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Zoom and Bloom, Not Doom and Gloom

Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged future, optimism on November 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

7 Best-Case Scenarios for the Future of Humanity

Most science fictional and futurist visions of the future tend towards the negative — and for good reason. Our environment is a mess, we have a nasty tendency to misuse technologies, and we’re becoming increasingly capable of destroying ourselves. But civilizational demise is by no means guaranteed. Should we find a way to manage the risks and avoid dystopic outcomes, our far future looks astonishingly bright. Here are seven best-case scenarios for the future of humanity.

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The Improvements Are Happening Faster Than the Collapse

Posted in Web Sites, tagged future, solutions, sustainability on July 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Not just angry complaints, but constructive solutions

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Try Changing the Images You Carry Around in Your Mind

Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged future, history, optimism on June 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

No Doomsday

Dr. Ridley’s prediction for the rest of the century:

Prosperity spreads, technology progresses, poverty declines, disease retreats, fecundity falls, happiness increases, violence atrophies, freedom grows, knowledge flourishes, the environment improves and wilderness expands.

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Pronoia Says: the Future Is What You Make It

Posted in Web Sites, tagged future, letters on March 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Send a love letter to the future

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Expecting the Worst Is Just Another Form of Superstition

Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged future, ray kurzweil on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Future Is Going to Be Very Exciting

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Our Time Has Come

Posted in Books, tagged future, right brain, thinking on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink

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Just for Fun, Visualize the Best

Posted in Books, tagged america, future, marianne williamson on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Imagine: What America Could be in the 21st century by Marianne Williamson

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Overthrowing the Doom and Gloom

Posted in Books, tagged 21st century, america, future, marianne williamson on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Imagine: What America Could be in the 21st century edited by Marianne Williamson

The writers in this optimistic anthology didn’t want to buy into the typical doomsayer theories and gloomy forecasts when imagining the future of America. Instead, editor Marianne Williamson assembled a soul-stirring gospel choir to sing out vivid, uplifting songs of hope and imagination.

One reader at amazon says:

I almost did not buy this book, and I say that because an awful lot of really smart folks might be inclined to turn away on the basis of the title and the possibility that this is a fairy tale wishful-thinking la la land kind of book. It is not. It is practical and political.

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Some Prophets Aren’t Doom and Gloomers, They’re Zoom and Bloomers

Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged future, john tierney, ray kurzweil on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The Law of Accelerating Returns

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I Dare You to Imagine Taboo Happiness and Fulfillment

Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged future, science on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Will the future be better than we can imagine?

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In Search of the Miraculous

Posted in Articles & Essays, Books, tagged change, future on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The 2008 Shift Report: Changing the Story of Our Future

“We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history — a change in the actual belief structure of Western society. No economic, political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are changing the world.”

— Willis Harman, Global Mind Change

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