"The future is already here. It's just not widely distributed." Tim O'Reilly



Check out the revolution ignited by authors Eric H. Greenberg, Karl Weber in their 2008 by entitled
Generation We: How Millennial Youth are Taking Over America and Changing Our World.
A free download of the book is available at the link above.

Predicting the future can be hard:
"The browser is a trivial piece of software." -- Bill Gates


NEW!!!The FUTURES of the US for classroom teachers use during the election. View the FUTURES of our choices!

Superstruct IFTF
Play the Game
Gamers’ scores will reflect personal role in humankind’s survival Palo Alto, CA - (Sept 22, 2008) — The Institute for the Future (IFTF) announced today the launch of Superstruct, the world’s first Massively Multiplayer Forecasting Game (MMFG).

Check out the Foresight Education Project (U of Houston) Advocates of Foresight Education nurturing the Future!

Visit the SOURCE: World Future Society

WFS Forecasts for the Next 25 Years Forecast #1: The world will have a billion millionaires by 2025. Globalization and technological innovation are driving this increased prosperity. But challenges to prosperity will also become more acute, such as water shortages that will affect two-thirds of world population by 2025. [... check out the other 24 & add your own!]

The Futurist at MySpace Add the link to your MySpace.. Keep up on the Future!

Trend Source: Shaping Tomorrow newsletter

Future Problem Solving Program International
A non-profit educational corporation administering creative problem solving activities for students in grades K-12 cutting across the Standards.

The Millennium Project (UN) World Competition for Secondary School Students addressing the Global Future.

KnowledgeWorks-Map of Future Education See and hear our coming lives--from our future selves (video)


Future of Education by DaVinci Institute's Thomas Frey

Connectivism an alternative to current learning theories

Edge Thinking for the Future - John Seeley Brown, former director of Xerox Parc
Video interview - 15 min.




Web 3.0 - About Personalization?
"If web 2.0 could be summarized as interaction, web 3.0 must be about recommendation and personalization," -- Jemina Kiss

No one can ever claim to predict the future, but here are some links to glimpses of what is possible already.

Surface Computing from Microsoft video here

Photosynth Demo WOW! WOW!

Epic 2014 - - - - Epic 2015

Epic 2014 is the original flash online movie made by Robin Sloan for the Museum of Media History. Set in 2014 it charts the history of the Internet, the evolving mediascape and the way news and newspapers were affected by the growth in online news. It coined the word "Googlezon" from a future merger of Google and Amazon to form the Google grid, and speaks of news wars with the Times becoming a print only paper for the elite culminating in EPIC Evolving Personalised Information Construct
Epic 2015 is a new updated vision of the future set in 2015.

Predicting the next 5,000 Days on the Web
by Kevin Kelly (19 min) This is a fabulous explanation of what is coming in the future of the web/internet -- explained in easy to understand metaphors.
Network of computers > network of web pages > network of data = personalization > internet of things