Futurology, Future Studies
Foundation
for the Future, created to study the long term evolution of
humanity, towards the year 3000
- Joël de Rosnay's "Crossroads to the future" page
including a list of future-oriented web sites
- Connect with the Future: extensive lists of
future-oriented sites
- Futures web sites: another list
- Sasha
Chislenko's home page with a list of Great Thinkers and Visionaries, and articles on
future developments
- the Club of Rome
, the famous international think tank reflecting on our global
future
- OECD Futures
Programme
- A Magna
Carta for the Knowledge Age: Cyberspace and the American
dream, a "free market" view of the net, based on ideas from
Toffler, Gilder, Dyson and others.
- Essay on "Cyberocracy" by D. Ronfeldt
- John McCarthy's views on Progress and its Sustainability
- Robert Anton Wilson's Trajectories, the Journal of Futurism &
Heresy
- FutureWeb: Future Studies program at University
of Houston, provides a
Futures Resources Index
- the Swedish Institute for Futures Studies
- the Millennium
Project: a United Nations University think tank for global and
long-range forecasting; check the results of its global lookout panel.
- another Millennium Project, this time run by the UK Open
University, with a very comprehensive series of forecasts for the
21st century, produced by high level discussions involving
different organizations
- the World Future
Society and its journal "Futures Research
Quarterly"
- Greater Boston Chapter of the World Future
Society with many links on future-related web documents
- the Worldwatch institute
- Resources for Futures Research
- Plausible
Futures : a future oriented resource center with hundreds of
links
- Brain Food: Jay
Hanson's extensive collection of texts about the Earth's limited
carrying capacity and the dire effects implied by the tragedy of
the commons
- the library of the Future Institute website
Developing the Human Potential
- texts on
Transhumanism: a philosophy that seeks to extend human
capabilities to ever higher levels
- Transhumanism, futurology and analytic philosophy:
the Bostrom space
- the World
Transhumanism Association, offering a Journal of Transhumanism
- The
Extropian Principles, the Extropy Institute
and other
information about extropianism, a "transhumanist" movement
that shares many ideas with Principia Cybernetica, but puts more
emphasis on free market mechanisms and technological applications
for human expansion
- Hans
Moravec's home page with plenty of publications on a
robot-dominated future
- Life-extension: plenty of links on ways of
living longer
- Sci.life-extension: a newsgroup on methods for prolonging life, and its Archives with a FAQ
- Better
thinking with chemistry: an introduction and overview of
intelligence enhancing drugs
- Arcosanti: an
experimental town demonstrating the possible integration of
architecture with ecology ("arcology")
- Barbara Marx Hubbard's Foundation
for Conscious Evolution: a network for raising conscioussness
- Communications for a
sustainable future: a progressive network for social and
ecological issues
- The Venus
Project: aims to redesign culture for a sustainable future
- New Civilization Network: a "New Age" style
group working towards a better world
- Foresight
Institute: an organization formed to prepare society for
anticipated technologies, in particular nanotechnology, and Web
Enhancement software