World Future Society
The World Future Society (WFS) is a nonprofit educational and scientific organization founded in 1966 and based in Washington, DC.[1] Annually, WFS reviews the past year in order to make predictions about the future,[2] and each July, WFS holds a conference which features speakers and one- or two-day courses dealing with futures studies. Membership is open to anyone who can afford it and many members are not professional futurists.[3] The society claims that its membership includes sociologists, scientists, corporate planners, educators, students and retirees.[4]
Website
The WFS website features digital library resources about futurism and content from the society's various publications.[citation needed]
Publications
The World Future Society publishes numerous books, including Futuring: The Exploration of the Future (Oct. 2005), written by society founder Edward Cornish, as well as several print and electronic journals.
Journals
The Futurist
The Futurist, a full-color bimonthly magazine that reports on technological, societal, and public policy trends. Among the thinkers and experts who have contributed to The Futurist include: MIT architecture scholar William [citation needed];G. Mitchell[citation needed]: Washington Post writer Joel Garreau[citation needed]; planetary physician Thomas Alured Faunce[citation needed], inventor Ray Kurzweil[citation needed]; Foresight president J. Storrs Hall[citation needed]; Daniel Barnett of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on flu pandemic[citation needed]; Former Harper's editor Lewis Lapham[citation needed]; Center for Strategic International Studies senior fellow Edward N. Luttwak[citation needed]; Pulitzer Prize nominee James Martin[citation needed]; U.S. Comptroller General David M. Walker[citation needed]; multimedia education pioneer Fred D'Ignazio[citation needed]; and former CIA director Robert James Woolsey, Jr..[citation needed]
In 2011, The Futurist featured the writing of technology writer Kevin Kelly[citation needed], marketing writer and speaker Seth Godin[citation needed], nature writer Richard Louv[citation needed], writer and scholar Evgeny Morozov[citation needed], environmentalist and MacAuthur Fellow Lester R. Brown[citation needed] and others.
The Futurist was nominated for a 2007 Utne Independent Press Award for Best Science and Technology Coverage.[citation needed]
The Futurist has published articles by forecaster and Smart Money columnist Jamais Cascio[citation needed], NASA chief research scientist Dennis Bushnell,[5] Financial Times economist Martin Wolf,[6] workplace expert John Challenger and Wall Street Journal "Gen X" columnist Alexandra Levit.[7] The magazine published exclusive interviews with former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich[citation needed], serving U.S. congressman Dennis Kucinich,[8] Harvard evolutionary biologist Marc Hauser[citation needed], as well as inventor (and World Future 2010 featured speaker) Ray Kurzweil[citation needed].
The Futurist featured coverage on:
- Powering an energy-hungry civilization with uranium, sunlight, wind, the gulf stream, garbage, ammonia, algae, other sources.[9]
- The potential impact of artificial intelligence and nanotechnology on invention and manufacturing,[10]
- Changing the weather to combat climate change,[11]
- How to create your own artificial island nation,[12]
- The job market of the 21st century,[13]
- The future of national security in the age of cyber warfare, by former White House advisor Marvin Cetron,[9]
- The influence of neuroscience on traditional ideas of morality.[14]
- Powering the World with Artificial photosynthesis.[15]
References
- ↑ Frequently Asked Questions About WFS
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- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica Blog Dennis Bushnell article from THE FUTURIST magazine, reposted
- ↑ The Futurist Interview with Martin Wolf, May–June 2009 edition
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica Blog Levitt Op-Ed from The Futurist magazine reposted
- ↑ The Encyclopædia Britannica Blog Interviews with Newt Gingrich, Dennis Kucinich, others, reposted from the July–August 2009 edition of The Futurist
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 The Futurist magazine table of contents, September–October 2009 edition
- ↑ The Futurist magazine table of contents, July–August 2009 edition
- ↑ The Futurist magazine table of contents, May–June 2009 edition
- ↑ The New York Times Idea Blog, featuring The Futurist magazine, June 10, 2009
- ↑ The Futurist magazine The table of contents from the September–October 2009 issue
- ↑ The Reinvention of Morality, The Futurist magazine, January–February 2009
- ↑ Powering the World with Artificial Photosynthesis The Futurist magazine, May–June 2013
External links
- World Future Society (WFS) official website
