Links on Future Development

Futurology, Future Studies

• Foundation for the Future, created to study the long term evolution of humanity, towards the year 3000
• Joël de Rosnay's "Crossroads to the future" page including a list of future-oriented web sites
• Connect with the Future: extensive lists of future-oriented sites
• Futures web sites: another list
• Sasha Chislenko's home page with a list of Great Thinkers and Visionaries, and articles on future developments
• the Club of Rome , the famous international think tank reflecting on our global future
• OECD Futures Programme
• A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age: Cyberspace and the American dream, a "free market" view of the net, based on ideas from Toffler, Gilder, Dyson and others.
• Essay on "Cyberocracy" by D. Ronfeldt
• John McCarthy's views on Progress and its Sustainability
• Robert Anton Wilson's Trajectories, the Journal of Futurism & Heresy
• FutureWeb: Future Studies program at University of Houston, provides a Futures Resources Index
• the Swedish Institute for Futures Studies
• the Millennium Project: a United Nations University think tank for global and long-range forecasting; check the results of its global lookout panel.
• another Millennium Project, this time run by the UK Open University, with a very comprehensive series of forecasts for the 21st century, produced by high level discussions involving different organizations
• the World Future Society and its journal "Futures Research Quarterly"
• Greater Boston Chapter of the World Future Society with many links on future-related web documents
• the Worldwatch institute
• Resources for Futures Research
• Plausible Futures : a future oriented resource center with hundreds of links
• Brain Food: Jay Hanson's extensive collection of texts about the Earth's limited carrying capacity and the dire effects implied by the tragedy of the commons
• the library of the Future Institute website

Developing the Human Potential

• texts on Transhumanism: a philosophy that seeks to extend human capabilities to ever higher levels
• Transhumanism, futurology and analytic philosophy: the Bostrom space
• the World Transhumanism Association, offering a Journal of Transhumanism
• The Extropian Principles, the Extropy Institute and other information about extropianism, a "transhumanist" movement that shares many ideas with Principia Cybernetica, but puts more emphasis on free market mechanisms and technological applications for human expansion
• Hans Moravec's home page with plenty of publications on a robot-dominated future
• Life-extension: plenty of links on ways of living longer
• Sci.life-extension: a newsgroup on methods for prolonging life, and its Archives with a FAQ
• Better thinking with chemistry: an introduction and overview of intelligence enhancing drugs
• Arcosanti: an experimental town demonstrating the possible integration of architecture with ecology ("arcology")
• Barbara Marx Hubbard's Foundation for Conscious Evolution: a network for raising conscioussness
• Communications for a sustainable future: a progressive network for social and ecological issues
• The Venus Project: aims to redesign culture for a sustainable future
• New Civilization Network: a "New Age" style group working towards a better world
• Foresight Institute: an organization formed to prepare society for anticipated technologies, in particular nanotechnology, and Web Enhancement software