (LARTA)
Connecting people, technology, and capital to manage technology
innovation.
Santa
Barbara Technology Group
Technology business incubator and central coast networking
events (TechBrew).
Software Council of Southern
California
Helping So Cal's software and information technology companies
be more successful.
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