WorldFuture 2010: Sustainable Futures, Strategies, and Technologies

July 8-10, 2010
The Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel
Boston, Massachusetts
Professional Members' Forum July 11, 2010

More than 1,000 futurists from around the world will gather to address what tools and strategies we’ll need to envision—and build—desirable futures that are truly sustainable.

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TOPICS: Technology, education, health, business issues, families and communities, work trends, social change, the environment, global perspectives, futures research, government and politics, and much, much more.

SPECIAL EVENTS: Table-top displays, a bookstore with a large selection of future-oriented titles, and meet-the-author sessions. Professional preconference courses on a wide variety of subjects.

NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES: A complimentary welcoming reception, two keynote luncheons, group business meetings, reserved networking areas throughout the meeting, and more.

PRESENTATIONS AND PRECONFERENCE COURSES: Proposal deadline is November 15, 2009.

Prepare yourself for tomorrow's challenges by joining WFS today and enjoy these exclusive member benefits!

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

Search The Futurist Archives for material going back to 1992.

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.