- 100 Phenomena - http://www.linturi.fi/100_phenomena/index.html
Complete English text from the Finnish book "100 Phenomena" by Risto Linturi and Ilkka Hannula containing miniature scenarios for the years 2000 to 2020 illustrating what may happen in our future and how it will feel.
- Australia's Future - http://www.users.bigpond.com/smartboard/decline/civfut.htm
A prediction about the nature of the impending Republic of Australia.
- Social Fiction - S. Flor - http://www.social-fiction.de
Report from the year 2029: local markets have become an important complement to the established global economic system.
- Reflections Of A Changing Era - http://www.usdreams.com/ReflecChanging49.html
Reflections Of A Changing Era, The American Dream, by Jim Bickford.
- Super-intelligence: Essays on the Far Future - http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/MatrioshkaBrains/MatrioshkaBrains.html
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 - http://members.aol.com/allentough/fg.html
People of the future give advice on spiritual and political development. Excerpts from Dr. Allen Tough's book of the same title.
- Dr. Arthur B. Shostak - http://www.futureshaping.com/shostak/
Professor of Sociology, and futurist. Includes his essays and book reviews.
- Future's Edge - http://www.futuresedge.org/
Topics include world population, stem cell research, limits of science, climate change, and anthrax. Includes links to other resources.
- News for a Synergic Earth - http://www.synearth.net
A collection of discussions and articles focused on culture, systems thinking and how to create a more sustainable future.
- Digital Fracture - http://www.burcet.net/escenarios/second_fracture.htm
Articles related to decision makers lag and its economic and cultural consequnces.
- Saving the Future - http://savingthefuture.siteideas.net/
Suggests key changes that lead to an acceptable future. Offers articles and forum.
- Be Afraid - http://www.sageous.com/beafraid.html
Provides forecasts of scientific and social developments; tracks cutting edge technology like nanotechnology and genetics; offers insight into changes in near future lifestyles.
- Carfree City Design - http://www.priorities.org/carfree.htm
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.
- Innovation Watch - http://www.innovationwatch.com
Follows developments in science, technology, business, society and the environment and assesses their impact.
- Future Studies - http://www.future-studies.com/
Essays on change, the future of humanity, and transhumanism, by Nick Bostrom; archival site, no longer updated.
- Why the Future Doesn't Need Us - http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html
Article on how technologies, including robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech, are threatening to make humans an endangered species.
- Scenarios: The Red Herring Column - http://www.gbn.org/ColumnListDisplayServlet.srv?col=10
Contains several papers about various topics. Including Yucca Mountain, the uture of the economy, and broad band.
- Philosophy of Technology - http://home.comcast.net/~reillyjones/
Several essays centered on how the world will cope with humanity's natural drive towards cultural and physical speciation.
- The Collegiate Landscape of the Future - http://www.collegiateway.org/future/
The universities of the future won't be built around the Internet; they will be built around small residential colleges.
- The Sky is the Linit - http://author.senescence.info/thoughts/transhuman.html
A personal discussion of the most relevant and actual of the world's problems.
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