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THE MEGA LIST OF FUTURE PREDICTION
RESEARCH CENTERS
Organizations · Research Centers · Think Tanks
The trend is clear that the major universities, international R&D centers, corporations R&D centers, governments, military industrial complex R&D centers, and great thinkers have and will continue to focus on “Futures Studies” as an interdisciplinary field, studying yesterday’s and today’s changes, and aggregating and analyzing both lay and professional strategies and opinions with respect to tomorrow. It includes analyzing the sources, patterns, and causes of change and stability in an attempt to develop foresight and to map possible futures. Around the world the field is variously referred to as futures studies, strategic foresight, futuristics, futures thinking or futuring. Futures studies and the sub-discipline strategic foresight are the academic field’s most commonly used terms in the English-speaking world, (Source http://www.wikipedia.org/).
Futurepredictions.com has assembled a current list for easy access of just a few of the leading centers which include:
- Singularity University
- Acceleration Studies Foundation
- Applied Foresight Network
- Association of Professional Futurists
- Club of Rome
- Global Business Network
- Global Scenario Group
- Hudson Institute
- Long Now Foundation
- Millennium Project
- NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts
- Project 2049 Institute
- RAND Corporation
- Tellus Institute
- The Arlington Institute
- The Venus Project
- World Future Society
- World Futures Studies Federation
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Technophilanthropist:
Today there are more than 1,400 billionaires and 93,000 “ultra-high-net-worth” individuals. Many of these are young, entrepreneurs who have made their money in technology and are interested in using that wealth to slay some of the world’s grand challenges. We call these individuals Technophilanthropists.
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Chapter 1: Our Grandest Challenge
Our Grandest Challenge – We open with the history of aluminum and the idea of technology as a resource-liberating mechanism, freeing us from the threat of scarcity. Visit Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s energy city of the future. Learn about the Limits to Growth, a pessimistic vision of the future which set expectations for many generations, and drove efforts to control population growth. The Chapter closes outlining the possibility of Abundance and outlining the four forces conspiring to transform our planet.
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Over the last 30 years, Mesquita has developed a series of mathematical models for forecasting how people interact in complex situations (Bigthink.com).
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