Visions

Visions, scenarios, and special coverage of the future exclusively from THE FUTURIST magazine.

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Smart People, Dumb Decisions By Michael J. Mauboussin

Ten Forces Driving Business Futures By Michael Richarme

The Post-Scarcity World of 2050 By Stephen Aguilar-Millan; Ann Feeney; Amy Oberg; Elizabeth Rudd

Poll

What do you want to have more of on the new WFS site?

More long-form articles and profiles of futurists like Lester Brown and Ray Kurzweil

12%

More short articles related to cutting edge science, tech, and demographic research

65%

More news about World Future Society events and activities

More blogs from futurists around the world

16%

Total votes: 49

Tweets from the Year 2030

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Blogs

What Will We Do With All Those Men?

Urban Chinese society is also undergoing changes, as the rituals of courtship, and traditional definitions of family, are challenged. Rapid modernization has led the country to undergo enormous changes. Sex ratios are becoming skewed in much of the world thanks in part to a growing global imbalance of male-to-female ratios.

Advice To My Children

“If you were advising your twenty-something children about investing in a pension, where would you advise them to invest?”

A Bit Of Clarity

We have received a number of requests to clarify and expand upon a point made in our last update. In it we said that “the US stock of debt has a half life of just over 4 years and a coupon of just under 6%, which suggests a very pressing issue for the 2016 US Presidential Election”. We have been asked to explain exactly what that means and what chain of events might be triggered out to 2016.