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Association of Professional Futurists
T he Association of Professional Futurists is a global community of professional futurists committed to leadership and excellence in the futures field.
Front Page - The Long Now
The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996 to creatively foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years. Read More...
The World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) is a global NGO that was founded in the 1960s to encourage and promote the development of futures studies as a transdisciplinary academic and professional field in all parts of the world.
Welcome to WFSF
| DaVinci Institute
The demand for computer programmers has never been stronger, and at the DaVinci Institute, we decided to do something about it. Starting in June, we will be launching DaVinci Coders, an 11-week program designed to take passionate, driven people from zero to programmer in less than 90 days.On April 3-5, IFTF and the Rockefeller Foundation invited people all over the world to join the Catalysts for Change game and imagine thousands of paths out of poverty.
Institute For The Future
Welcome to the Institute for Global Futures
Demand for energy is outpacing supply, and without new sources of energy and increased efficiency, by 2030 we will be facing major shortages.Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
34.8% of IEET poll responders selected “Cryonics and Resurrection” in a recent survey that inquired about life-after-death preferences. 27.7% selected, instead, the category, “Uploaded in a Non-Biological Medium,” and 24.1% chose “Either is Fine.” Let’s be real.
Foresight and Innovation at Stanford University
Foresight and Innovation at Stanford University is a program focusing on vision development, innovation planning, and foresight engineering.The Future of Humanity Institute is a multidisciplinary research institute at the University of Oxford.
Future of Humanity Institute - Future of Humanity Institute
Nick Bostrom is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University and founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute and of the Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology within the Oxford Martin School. He is the author of some 200 publications, including Anthropic Bias (Routledge, 2002), Global Catastrophic Risks (ed., OUP, 2008), and Human Enhancement (ed., OUP, 2009), and a forthcoming book on Superintelligence. He previously taught at Yale, and he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the British Academy.