Integrating the future by Ken Wilber (2012) (To open click here) A straightforward and concise introduction to the significance of futures. An overview of Integral theory by Sean Hargens (2009) (To open click here) A detailed and authoritative account by a leading proponent. The evolution of integral futures by Terry Collins & Andy Hines (2010) (To open click here) This is…
Futures Thinking for Social Foresight (FTSF) brings together a range of tried and tested resources for helping young people to develop a wide range of futures concepts and capabilities. Some of the material presented here has been drawn from two previous resource books: Futures Tools and Techniques and Futures Concepts and Powerful Ideas.…
Deleting Dystopia – Re-asserting Human Priorities in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism This book presents a critical analysis of the IT revolution in the early 21Century and, in so doing, seeks to account for the way that innovations initially regarded by early pioneers as liberating and helpful have become absorbed into an oppressive global system…
The Biggest Wake-Up Call in History (2010) Rick Docksai Time is Running Out to Save Planet Earth In the days of the U.S.-Soviet Cold War, people lived in fear of a hypothetical nuclear world war that would obliterate human civilization. Today, civilization’s end is no longer hypothetical: It’s a certainty unless we restructure how we…
What is a Futurist? A futurist is someone who has learned how to study the future and how to use this knowledge to enable others to identify options and choices now. By studying the future you can move away from a passive or fatalistic acceptance of what may happen to an active and confident participation…
Herbert George Wells is mainly remembered as a writer of speculative fiction, although during his lifetime he was perhaps more widely known as a social critic. His fiction and non-fiction, however, both expressed aspects of a strongly held progressive global vision. He had a pervasive sense that humanity was on the cusp of a ‘new…
This page contains a sample of images that were originally on my weblog. I first became interested in street art while living in Melbourne some years ago. At that time most people were concerned to deal with the mess created by the widespread practice of ‘tagging’. In fact I was for a while a member…
Most attempts to evaluate the world of IT in the early 21st Century seem to produce one of two contrasting responses. Generally optimistic, often tech-oriented, views stress the power and reach of IT, the many ways it has transformed human life and its prospects. Others derived more from social and value-oriented sources regard such views…
How ‘development’ promotes redundant visions. The case of the Queen’s Wharf casino project, Brisbane (2016) Pathways toward ‘overshoot and collapse’ futures are not always or exclusively determined by international trends, national governments, wars and large-scale events. While cities have master plans and strategic goals most of them evolve within, and are expressed through, a continuous series…
Responding to the global mega-crisis (2011) In a pluralistic world there’s no single way to understand or describe the global mega crisis (GMC). That said, there are more and less productive ways of attempting to do so. Shopping lists of symptoms may be useful to the extent that they identify areas of concern and forewarn…