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Interested in the future of the the web? See our free public foresight report: the Metaverse Roadmap (MVR): Pathways to the 3D Web.

The MVR is an extensive 10-year technology forecast and 20-year visioning survey of virtual and 3D Web technologies, markets, and applications. Made possible by generous start-up support from The Electric Sheep Company.

See Interviews at Imagining the Internet, and visit the MVR Website for the full, free report.

 
 
 

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  An international conference, listserve, publication series, and wiki community of scholars exploring evolutionary and developmental processes in the universe and its subsystems, and thereby seeking to advance the science, systems theory and methods of foresight. What is accelerating change? How do we differentiate predictable and unpredictable process on the universal scale? Join us!

1. Looking for a directory of global foresight? Visit Global Foresight.org, ASF's wiki directory of Networks, Events, Programs, People, Orgs, and Resources for emerging global foresight culture.

2. Like to meet other foresighted folks in your local community? Start a Future Salon, on your own or with a co-moderator. Invite interesting local thinkers to give free talks on future-oriented topics once a month (or less), and go to dinner afterward for more conversation. Grow your network of change- and innovation-oriented friends!

3. Want a credential in foresight work? See Foresight Graduate Programs - Global List, ASF's list of fifteen Primary and forty-one Secondary graduate programs in strategic foresight or futures studies. Consider these if you want interdisciplinary training in thinking about accelerating change.

4. Are you a foresight student, educator, researcher, employer, alum, or advocate? Join the Foresight Education and Research Network (FERN) at FERNweb.org, a global community of foresight students, researchers, educators (K-12, university, professional) and employers working on projects to advance foresight education and research.

5. Interested in learning and advancing the science and systems theory relevant to acceleration studies? Visit the Evo Devo Universe research community, an ASF-sponsored global network of scholars exploring and critiquing evolutionary and developmental hypotheses and models of change in the universe and its subsystems.

6. Can ASF help your organization? Contact us if you'd like talks or workshops, or contract research to better understand and guide accelerating technological change. Join our newsletter for occasional updates. Thanks!


PREVIOUS ASF CONFERENCES

Evo Devo Universe 2008: Predictable and unpredictable aspects of universal change.

Metaverse Roadmap Summit 2006: Mapping Pathways to the 3D Web

Accelerating Change 2005: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence Amplification

Accelerating Change 2004: Physical Space, Virtual Space, and Interface

Accelerating Change 2003: Exploring the Future of Accelerating Change

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