Futures studies resources

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FUTURES STUDIES
RESOURCES
A useful collection of useful futures Internet links.

Alireza Hejazi, MSF.
Founding Editor of FuturesDiscovery.com


Order of Links
• Research & Aid Tools
• Trends & Scanning
• Books
• Journals, Articles & Publications
• Professional Websites, Newsletters & Listservs
• Universities & Colleges
• Futurists, Institutes & Think Tanks


Research & Aid Tools - 1
• Futures Research Methodology - Version 3.0
http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/FRM-V3.html
• Scenario Planning
http://www.12manage.com/methods_scenario_planning.html
• Thinking Futures Scanning Resources
http://thinkingfutures.net/scanningresources
• Acceleration Studies Foundation http://futuresphd.wetpaint.com
• Futures Education Wiki
http://merlotfutureseducation.wikispaces.com
• Foresight Wiki http://www.forwiki.ro/
• Online PhD http://onlinephd.org


• Bloom’s Taxonomy
http://www.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxono
my.htm
• Drivers of Change http://www.driversofchange.com
• Implications Wheel http://implicationswheel.com
• Entering Strategic Foresight http://prezi.com/sn7mz4l9snj-
/entering-strategic-foresigh t
• Practical Foresight http://practicalforesight.wetpaint.com
• Preparing Future Faculty http://www.preparing-faculty.org
• Faculty Focus http://www.facultyfocus.com


• Resources for Futures Research
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rdr/Ant547/ftrrcrcs.htm
• Postdoctoral Useful Resources
http://www.nationalpostdoc.org/publications
• Bigger Brains http://www.biggerbrains.com


Trend Analysis & Horizon Scanning - 1
• The Herman Group http://www.herman.net
• Trend Watching http://www.trendwatching.com
• The Millennium Project http://www.millennium-project.org
• Tech Cast http://www.techcast.org
• Trend Search http://www.trendsresearch.com


Trend Analysis & Horizon Scanning - 2
• Innovation Watch http://innovationwatch.com
• Trends Map http://www.trendsmap.com
• The Trends Journal http://www.trendsresearch.com
• Understanding Foresight and Horizon Scanning (FHS)
http://community.iknowfutures.eu/pg/blog/popper/read/120
65/understanding-foresight-and-horizon-scanning-fhs


Books - 1
• WFS Book Picks http://www.wfs.org/book-picks
• Global Foresight Books http://www.globalforesightbooks.org
• Practical Foresight Guide
http://www.shapingtomorrow.com/media-centre/pf-complete.pdf
• The Image of the Future
http://storyfieldteam.pbworks.com/f/the-image-of-the-future.pdf
• Keys to the 21st Century
http://www.berghahnbooks.com/prelims/BindeKeys_prelims.pdf
• Advanced strategic thinking: Visionary management
http://info.tse.fi/julkaisut/vk/Ae8_2004.pdf
• Foundations of Futures Studies: Human Science for a New Era
http://books.google.com/books?vid=978-0-7658-0566-
9&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false


Books - 2
• Future Savvy: Identifying Trends to Make Better Decisions, Manage
• Uncertainty, and Profit from Change
http://futuresavvy.net/#futuresavvybook
• http://books.google.com/books/about/Future_savvy.html?id=2JqPnvo
SJqYC
• When Things Start To Think http://www.kurzweilai.net/ebooks/when-
things-start-to-think
• The Art of the Long View
http://books.google.com/books?id=fILtwg777hsC
• Great Transition
http://www.gtinitiative.org/documents/Great_Transitions.pdf
• The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies http://ebookee.org/-
request_ebook-The-Knowledge-Base-of-Futures-Studies-
Professional-Edition_158130.html
• Limits to Growth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth


Book - 3
• The State of the World http://www.worldwatch.org/node/7157
• The State of the Future http://www.millennium-
project.org/millennium/publications.html
• The Art of Conjecture
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/36600/The-Art-of-
Conjecture
• The Age of Spiritual Machines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Spiritual_Machines
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse:_How_Societies_Choose_
to_Fail_or_Succeed
• SuperStruct http://archive.superstructgame.net/
• Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digita
http://www.borndigitalbook.com/


Book - 4
• Innovation Killers http://www.innovationkiller.com/
• Scenario Planning-the Link Between Future and Strategy
http://www.brefigroup.co.uk/books/view_book/category_sname/
scenario_planning/asin/details_0333993179.doc
• The Art of Conjecture http://www.questia.com/library/book/the-
art-of-conjecture-by-bertrand-de-jouvenel-nikita-
lary.jsp?CRID=the-art-of-conjecture-by-bertrand-de-jouvenel-
nikita-lary&OFFID=se2qbp&KEY=art+of+conjecture
• Thinking about The Future: Strategic Anticipation and RAHS
http://www.rahs.org.sg/rahs+publication/RAHS_book.pdf
• Strategic Foresight for Corporate and Regional Development
http://en.laprospective.fr/download-translations/5-file.html


Journals, Articles & Publications - 1
• Journal of Futures Studies
http://www.jfs.tku.edu.tw/sarticles.html
• Foresight http://www.emeraldinsight.com/fs.htm
• World Futures Review http://www.wfs.org/wfr/
• Futures
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_h
ome/30422/description
• On The Horizon
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=1074-
8121
• Futurist http://www.wfs.org
• Foresight Magazine http://forecasters.org/foresight/


• Managing the Future
http://www.futuringassociates.com/thoughts/Managing_the_Future_6_
JANUARY_2011.pdf
• Future-proofing Your Organization
http://www.gbn.com/articles/pdfs/GBN_Futureproofing.CEO%20j.pdf
• RT Delphi: An Efficient, “Round-less” Almost Real Time Delphi
Method http://www.realtimedelphi.org/library/delphi_article.html
• The Art and Strategy of Scenario Writing
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=872864&show=
html
• Anticipatory Management: Tools for Better Decision Making
http://horizon.unc.edu/courses/papers/AnticipatoryManagement.html
• How Experienced Examiners Assess Research Theses
http://www.uow.edu.au/content/groups/public/@web/@raid/document
s/doc/uow016364.pdf
• The Social Side of Strategy
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/The_social_side_of_strategy_2965


• Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning
http://www.uctc.net/mwebber/Rittel+Webber+Dilemmas+Gener
al_Theory_of_Planning.pdf
• Looking Back on the Limits of Growth
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Looking-Back-
on-the-Limits-of-Growth.html
• Is it Too Late for Sustainable Development?
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Is-it-Too-Late-
for-Sustainable-Development.html
• Higher Education in a Global, Knowledge Networked World
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=1074-
8121&volume=18&issue=4&articleid=1886431&show=pdf
• Six Pillars: Futures Thinking for Transforming
http://www.metafuture.org/Six%20pillars%20-
%20futures%20thinking%20for%20transforming%20Foresight
%20vol%2010%20issue%201%202008.pdf


• Introducing hybrid thinking for transformation, innovation and strategy
http://www.gartner.com/resources/172000/172065/introducing_hybrid
_thinking_172065.pdf
• Should probabilities be used with Scenarios?
http://www.futuringassociates.com/text/Probabilities_with_Scenarios_
DEC_2008.pdf
• Making the future visible: psychology, scenarios and strategy
http://www.hardintibbs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/future-
landscape-tibbs-a4.pdf
• Trend analysis as pattern recognition
http://www.futuringassociates.com/text/Trend_Analysis_FINAL_REV_
20_Sept_08.pdf
• Combining Foresight Methods for Impact
http://www.nistep.go.jp/IC/ic071119/pdf/3-3_Keenan.pdf
• To Predict or to Build the Future? http://www.wfs.org/futurist/may-
june-2012-vol-46-no-3/predict-or-build-future-reflections-field-and-
differences-between


• Futurists’ Forecasts
http://www.wfs.org/Forecasts_From_The_Futurist_Magazine
• A Look at the Future of Science: 2021
• http://www.iftf.org/system/files/feature/IFTF_SR1454A_Futureof
Science_rdr.pdf
• Envisioning Emerging Technology
http://envisioningtech.com/envisioningtech.pdf
• List of Futurist Blogs
http://www.vernewheelwright.com/id14.html
• 21 Issues for 21st Century
http://www.unep.org/publications/ebooks/foresightreport/Portals
/24175/pdfs/Foresight_Report-
21_Issues_for_the_21st_Century.pdf
• Future Global Shocks
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/24/36/48256382.pdf


• StoryTech: A personalized guide to the 21st century
http://www.educationfutures.com/res/StoryTech.pdf
• Global Risks 2012 http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2012
• Envisioning the Future of Education Technology
http://envisioningtech.com/envisioning-the-future-of-
education.pdf
• The Future of Science, Technology & Well-Being
http://www.iftf.org/2020ForecastMap
• The Re-working of "Work" http://www.iftf.org/reworkingwork
• Why Companies Fail
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2012/03/why-
companies-fail
• The Origins of Futurism
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/The-Origins-
of-Futurism.html


• Thinking about Futurism http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-
nature/Thinking-About-Futurism.html
• Ecosystems of Well-being & Ecosystems of Well-being in 4 Futures
http://www.iftf.org/wellbeingecosystems
• The Future of the Internet http://www.elon.edu/docs/e-
web/predictions/expertsurveys/2012survey/PIP_Future_of_Internet_2
012_Gen_Always_ON.pdf
• Mind in a Designed World
http://www.iftf.org/system/files/deliverable/SR-
1345%20Mind%20in%20a%20Designed%20World%20(1).pdf
• Global Think Tank Index http://www.gotothinktank.com/wp-
content/uploads/2012/01/2011_Global_Go_To_Think_Tanks_Report_-
_January_20_Edition_WITH_LETTEr-1.pdf
• Towards Planetary Consciousness? http://www.jfs.tku.edu.tw/16-
2/S05.pdf
• Envisioning Emerging Technology
http://envisioningtech.com/envisioningtech.pdf


Professional Websites, Newsletters &
Listservs - 1
• Club of Rome http://www.clubofrome.org
• Futuribles http://www.futuribles.com
• Global Business Network http://www.gbn.org
• World Future Society (WFS) http://www.wfs.org
• WFS newsletter subscription futuristupdate@wfs.org
• Shaping Tomorrow (ST) http://www.shapingtomorrow.com
• Shaping Tomorrow Network
http://shapingtomorrowmain.ning.com
• Foresight Research & Education Network (FERN)
http://www.fernweb.org
• iKnow Community http://community.iknowfutures.eu


Professional Websites, Newsletters &
Listservs - 2
• Institute for the Future (IFTF) http://www.iftf.org
• Association of Professional Futurists (APF)
http://www.profuturists.org/
• APF listserv http://groups.google.com/group/apflist
• APF listserv e-mail apflist@googlegroups.com
• World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) http://www.wfsf.org/
• WFSF listserv e-mail WFSF-L@list1.ucc.nau.edu
• The Futures Network http://www.thefuturesnetwork.com
• Foresight Planning http://www.foresightplanning.eu
• Global Foresight http://www.globalforesight.org
• Inward Bound http://www.inwardboundvisioning.com/
• The Foresight Epidemic http://theforesightepidemic.com/


Universities & Colleges - 1
• The Santa Fe Institute http://www.santafe.edu
• University of Houston http://www.houstonforesight.org/
• University of Houston Futures Studies
http://www.tech.uh.edu/Programs/Futures_Studies
• Regent University School of Global Leadership &
Entrepreneurship http://www.regent.edu/global/msf
• Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies
http://www.futures.hawaii.edu
• Anne Arundel Community College http://www.aacc.edu/future
• Angers University http://master-foresight-
innovation.fr/programme/
• PhD on Organizational Future Orientation
http://www.au.dk/en/phd/graduate_schools/graduate-school-of-
business-and-social-sciences/general-call/


Universities & Colleges - 2
• Anticipating the Future http://cals.arizona.edu/futures
• Foresight / Futures Studies Programs
http://www.accelerating.org/gradprograms.html
• Swinburn University, Master of Strategic Foresight
http://www.swinburne.edu.au/business/agse/courses/strategic-
foresight.htm
• SoFor: Social Foresight http://www.unitn.it/en/sofor
• Tamkang University http://www2.tku.edu.tw/tddx
• The Futures Academy http://www.thefuturesacademy.ie
• University of Arizona http://ag.arizona.edu/futures
• School of International Futures http://www.soif.org.uk/
• Azerbaijan Foresight Course
http://www.futurestudies.az/2011/index.php


Futurists, Institutes & Think Tanks - 1
• Rand http://www.rand.org
• Metafuture http://www.metafuture.org
• The Long Now Foundation http://www.longnow.org
• Hinesight http://www.andyhinesight.com
• Foresight International http://www.foresightinternational.com.au
• Infinite Futures http://www.infinitefutures.com/
• Institute for Alternative Futures http://www.altfutures.com
• The World's Biggest Problems
http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/wbp/portal/home
• Future Think http://www.futurethink.com
• Fast Futures http://fastfuture.com
• Leading Futurists http://leadingfuturists.biz


• Resilient Futures http://resilientfutures.com
• Hardin Tibbs http://www.hardintibbs.com
• Verne Wheelwright (Personal Futures)
http://www.personalfutures.net
• Shaping Our Future http://www.ffof.org
• Finland Futures Research Centre http://utu.fi/ffrc
• Finland Futures Academy http://www.tvanet.fi/en/
• Smart Insights http://www.smartinsights.com
• Education Futures http://www.educationfutures.com/
• The Museum of the Future
http://themuseumofthefuture.com/


• CogNexus Institute: A Portal to Wicked Problems
http://www.cognexus.org/
• Accelerating Change http://www.accelerating.org/
• Center for Future Consciousness
http://www.centerforfutureconsciousness.com
• Christian Futures Network http://www.christianfutures.com
• Kurzweil Artificial Intelligence http://www.kurzweilai.net
• Police Futurists http://www.policefuturists.org
• The World Network of Religious Futurists
http://www.wnrf.org
• Social Technologies http://www.socialtechnologies.com/


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