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Houston Futures Scanning Hits- 7.05.2011
Rare Earth metals are of vital importance to technological devices, and China has stood firmly in a monopoly of them for years. Newly found metals [...]
A Framework for Thinking about the Future
One of the more useful frameworks we've adopted at the University of Houston's Futures Studies program was the was the one we developed for our Thinking about the [...]
Houston Futures Scanning Hits- 7.02.2011
You Knew It Was Coming: Introducing HackerLeaks! Is There A Completely New Way To Set Up Wireless Communications? 'Data Geek' Bill Tancer Says Social Networking [...]
The Foresight Tool Kit: Causal Layered Analysis
Thought it would be interesting to share an example of an application of one of the newer futures methodologies,Causal Layered Analysis (CLA), pioneered by futurist [...]
Houston Futures Scanning Hits- 6.30.2011
What Will Slow China's Electric Car Market Boom? Light Pollution May Be The End Of How We View The Heavens Futurist Glen Hiemstra's Future of [...]
Fareed Zakaria's Post American World
The future of the world economy according to Fareed Zakaria, the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and an editor at large for Time magazine, [...]
With Debt Limit in United States At Standstill, Chris' Take On Economy
To reduce debt you have to either raise taxes or cut spending. I say we do both. 1. Revenue increase In 1980, our debt was [...]
Houston Futures Scanning Hits- 6.27.2011
Using Silver Gel Pens to Draw Circuits With Electricity Google+: The search engine takes aim at Facebook Greece Austerity Measures Approved Amidst Violence Using Abundant [...]
Summer Beach Reading….For Futurists
Ah, summer, barbeques, loud festivals, and getting a tan at the beach. By judging the rest of our fair-weathered futurists out there, I'd say we [...]