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Non-profit organization offers seminars and publications related to envisioning future human evolution. Includes nomination information of the Kistler Prize for excellence in human genetics research.
And the United Nations Universitys Millennium Committee. Foundation staff have also routinely written and delivered papers for future study-oriented organizations such as Tamkang University (Taipei), the World Future Studies Federation, and The World Future Society..One of the ways Foundation For the Future fulfills its mandate with regard to diffusing knowledge is to promote public awareness and education about important issues confronting humanity by way of speaking engagements at schools and

- A list of organizations engaged in frontier and visionary work such as future studies, philosophy, personal and social liberation, and advanced technology
Access to them, many groups are working hard to push their own ideas and influence the distribution of ideas that affect their interests, but I do not know of any serious institutional effort that would research (not speaking of facilitating the development of) the architecture of the global body of knowledge and its evolutionary path. The term Memetics was suggested by Richard Dawkins and refers to an emergent discipline studying the co evolution of ideas. My personal effort in Memetic

Annual international conference in Mannheim, Germany.

Non-profit organization focused on sustainable development offers free e-journal and provides environmental scanning services related to trend-spotting.

Nonprofit research and educational organization specializing in aiding organizations and individuals to more wisely choose and create their preferred futures.

Conducts research and public discussion of questions concerning future use of information and communication technologies, especially in the professional and educational worlds. Staff profiles, service

One of the eight Research Institutes of the European Commission (EC), the IPTS organizes regional foresight studies on science and technology to inform political and economic decision-makers.
Services through ICT. These general proposals are then more closely aligned with possible areas of application (level 2), leading to seven more specific proposals for priority areas. The proposals are based on a Web 2.0 consultation of the research communities in Europe and beyond, the results of which were refined in an expert workshop. This brief also sets out the critical success factors that were applied for the formulation of the priority areas proposed, as well as some characteristics for

A project of computer pioneer Daniel Hillis and Whole Earth founder Stewart Brand to develop a 10,000 year clock. This is long-term project that gets people thinking past the mental barrier of the Mil

Think tank of futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers.

Social science research institute which has done extensive research in such areas as social development theory, economics, management, peace and governance, the future of money, the future role of the
Children learn just as they play and as a form of play out of their innate curiosity and urge to acquire knowledge of the environment. Read more. The Society has formulated strategies for widespread application of computers as an instrument for vocational training and distance education. One strategy calls for establishment of a national network consisting of 50,000 private computerized vocational training institutes known as Job Shops . Society staff conducted discussions with the Union

A network of people, projects and ideas for building a world that works.

Background and current activities directed toward achieving a sustainable world that is supportive of all human beings.

Planning, environment and Land Use Issues of Northern British Columbia are all the focus of the Northern Land Use Institute at the University of Northern British Columbia

Community of information theorists, consciousness researchers, and artists. Contains the latest information concerning techno-gnosis, paradigm shifting, quantum realities and the approaching event hor

This is the UACTO Universe. This concerens what we think the future in 2020 will be like.

Explores the feasibility of a future surveillance society in which everyone has access to all the surveillance ("universal transparency of surveillance"); articles, forum, related books, links to rela

For people interested in how social and technological developments are shaping the future. Futurist forecasts, interviews, publications, upcoming events, and organization information.
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A professional society of futures researchers, academics, consultants, and their affiliated organizations. Includes activities, events, newsletter (and archives), membership directory, and members-on
I. *Please send a photocopy of student ID together with the Registration Form. ii. Registration fee covers conference materials, five tea breaks and three lunches. iii. Full payment must be made on or before 15 November 2011.The registration for the conference will take place through our Conference website, which is still under development..Registration and Inclusion in Conference Mailing list Rakesh Kapoor This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view

Non-profit organization supporting research, conferences, education, training, and policy initiatives for environmental stewardship and sustainable development; resources available online include essa
Policy, in Plain English.Ecosystems and human well-being are inextricably linked. Human well-being has significantly improved over the last two centuries the majority of people lead longer, healthier lives. Ecosystem goods and services the benefits provided by nature like fresh water, clean air, fuel, food, medicine, and timber have underpinned most of these improvements. However, three main problems threaten the ability of ecosystems to support human well-being.

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Organization explores implications of new information and communication technologies. Includes press releases, information on events and exhibits, and links to related resources.
Has already begun. Cultural investigations into the urban grids of communicative practices are at the base of mapping options and negotiating conditions of socio-cultural reality. Cultural collaboration, providing a wealth of perspectives and ideas in communication practices, is in itself a transformative process, an agency of change. We need to value the diversity of emerging recombinant interactions and networks of imagination that provide a rich resource for our future cultural heritage. We

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Photos of well-known transmen and links to their sites. Features attorneys, speakers, authors, musicians, activists. Includes memorium to deceased FTM pioneers.
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Suggesting that the human race has a certain genetic potential - an inherent capacity to create a particular form of society - which is now close to realization.

A synthesis of anarchism and transhumanism, centered on the attainment of political, economic, and biological freedom.

News, articles, and links related to scientific advances in human improvement.

Weekly program about technology and politics, produced by Dr. James J. Hughes, transmitting a high-tech vision of a radically democratic future. Frequent topics includes biotechnology, bioethics, spac

Blog and essays that approach progressive politics from a transhumanist perspective.

Transhumanist group which advocates using technology to extend healthy life, augment intelligence, optimize psychology, and improve social systems.

Unique speculative perspective on the possibility of individual humans sharing multiple brains.
Processes. As a shared perception of identity, Homo multifarius is an enhancement to humanity rather than a limitation upon individual freedom. I first published the theory of Homo multifarius by presenting the concept at a special session of the World Future Society Global Conference on the Future held in Toronto in 1980. At this conference I released copies of two papers Future Humans- An Hypothesis and Homo multifarious - A Practical Approach to Achieving Life After Death. (special note)

The putative future process of copying one's mind from the natural substrate of the brain into an artificial one, manufactured by humans.
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Full version of the 1957 essay in which the word 'transhumanism' was used.
Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure only one species, and only a minority of that species, but there lies hope. Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us

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Explores possibilities for the "posthuman" future created by increased merging of people and technology via bioengineering, cybernetics, nanotechnologies, and other emerging innovations. Offers an aca
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Obituaries from North America from the 1860s until the present day. Paid membership required.

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Mailing list index of published obituaries across the world. Intended mostly for family historians, researchers and compilers.

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Subscription database of current and archived death notices and obituaries.
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Index of old obituaries available for a fee. USA and Canada.

A photographic record of churches, churchyards, graveyards and cemeteries plus transcripts of the tombstones. Includes a large collection of related links.

Campaign to help raise awareness about modern slavery and to highlight organizations working against it.

Monitors, documents, and publicizes the plight of slaves around the globe. Focuses on the worst and most-ignored cases of human bondage: black chattel slavery in North Africa. There may be more slaves
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Information and resources about slavery and forced labor systems in the modern world.
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Factsheet from the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights.

The Center of the Modern American Abolishionist Movement inspired by Kevin Bales' book, Disposable People, works to abolish slavery worldwide.

Information about modern slavery in the US and around the world.

Book review of Kevin Bales' study of modern slavery, with case studies from Thailand, Mauritania, Pakistan, Brazil, and India.
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Information and education exchange on the plight of modern slavery, child slavery and prostitition around the world, particularly in Sudan, Mauritania, Sudan, China, India and Thailand.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, slavery has not disappeared from the world. Social scientists are trying to explain its persistence Article by Kevin Bales.

Global coalition working together to help stop the sale of people, to see the traffickers prosecuted and to protect the victims of human trafficking and those vulnerable to this crime.

Provides information on Asian trafficking in persons, of both sexes, in English, Khmer, Tetum and Thai.
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How human trafficking works and why it flourishes. Report from Cambodia. [6:14 streaming audio broadcast, part 1 of 2] (May, 2006)

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Papers from a conference at the Africa Centre, London, marking UN International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. (December, 2000)

Advertising, globalization, immigration, and corporations induce us to work too much to the detriment of family life, and combined with genetic engineering this urge to produce more could result in hu

Analyzes the Disguised Unemployment Problem. Argues that downsizing and job subsidy proposals are wasteful, and squander an opportunity for root reform. Presents the case for income supports, and the

A marketing and PR firm focusing exclusively on the human resources industry with particular emphasis on work/life, EAP and related services.

Online journal about new ways of working.
Planning system is based on the separation of different land uses - in particular keeping work and residences apart. This is a hangover from the Industrial Age, when one might reasonably expect places of employment to be dirty, noisy, smelly and dangerous - in other words, bad neighbours. Most work uses in the post-industrial age, however, are not like this. To some extent this is recognised in the current policies for mixed-use development, most commonly found in town centre regeneration

A site that measures the well-being of people in the nations of the world while taking into account their environmental impact.

Companion site to the PBS series on work. Come share your thoughts, frustrations, and solutions to "The Workday that Wouldn't Die." Plus, learn about alternative work schedules and compelling discussi
Mark Shields and David Brooks analyze the week top stories, including what effect Elizabeth Warren new consumer protection agency will have on banks and consumers. (NewsHour).

How the second industrial revolution (miniaturisation and artificial intelligence) is relentlessly stagnating, frightening and impoverishing our community.
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Mobility - both physical and social is enhanced by new transportation and communications technologies and by the new media. The emergence of alternative patterns of work are the result.

How to make teams work better over long distances using new technology to increase efficiency and reduce travel costs. Features, videos and slides by Fuurist Dr Patrick Dixon.
Siamese twins become confused about where they are in the body - indeed which of the two Siamese twins they are actually in.In normal embryo and foetus development every cell knows where it is in the body because the neighbours produce chemical messages. So a skin cell knows not only it is skin, but that it is - say - nose skin, rather than chin or ear or lip skin. In Siamese twins these chemical messages don& ,t work properly - how can they? The end results can be very bizarre a single organism

The range of alternative work concepts is altogether insufficient. This independent, international co-operative program seeks to identify non-traditional insights, packages, architectures and impleme
Dimensions and the character of the problems before us. In response to this challenge, we propose that this independent international collaborative initiative may well be able to make a useful contribution. The three basic vectors of work under this decade-old program, as it starts out on its new life in September 2000 are., Paris. international visitors since 3 July 1998. Best viewed with.

A website based on the book Ishmael by Michael Quinn which questions why people work hard to retire when the are old. In-depth reading to find the solution to the problem.

Description of the education in aesthetic realism by persons who study and teach it.

Including a discussion of Bronislaw Malinowski and his "Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term," in the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea.

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Grip on reality. In the Western World the dominant scheme became rationality , using rational logic (ratio) got the name understanding . Suppressing most of emotion and steering the rest using 1 logic under name understanding is absolutism disguised. Start 21st century the outlaws outside the western world with emotion attack the rational understanding ... The rising conflicts on the borders of the dominant paradigm temporary result in huge crisis. Better see conflict as inbalance, with reaction

Philosophical terms mostly from ethics and epistemology, edited by Robert Berman.

A free, community developed resource containing information on both science and philosophy.

A dictionary of philosophies from Peter Saint-André, editor of the Monadnock Review.
Ancient Greek school of Cynic philosophers, founded by Antisthenes (a student of Socrates), held that pure virtue is the only good and cultivated an asceticism more rigorous than that of Epicureanism or Stoicism. Because of their disdain for worldly concerns, they were critical of conventional morality and the rest of society, almost to the point of misanthropy. The most famous Cynic was Diogenes (412-323 BCE), who so faithfully put his ideas into practice that, according to legend, he took to

Glossary of philosophical terms focusing on modern philosophy.

A list of philosophical terms and names linked to the major encyclopedias and dictionaries of philosophy on the internet.
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Includes philosophy papers, university distance learning programs and college correspondence courses, and a philosophy dictionary.
Life Wittgenstein always struggled in overcoming the temptations presented by his pride and vanity. Here we can see the struggle experienced by Wittgenstein. On one side, he cannot propose any moral theories or value hierarchies as it is beyond the scope of philosophy. On the other side, he always believed that there is universality in values. These values do not just belong to the realm of human beings and he strongly held that man could not be the measure of values. This struggle is exhibited

Collection of links to philosophy reference sources.
Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Zen, Shambhala,.-Fox R. W. - Kloppenberg J. T. - Fox R. E. (edited by) 1995 , A Companion to American Thought, Blackwell,.-Gregory R. L. (edited by) 1987 , The Oxford Companion to the Mind, Oxford University Press,.-Grimes J. A. 1989 , A concise dictionary of Indian philosophy Sanskrit terms defined in English, State University of New York Press.-Iannone A. P. 2001 , Dictionary of World Philosophy, Routledge,.-Kiernan T. 1962 , Aristotle Dictionary, Philosophical

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Philosophy resource for beginners. Contains philosophers, schools of thought, and topics.

The entrance page to all articles in the philosophy section of the free encyclopedia.

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New Zealand research website. Topics include: the changing distribution of paid and unpaid work; the polarisation of work across households; fertility and 'family-friendly' policies; employment schedu

Lists family friendly working opportunities along with childcare provisions, information about personal finance, self-organisation, family support issues and government benefits.

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