Futurist Organization Examples
Futurism community is characterized in part by
people running their own
organizations
and
small consulting companies
Here are just a few examples
Lifeboat.com
Publishing book now
We could look at potential covers
Notice the various programs
Faithpopcorn.com
Notable mainly for its splash page
Institute for the Future
One of the biggest
(see e.g. Wikipedia article)
At one time featured Paul Saffo
See bio
Turns out he is not the founder or leader
The Millenium Project
What does "millenium" mean?
Founder and head is Jerome Glenn
see bio
Let's look at the splash page
Click to see video intro to their
Global Futures Intelligence System
They have 4 major activities
Click "About Us" to see
Note the 4
Click "Short Powerpoint..." for details
Note the "On-Going Programs"
1. Futures Research Methodology
See CD
Helped to design this course
Let's see the web page
2. State of the Future annual reports
Let's click for that page as well
3. Special futures research projects
4. Global Futures Intelligence System
Click "Press Room" at top to see the news
Go back and click to go to the GFIS
GFIS
Let's check over the page at themp.org
Activate the Introduction button
Got to here Sp '13
Let's go through the challenges 1 by 1
How would you solve these
What does GFIS say?
As time allows
Look at the other links on the GFIS page
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