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Topia!: Society: Future: Essays (28)
Impact of Science and Technology on Society - Progressive side-effects of military, political, legal, religious, agricultural, economic and industrial processes attempting to appropriate a technology that may be far too sophisticated and powerful. Australia's Future - A prediction about the nature of the impending Republic of Australia. The Collegiate Landscape of the Future - The universities of the future won't be built around the Internet; they will be built around small residential colleges. Social Fiction - S. Flor - Report from the year 2029: local markets have become an important complement to the established global economic system. Reflections Of A Changing Era - Reflections Of A Changing Era, The American Dream, by Jim Bickford. Super-intelligence: Essays on the Far Future - Wide-ranging essays on our potential to create planet-sized Matrioshka Brains millions of times more intelligent than today's humans. A Message From Future Generations - People of the future give advice on spiritual and political development. Excerpts from Dr. Allen Tough's book of the same title. ROBOT: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind, by Hans Moravec - Additional figures and text for Moravec's book on the next six decades. A peep into Future - A journey to the future through our thoughts. The rate of changes in our society is sweeping. A speculation how the world is going to be in a few decades from now. Time of Change - The anonymous author ponders her fears for the future and the need for peace, understanding, and "a universal connection of souls." Dr. Arthur B. Shostak - Professor of Sociology, and futurist. Includes his essays and book reviews. Future's Edge - Topics include world population, stem cell research, limits of science, climate change, and anthrax. Includes links to other resources. News for a Synergic Earth - A collection of discussions and articles focused on culture, systems thinking and how to create a more sustainable future. Digital Fracture - Articles related to decision makers lag and its economic and cultural consequnces. Futurlogics a system of prospective thinking - Research method and a predictive model for dealing with the unknown. Manifesto for the Peoples of the Third Millennium - An outline of processes for developing progressive alternative societies. Saving the Future - Suggests key changes that lead to an acceptable future. Offers articles and forum. Why the Future Doesn't Need Us - Article on how technologies, including robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech, are threatening to make humans an endangered species. Be Afraid - Provides forecasts of scientific and social developments; tracks cutting edge technology like nanotechnology and genetics; offers insight into changes in near future lifestyles. The Sky is the Linit - A personal discussion of the most relevant and actual of the world's problems. Carfree City Design - Exploring the prospect of designing auto-less, sustainable communities with alternative transportation, renewable energy, pedestrian orientation, mixed-use zoning, fiber optics and recycling facilities in all units and other green features to aid in long-term quality of life survival. Consolidation for Social Awareness and Responsiblity - Compendium of research papers, scientific studies and learned opinions regarding issues that will have profound affect upon our children. Innovation Watch - Follows developments in science, technology, business, society and the environment and assesses their impact. Scientific American: The Bottleneck - A "state of the world" essay by E.O. Wilson calling for a vision of environmental sustainability founded on an environmental ethic linked to a long-term perspective; China's development as an example. Future Studies - Essays on change, the future of humanity, and transhumanism, by Nick Bostrom; archival site, no longer updated. The Human 3 Evolution - One page essay summarizing a work in progress which proposes achieving world security via application of technologies which detect lies. Future Studies: An Interdisciplinary Vehicle for Space Science Education - Essay on futures studies' use in the space science curriculum which includes example methods, suggested reading, and three futures course descriptions.
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