FutureNovo:Futurist sites
From FutureNovo - Anticipating things to come
- Former long-time futurologist at BT, Ian Pearson is now with Futurizon, a speaker's agency and futures consultancy. He has written extensively about a broad range of futures topics.
- Features the big thoughts of today's big thinkers examining the confluence of accelerating revolutions that are shaping our future world and the inside story on new technological and social realities from the pioneers actively working in these arenas.
- In the coming decades, humanity will likely create a powerful artificial intelligence. The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence exists to confront this urgent challenge, both the opportunity and the risk.
- A leading think tank and public interest institute on nanotechnology.
- A nonprofit, nonpartisan scientific and educational association of people interested in how social and technological developments are shaping the future.
- Global futurist and author Jack Uldrich offers essential strategic information on nanotechnology, robotics, biotechnology, RFID and many other future technologies to help you prosper as exponential trends converge at this unique moment in history.
- Director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University
- Futurism News is a Social News Network about future technologies, innovations and future life.
- It is combination social bookmarking, bloggin, syndication and a democratic editorial system that enables users to collaboratively submit and promote articles.*
- On Singularity is a community for news and discussions around the Technological Singularity, futurism, transhumanism, and emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, and nanotechnology.
- Future Scanner brings social news voting to future predictions; think Digg but only for stories about the future. Content is organized by year and by category and is claimed to be the first “broader media platform dedicated to the future.”
- Shaping Tomorrow exists to help you 'anticipate the future' and 'profit from tomorrow', today!
- We help busy people and organisations manage risk and uncertainty and create opportunities for growth and profits - today. Our members are engaged in strategic and future thinking, trends intelligence and consumer research, business development, design, marketing, media planning, knowledge and change management.
- Every day our editors scan and analyse trends worldwide, and upload relevant articles and studies about the future to Shaping Tomorrow. From our UK headquarters we manage this global team of editors, each with a subject specialization. Our information comes from rigorous and continuous physical searches for quality future-related sites. We are trained environmental scanners and trends researchers, not an automated web crawler. We have backgrounds in professional futures, market research, publishing, and senior management roles in many of the industries we cover.
- Information about developments in technology and science - with links and references to articles on the internet with more details about the technology.
- Scenarios on how the future may develop - based on current and expected trends.Articles on how futurology works.
- wiki-fiction about the future.
- Betterhumans is a community of forward thinkers dedicated to discussing, celebrating and creating the future. Through the facilitation and aggregation of informative and provocative content and the creation and application of enabling communications technology, we aim to get more people thinking about the future, inspire people into assuming a proactive and participatory role in its creation and build, lead and support an informed movement for positive change. (Prior to March 2006, Betterhumans was primarily an editorial production company. You can still browse our archives and visit our old About Us page.)
- The SL4 mailing list is a refuge for discussion of advanced topics in transhumanism and the Singularity, including but not limited to topics such as Friendly AI, strategies for handling the emergence of ultra-powerful technologies, handling existential risks (planetary risks), strategies to accelerate the Singularity or protect its integrity, avoiding the military use of nanotechnology and grey goo accidents, methods of human intelligence enhancement, self-improving Artificial Intelligence, contemporary AI projects that are explicitly trying for genuine Artificial Intelligence or even a Singularity, rapid Singularities versus slow Singularities, Singularitarian activism, and more.
- Thoughtware.Tv, knowing that the future is not something that happens to us, but rather something we create, aims to spread knowledge and positive memes on future technological advancements in order to educate the public on the potential of positively enhancing the human condition.
- The World Transhumanist Association is an international nonprofit membership organization which advocates the ethical use of technology to expand human capacities. We support the development of and access to new technologies that enable everyone to enjoy better minds, better bodies and better lives. In other words, we want people to be better than well.
- The Extropy Institute pioneered the multidisciplinary discussions of future technologies and their social context, and remains a highly valued force in that field
- The Institute for the Future (IFTF) is an independent, nonprofit research group with over 40 years of forecasting experience. The core of our work is identifying emerging trends and discontinuities that will transform global society and the global marketplace. We provide insights into business strategy, design process, innovation, and social dilemmas. Our research generates the foresight needed to create insights that lead to action. Our research spans a broad territory of deeply transformative trends, from health and health care to technology, the workplace, and human identity. The Institute for the Future is located in Palo Alto, CA.
- Transcurve™ is an online transhumanist communication hub.
- Transhumanism, AI, nanotechnology, and extinction risk.
- The Acceleration Studies Foundation (ASF) is a nonprofit community of approximately sixty board members, associates and advisers, and a subscriber network of 3,100 executives, technologists, systems theorists, and futurists
- What’s Next is a trends report offering clear, concise and non-sensationalist commentary on trends in society, business, science & technology, government and the environment. Each issue covers trends across twelve sectors and speculates about future risks and opportunities.
- Social Technologies is one of the world’s leading futurist consultancies. We fuse a longer-term perspective and deep understanding of trends with fresh, effective research and consulting approaches. Our clients receive powerful market insights, foresights, and business solutions through our expanding portfolio of offerings—including many tools and methods developed by our own analysts. Social Technologies’ goal is to prepare our clients for any future that could plausibly emerge. The numerous long-term relationships we enjoy with world-class companies and agencies testify to our results.
- TNTY is an on-going industry gathering which explores both online and at live events, emerging trends and scenarios we might expect to witness in the next two decades. The lecture and showcase series has been an industry insider’s preview of the future since 1996. The live show was started to engage industry leaders, press, policy makers, VCs, and industry analysts in a longer-range exploration of what lies ahead.
- The Arlington Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit research institute that specializes in thinking about global futures and trying to influence rapid, positive change. We strive to be agents of change by creating intellectual frameworks & tool sets for understanding the transition in which we are living.
