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Houston Futures Scanning Hits- 8.15.2011
Biotechnology continues to be a major growth sector for our world economic industry, but lost in the monetary promises are the benefits of increased interest [...]
Houston Futures Scanning Hits- 8.11.2011
Half of all men and one-third of all women in the US will develop cancer during their lifetimes. - American Cancer Society. The implications of [...]
Call to Foresight Practitioners: Publish, Please!
Part of my task in doing my dissertation on Integrating Foresight into Organizations for Leeds Metropolitan University is to review the foresight literature. I figured this was [...]
The Media Futurist: 100 Hundred Years Of Marshall McLuhan
"Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness. "Time" has ceased, "space" has vanished. We now live in a global village...a simultaneous happening." -Marshall McLuhan, The [...]
Houston Futures Scanning Hits- 8.8.2011
The problems with electricity and circuitry is it tends to get hot. Just set your laptop on your lap for a while. Diamond circuits move [...]
Houston Futures Scanning Hits- 8.5.2011
It's a completely ubiquitous form of transport that every country uses, but it's an unseen moving part: shipping and shipping containers. While terrorism and piracy [...]