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Robert J. Sawyer
The Future in Fiction A conversation with science-fiction author
Award-winning science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer speaks with WIE's Tom Huston about the virtues of good fiction, compelling science, and an active interest in the future.
Robert J. Sawyer
What Would It Be Like to Live Forever? Winner of over thirty-five national and international awards for science fiction writing, prolific and popular sci-fi author Robert J. Sawyer speaks with WIE’s Tom Huston about the future of immortality, the moral implications of living forever, and what challenges we would face if we could sustain our consciousness just as it is . . . forever.
Daniel Burrus
Living in a World of Accelerating Change A technology forecaster and strategic advisor to Fortune 500 companies, Dan Burrus shares his insights about new innovations on the horizon and explores why it’s so important to start thinking about the future today.
John Petersen
Wild Cards, Mayan Prophesy, and Peering Into the Future John Petersen, Arlington Institute founder and renowned futurist, speaks with WIE's Maura O'Connor about the Mayan prophesy for 2012, rapid climate change, and how best to prepare for the end of the world.
Ray Kurzweil
The Enlightened Universe Forward-thinking scientist and inventor Ray Kurzweil shows you not just the shape of things to come but just how soon they're coming!
Jeremy Rifkin
Into the 21st: The Future of Commerce, Economy, and Culture Jeremy Rifkin explores a variety of themes: ethical, economic, and scientific that confront us as the 21st century unfolds.
Articles
The End of the World as We Know It?
WIE talks with futurist John Petersen about 2012, peak oil, and the future of our planet
Issue 37
Designing Utopia
All over the world, designers are becoming optimists, working together on new solutions to the planet’s worst crises
Issue 32
Stranger Than Science Fiction
The World Future Society's annual conference takes a brave look at the culture of tomorrow
Issue 27
Postcards from the Galactic Edge
A few scientists are trying to determine how to teach extraterrestrials the ABCs of human culture
Issue 25
Eye on the Future
We know who you are: human scanners, memory reading, genetic engineering, and the coming loss of anonymity. Issue 25
Faster Forward
Impressions of Our Emerging Future
From the far out to the close at hand, four futurists zoom out for a bird's eye view on the global changes we're experiencing now and can anticipate in the future—each outlining both the unprecedented challenges and mind-spinning opportunities humanity faces in the minutes and years to come Issue 23
Visions of the Future
The Arlington Institute Looks at the World of Tomorrow
Surprising scenarios of promise and peril from John Petersen, founder of futurist think tank, the Arlington Institute. Issue 23
I'm Optimistic
This Internet entrepreneur and philanthropist has a dazzling vision of a 2050 society and some bold ideas to get us there. Issue 19
Has Heaven Died and Gone to Physics? or The Gospel According to Frank
A Book Review of Frank J. Tipler
A review of The Physics of Immortality, Frank J. Tipler's reductionist prophecy of an eternity far stranger than paradise. Issue 11
Our Collective Awakening and the Politics of Consciousness
According to evolutionary activist Duane Elgin, the most vital determining factor in our collective awakening is not mystical experience . . . it’s television. Issue 25
Traditions on the Edge
Can the past meet the future?
Enter a multidimensional journey through history, cyberspace (and small-town America) as a broad spectrum of religious authorities takes on the burning question: How can the world's great traditions cope with the complexities of human life in the 21st century and beyond? Issue 23
Toward Homo Noeticus
An evolutionary thinker gazes into the near future and sees the advent of a new kind of human being. Issue 19
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