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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 [...]
Something From Nothing: The Universe Begins And Questions Remains
As we come across more and more questions on what the universe can be, New Scientist's new issue hopes to tackle why we exist in [...]