Great Foresight Websites and e-News
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Top Foresight Websites and e-News

World Clock
Counters on global population, death, illness, energy, crime, food, environment, and more. Great for getting "Topsight" about our complex and increasingly quantified/simulated world. Check it out!

News at Seven
An early version of EPIC (Evolving Personalized Information Construct) personalized news. Launched Oct 2007. "News at Seven gives you the news you want, the way you want it. Each day, News at Seven automatically generates a virtual newscast pulled from stories, images, videos and blogs all linked by a common news topic. News at Seven presents news, point/counterpoint, opinion, celebrity gossip and the occasional foray into the world of 3D gaming."

Science, Evolution, and Development Websites and e-News

Ray Kurzweil's site may go under technology and information but i think its more fitting that it goes under evolution, Prof Smart has mentioned this site several times, and i was surprised to not see it already listed here so i will go ahead and pop it in The Singularity is approaching . - Brooke Beresford


This is a great science journal site my friend just introduced me to, it contains all of the scientific journal publications in one nice little collection for your reading pleasure.
Phsyorg

Arstechinca
Great articles on new technologies and news event. http://arstechnica.com/index.ars

This website is from the director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University. He writes a lot about ethics of human advancement and predicting the future of humanity.
http://www.nickbostrom.com/ [Eric Kaplan]

Back to the Moon
This is news from NASA on how they are planning their next space mission to go. I watched a special about this on discovery channel and it was amazing. It will give you insight on to a future of possibly living on the moon! [Kristopher Velez]

Future Science
This is a news website for a non-profit organization that discusses future science. It shows a lot of foreshadowing as well as things uncovered from the past. [Kristopher Velez]

http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/june98/2088.html- What follows is not a comprehensive look at the year 2088, but a mosaic of projections, guesses and fables gathered by UW writers and complied by Columns Editor Tom Griffin.

http://www.wfs.org/ - This link is an actual futurist website that deals with the future of fashion, economics, technology and just about anything else futurist.

Eric Fisher
The Reason i would like to post this is because it has great information on future changed that have to do with Medicine and how it will effect our world with tommorrows Vaccines, Drugs, and treatments. It gives a good amount of information on this topic and it seems to give a lot of information on these topics in the health side of the future outlook and whats to come. http://www.genetichealth.com/G101_Genetics_and_the_Future_of_Medicine.shtml

Another site that caught my eye that some of you guys and gals out there would like is future of computers and how they will become more powerfull and be able to handle more processes and things at once then todays computers. http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/eggcarton.htm


Another great Topic on the future would have to be how our food will change in the future and wher we get it from. Who's going to supply it and grow it? How it will be growed like what fertilizer and other things science is making our food do and whats in it? http://archives.cnn.com/2000/FOOD/news/01/01/food.2000/

News at Seven
A site that generates a daily, user-defined topically-customized news snippets, delivered by digital avatar. Moves RSSfeed-type info streams into a more polished, traditional format. - Pajamas

Technology (Engineering, Infotech, Sociotech, Cognotech, Biomedtech) Websites and e-News

Brandon Jacobs
QJ.net is a great place to get up to date information on all of you favorite tech stuff. There are sub sites devoted to specific interests like photography, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, pc gaming, and Apple. The site has many different writers that have joined over time, so the info is extremely up to date and usually valuable.

Bernard Clary
Ars Technica. This is a website dedicated to posting new information from the worlds of tech, gaming, business,
and law. The blogs on this site are well written and informative and give insight into new and upcoming technology as
well as how they affect other fields.


Bernard Clary
Tech Crunch. This is another tech related website along the lines of ars technica. The posts aren't as long as those
from ars technica but they provide great information in short summary forms for the readers.

Entomopter Project
The Entomopter Project is a micro-UAV being developed by Robert C. Michelson and his research team from the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), University of Cambridge in England, and ETS Labs. The Entomopter utilizes biologically-inspired design to provide a new testbed for future low-to-no gravity data acquisition. Of particular interest is the Entomopter's fuel efficiency. [Chris Schoerning]

Speckled Computing is a project being worked on by several universities in the United Kingdom that is attempting to create a working model of a distributed computing network comprised entirely of tiny little specks that include nothign but a power source, a basic processor, and a method of transmission/receiving data. This ultraminiatruized computing model is something that I think could change the world in the future. \Bill Nega\

[Brant Hestrup]
Quantum Computing --
This is a link to the Wikipedia page for Quantum Computing. Quantum Computing is likely to be the next major step in the evolution of computers and technology.

Space Future- A website about the public and space. Space is the next thing to colonize and this site proposes ideas to take the next step.

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/robot.htm This websites helps explain how robots work in more detail then most people know. If robots are on the rise, it might be a good idea to understand them more

Eric Fisher
Hey it's me again well this time i found something interesting on how our cities will look in the future and see what kind of changes will take place and make cites a safter, better and funner places to live. It shows alot of interesting things that could change possibly for the better.http://www.future-cities-lab.net/

http://www.benwiens.com/energy3.html (Websites) This page talks all about the energy that we might or are using to replace oil at some point in our lives. I think its a good page because it goes through a lot about what can be good about the sources of energy and bad. - Ryan Rizzo

http://www.trak-air.com/ (other)
This page is about this trak-air product that lets you cook many foods that before you would need oil or grease but instead u dont need any. I like this page because I thought it was a pretty cool product and I have never seen it before and thought it would be something cool to look at and see how it really works on the inside and how they could use this and make it better - Ryan Rizzo

http://greenoptions.com/2007/02/26/the_future_of_garbage
This page talks about how they are trying to reduce the landfill amounts and try and saving space. this machine takes garbage/trash and turns it into energy. I thought this was cool because this could help us a lot on the o-zone and saving the land - Ryan Rizzo

AskWiki
A search engine that uses natural language processing to pull answers from wikipedia. - Pajamas

http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=inventors&cdn=money&tm=
18&f=00&su=p554.2.150.ip_&tt=3&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.eere.energy.gov/
A good place to learn about new energy sources and what we're doing with them! - ezerhauden

http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=inventors&cdn=money&tm=170&f=00&su=p554.2.150.ip_
&tt=3&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//researchweb.watson.ibm.com/quantuminfo/teleportation/
A short paper about quantum teleportation with some extra links. - ezerhauden

http://www.technologyreview.com/
A great resource that examines the positives and negatives of emerging technologies.
A powerful resource that can fuel (pardon the pun) discussion in our classroom. - Steven Janca

http://www.jrmooneyham.com/2com.html
This is an interesting website because it talks about a birth control pill and then goes off to talk about the concept of a death control pill. It is kind of a long read but its worth skimming through at the least. To me this page was extremely interesting, because it deals with an topic that i think everyone can relate to. - Brad Stein

Space Future
This is another awesome link that takes you to a website that deals with space habitat, and you can also look through possible vehicles, tourism, and sources of power. I like this page because it talks about something that all humans have been interested in, space travel and living. - Brad Stein

http://www.foresight.org/
Take a look at this website if you are interested in nanotechnology, it has a lot of articles on it and has a good resources page. I thought that this page was very interesting and is an excellent page to check out if you are interested in researching nanotech. - Steve Janca

Brain Fingerprinting/P300 wave- A developing method of interrogation examining how a persons brain waves respond to stimuli. Rather than asking questions, the person is shown several pictures (or other forms of stimuli). If the person's brain "recognizes" the picture, it is detected and recorded. This can be used to determine if a criminal has a memory of seeing the inside of a bank vault, for instance. - Pajamas

http://futurewire.blogspot.com/
"An examination of futurism/futurology, emerging trends, disruptive innovations... and all their unintended consequences." -A blog that examines all the new and hot topic emerging technologies that are happening in the world today and tomorrow. The good, the bad, the unforeseen. All you need to know about whats coming up cited from several different sources. A good resource for our class as a quick "pick me up" of futurist knowledge. - Steve Janca


Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Websites and e-News

Global Voices Online
A non-profit organization of global bloggers, video bloggers, and citizen journalists speaking out about social justice and humanitarian issues. Many voices from developing nations, that are never heard on Western corporate media, can be found here. Their stories are amazing and compelling. GVO is funded by Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, an academic center trying to make cyber law and the internet a global force for advancing democracy and improving society.

Economics, Capitalism, Finance, Globalization, and Innovation Infrastructure Websites and e-News

Something for the econoheads
http://www.mises.org/story/1804 This is a very long article, the site seems like a good place to explore for those interested in current events, etc. This specific address leads to an article that talks about trends in the economy, and where that may lead. I didn't read the whole thing, but what I did seemed interesting enougt to post, so here it is. (stephen271)

Financial Forcasting
A long article on ways to predict how a stock will act in the future. This article attempts to inform the reader on how to pick a profitable stock in the future. [Kristopher Velez]

http://research.microsoft.com/displayArticle.aspx?id=160
This page talks about the new idea of money...money you might say... Yes money, taking all of what we have worked on and making it into one simple thing. I thought this page was cool because it talks about how our money life style will change. - Ryan Rizzo

Politics, Security, Democracy, Rights, Health Care, and Sustainability InfrastructureWebsites and e-News

This is another article, but the site may be useful for future searches.
http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/864/What_future_for_government_.html
It goes over the trends of society, economy, and government, and states some interesting opinions of the governments existence in the future, I was caught in it, enough to read through at least half the article, which is where the future talk starts. That is why I am posting this.(stephen271)

NY Senator pushes for cameras on cop handguns
Something I explicitly remember from one of the lectures, seems a prediction might be about to be fulfilled! - Tom Andrys

Society (Big): Culture: Society, Ethics, Media, Art, Design, Education, Religion Websites and e-News

Education, 21st Century Style
This is an older article that predicts the uses of online classes and other technologies in the classroom. The reason I am posting it is because if you read the whole thing you can see how much teaching has evolved since then. They predict many things that happened and still might. Online classes, etc. It is worth reading to really understand how far we have come in education. -Alan Cacciamani-

I think this has to do with Media, and society, its the future of Gaming. Its from PBS, so you know its true, ha. Anyways, I (stephen271 don't want to lose credit for this) think it had some good general info about the future of gaming, general, not advanced, but worth checking out.
http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/impact/future.html

15 Failed Predictions of the End of the World During 2006
Great examples of "extreme prediction" from the good folks at ReligousTolerance.org.


Society (Med): Org: Mgmt, Org. Innov. & Entrep, Org. Sustainability & Social Resp., Org. Dev.Websites and e-News

Actics
A first step towards the values revolution. Actics is a site where users list which values are important to them (environmentalism, compassion, etc) and then rate companies on how well they comply - Tom Andrys

iKarma
Another websites devoted to the reputation of businesses. - Tom Andrys

Rapleaf
Email-based reputation lookup. -Tom Andrys

Society (Small): Personal: Family, Relationships, Careers, and Lifestyle Websites and e-News
Twine is a new program that collects information that passes through a person, then analyses it. Could be a great start to having digital personas. - Tom Andrys

openID is a website for managing your online identity - Tom Andrys

Multidisciplinary Websites and e-News


Realistic Future Fiction Websites and e-News
[Realistic future fiction has major parts which feel like they actually could happen in the future, under the right circumstances. Most fantasy and a lot of science fiction really doesn't count as realistic--there are exceptions however, and if you think that some particular aspect of a fantasy or SF quotation feels realistic, include it here and explain why. Future fiction is a subgenre of general or science fiction that feels realistic most of the way through, even to critical readers. Good future fiction is quite hard to write, as you can imagine.]
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Unclassified Websites and e-News
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