Created 29/02/2012 10:20:03 AM

This newsletter serves as a source of information for the students and mentors of Futures Studies. It is not a commercial newsletter. However, it can satisfy the commercial needs of everyone interested in future-oriented topics of science and technology. The futurists and foresight professionals' volunteer cooperation in sending top news or useful links related to their studies, researches, products, events and etc. to: is highly appreciated. You can also sign up by clicking on following red button to receive the newsletter regularly in your e-mail box. There is also a link to the archive of this newsletter.

Happy futuring,
Alireza Hejazi

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Education

What is Strategic Foresight? Strategic foresight is the practice of creating a functional view of the future, or future events and possibilities, in such a way as to take full advantage of opportunities, as well as to prepare for any possible adversity. more>

Higher Education in a Global, Knowledge Networked World Learn new insights into how changes in technology are making it possible for educators, educational institutions, and other learning organizations to form new collaborative relationships across geographic, cultural and disciplinary boundaries. more>

Entering Strategic Foresight The strategic foresight can be represented in many ways. Satori Engine's Foresight Concept is an innovative sample of introducing strategic foresight to new students of the field and mentors who are interested in educational stuff. more>

The Future of Futures Studies Today, increasing number of futurists, scholars, business planners, and others around the futuring work is a good sign showing the usefulness of Futures Studies for the future of humanity, just as Dator wished so 26 years ago. more>

Resources for Futures Research A number of useful links are gathered up at Northern Arizona University Futures Forum. It's an enriched list of futuring resources. Don't miss it if you are a student of Futures Studies. more>

Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation The Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation (CSSI) is powered by action, ideas and research aimed at opening a door to the array of resources that help students, faculty and staff incorporate all kinds of sustainability into their studies, careers and lives. more>

Strategic Plan Builder Building a strategic plan or engaging in strategic planning can make a difference, particularly when it has a long-term focus and is used as a management tool, rather than simply being an exercise in forms completion. more>

Events & Reports

Conference on Strategic Foresight, Strategic Agility, and Future Orientation Within the next ISPIM Conferences and Symposium Special Interest Group meetings will be held on: Strategic Agility, Environmental Scanning, Peripheral Vision, Corporate Foresight, and Organizational Future Orientation. more>

On the Horizon Journal: Call for Papers Does Futures Studies require a supporting theoretical basis? During the past fifty years, futures studies have assumed an increasingly explicit professional nature. Practices have become more tailored to the needs of customers and methods have become more robust.  more>

Introduction to Dynamic Modeling with STELLA and iThink Whether you are new to Systems Thinking or it's been a while since you've used the STELLA or iThink software, this two and a half day workshop provides the most efficient way to come up to speed with the dynamic modeling process. more>

Global Think Tank Index The value of the Index lies in its ability to highlight the important contributions that think tanks make to governments and civil societies around the world, especially in traditionally underrepresented regions such as Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.  more>

Trendbook 2012 Trend-setting product innovations of the future: for looking up and referencing. You will find concrete product innovations, real services and convincing business models in the Trendbook 2012 in the form of micro-trends. more>

Rio+20: UN Conference on Sustainable Development The Future We Want - Zero draft of the outcome document. The zero draft of the the outcome document can be downloaded on the right side of the page. more>

Publications & Products

A Vision for 2012 In this timely and insightful treatise, Petersen explains how the world and its leaders must prepare for an onslaught of potential crises, such as rapid climate change, a tipping point in the global financial system, and much more. more>

The Anatomy of an Experience Map Experience maps have become more prominent over the past few years, largely because companies are realizing the interconnectedness of the cross-channel experience. It's becoming increasingly useful to gain insight in order to orchestrate service touchpoints over time and space. more>

Reinventing Energy Futures Reinventing Energy Futures: Four Visions presents the shifting landscape of our relationship to energy. For most inhabitants of the developed world, energy (or lack thereof) has not been a problem during their lifetimes. more>

Making Things: 21st Century Manufacturing and Design In a wide-ranging and provocative conversation, seven leaders of business, government, and academia explored the many facets of manufacturing and design and outlined the many opportunities and responsibilities posed by manufacturing for the engineering profession. more>

Towards Planetary Consciousness? The idea of global crisis as a temporal telescoping of unfavorable events has come into favor at least since the 1973 oil crisis. In Halal's and Marien's analysis the crisis also is caused by influences from the human sphere, as well as both living nature and non-living nature spheres. more>

Top Tech 2012 Predict the next century and you can fantasize; predict the coming decade and you can wax enthusiastic. But if you're looking at just the next 12 months, you'd better keep your feet on the ground. more>

Ideas & Views

The World's Biggest Problems The World’s Biggest Problems portal has a simple, clear mission: educating people all around the world about the biggest problems facing humanity. These problems have two criteria, they must be global in scope, and have the potential to rapidly escalate into severe crises. more>

Snacks, Choices, and the Future of Eating Over the past few years IFTF’s Global Food Outlook Program research has focused on food choices and how the values people hold, the contexts that surround them, and people’s behaviors themselves, will change in the coming decade. more>

New Media Forecast 2012 As a digital production company specializing in multi-platform content, Refinery Media’s team of media specialists ensures the best for tomorrow’s media through the strategic integration of traditional and new media. more>

Reversing Global Warming The challenge of global warming and desertification has been on environmentalists’ radar for quite some time. Traditional methods have been employed to stem desertification and revive degraded grasslands, but these efforts have fallen short of the desired results. more>

10 Ways the Next 10 Years Are Going To Be Mind-Blowing We are living in an extremely exciting time in terms of science and technology. Things that have always been considered science fiction are becoming normal day-to-day components of our lives. more>

4 Zany Futuristic Ideas that Could Come True The death of investment banks! Robotic probes of the brain! Big changes are coming to the way we bank, educate our kids, eat, and treat diseases. more>