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Future Salons are free monthly educational, activist, and social events, created by volunteer Salon leaders (perhaps you?) to make our rapidly changing world more fascinating, manageable, profitable, and positive-sum for all of us. We strive to be both doing-action-project oriented, and thinking-idea-prioritizing oriented.

The word "Salon" is a European term for an intimate, supportive deliberation community. Future Salons are focused on existing or emerging scientific, technological, entrepreneurial, or social change topics and projects worthy of your help and attention. We also cover critical-thinking, management, and personal change topics, and occasionally longer-term scientific and philosophical topics.

Future Salons explicitly seek to expand your network of critical-thinking, positive change agents in four primary areas: Science (scientists, sci. writers, science geeks, educators, policy developers, etc), Technology (engineers, developers, hackers, makers, inventors, writers, educators, etc.), Business (entrepreneurs, financiers, socially responsible managers, org. developers, consultants, etc.), and Society (futurists, H+ers, social innovators, sustainability leaders, freethinkers, skeptics, etc.).

Good foresight requires good hindsight (history knowledge) and great insight (current events and skills knowledge). Come join us fun and useful discussions on key trends, innovations, problems, sustainability, and social responsibility. Work with and on new tools, practices, ideas and projects. See the future and sieze the present. Grow your network of supportive, future-oriented friends.

Visit and post to our Future Salon Community Blog at FutureSalon.com

Watch our vimeo channel of select Future Salon Videos.

Listen to audio recording of select Future Salon events and past conferences at ITConversations.

Speaker suggestions? Add them at our Future Salon Network Wiki

Are you a Future Salon moderator? Join our FS Moderators Forum (30 members) to communicate with other foresight culture promoters around the world.

While both liberals and conservatives speak at Future Salons, our political slant strives to be neither right or left wing, but what futurist FM Esfandiary called upwing. We seek policies that will measurably advance both collective and individual intelligence, diversity, ethics, resiliency, and capability, to the greatest degree for the greatest number of life forms on this planet. Both progressives and conservatives, protectionists and free-marketers, sustainability and innovation policy bring critical elements to the upwinger agenda. As Adam Smith, Henry Adams, FM Esfandiary, Alvin Toffler, Carl Sagan, Gerard Peil, Ray Kurzweil and many others have noted, the world is progressing at an accelerating pace, and we need to recognize and guide that process. We call this being acceleration-aware, or more simply, accelaware. Modern political priorities must start with a recognition of the magnitude and dimensions of rapidly advancing global scientific and technical progress, as well as the many roadblocks to that progress, and the opportunities, challenges, and dangers that progress brings, particularly at first, before it is well-integrated into business and society.

Future Salons typically meet once per month. All are free and open to the public. Sign up at each salon's Yahoo or Google Group for discussions and local events, and their Facebook or Meetup group for notifications of meetings and social networking with other local Salon members. Come add your insights and energy to the mix!

Ready to meet and friend other Salon leaders and Salon goers nationally and internationally? Become a fan of ASF's Future Salon Facebook page (250 fans, just started), join ASF's Global Foresight Facebook group (1,200 members) for general foresight conversations, and our Global Foresight - Linked In group (1,000 members) for business foresight discussions and networking. Grow your foresight network.

Finally, visit (and add to) ASFs GlobalForesight.org wiki for our directory of the best foresight networks, programs, people, orgs and resources on the planet today.

We are looking forward to meeting you soon!

Bay Area Future Salon    DETAILS

WHEN: 3rd Fri of Every Month
WHERE: SAP, Bldg D, Southern Cross Room,
3410 Hillview Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304
MODERATOR: Mark Finnern (email | weblog)
Video Archive | Salon Weblog

NEXT MEETING:

See Yahoo! Group home page (currently 880 members, active)

Beijing Futurists NEW   DETAILS

WHEN: See Facebook Group
WHERE: Beijing, China
MODERATOR: Bridget Coila (email | weblog).

NEXT MEETING:

See Facebook Group home page (currently 70 members, active)

Boulder Future Salon  DETAILS

WHEN: 4th Fri of Every Month
WHERE: Boulder Bookstore, Upper Room North,
1107 Pearl St, Boulder, CO 80302
MODERATORS: Amanda Hargis, Wayne Radinsky (email)

NEXT MEETING:

See Meetup Group (primary, currently 58 members, active) or Yahoo! Group (secondary, 79 members)

DC Future Salon    DETAILS

WHEN: 1st Wed of Every Month
WHERE: Bethesda Community Ctr.
MODERATORS: Ben Goertzel (email), and Melanie Swan

NEXT MEETING:

See Yahoo! Group home page (currently 100 inactive—needs moderator)

Honolulu Futures Salon   DETAILS

WHEN: 1st Wed of Every Month
WHERE: University of Hawaii at Manoa
MODERATORS: Jake Dunagan (email) & Stuart Candy (email)

NEXT MEETING:

See Yahoo! Group home page (currently 16 members, semi-active)

Las Vegas Future Salon   DETAILS

WHEN: 2nd Fri of Every Month
WHERE: Borders, 2190 N. Rainbow, Las Vegas, NV (Usually)
MODERATORS: Gilda Cabral (email), Mike Korns, Mark Klein, and Sheila Klein

NEXT MEETING:

See Yahoo! Group home page (currently 260 members, active)

LA Mindshare NEW   DETAILS

WHEN: Second or Third Fridays
WHERE: Downtown LA
Los Angeles, CA
MODERATORS: Doug Campbell and Adam Mefford

NEXT MEETING:

See Facebook Group (currrently 1,740 members) for Mindshare LA, the successor to LA Future Salon. See LA Future Salon - Events, for a local future-oriented events posting list (currently 630 members).

Manila Future Salon NEW   DETAILS

WHEN: See Yahoo Group
WHERE: Manila, Philippines
MODERATORS: Gilda Cabral (email) and Mike Korns.

NEXT MEETING:

See Yahoo Group home page (currently 250 members, active)

New York City Future Salon   DETAILS

WHEN: See Meetup Group
WHERE: NYC metro area
MODERATORS: Ella Grapp (email)

NEXT MEETING:

See Meetup Group home page (currently 400 members, active)

Philadelphia Future Salon  NEW  DETAILS

WHEN: 1st Thurs of Every Month
WHERE: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, 1835 Market St, 14th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19103
MODERATORS: Tim "Flipper Peregrine" Allen (email), Don Bain (email), Melanie Swan, & Frank Taney (email)

NEXT MEETING:

See Google Group home page (currently 180 members, semiactive—needs comoderator)

Seattle/Pacific Northwest Future Salon   DETAILS

WHEN: See Yahoo Group
WHERE: U. of Phoenix, and other locations in the greater Seattle area.
MODERATORS: Jan Vandenbos (email), Ryan Rawson, and Dave Gould
Salon Wiki

NEXT MEETING:

See Yahoo! Group home page (currently 56 members, semiactive—needs comoderator)

San Diego Future Salon   DETAILS

WHEN: Last Sunday of Every Month
WHERE: Barnes & Noble, 10775 Westview Parkway,
San Diego, CA 92126
PAST MODERATORS: Lisa Tansey (email), Rob Sperry, and Star Fitzgerald

NEXT MEETING:

See Yahoo! Group home page (currently 163 members, inactive—needs moderator)

Santa Cruz Future Salon DETAILS

WHEN: See Yahoo Group
WHERE: UC Santa Cruz and Borders Bookstore, 1200 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
MODERATORS: Miguel F. Aznar (email), Jeff Jones (email) & Max Comess (email)

NEXT MEETING:

See Yahoo! Group home page (currently 94 members, inactive—needs moderator)

Second Life Future Salon   DETAILS

WHEN: See Yahoo Group
WHERE: Inside the free and easy-to-join 3D Online World, Second Life
MODERATORS (PAST): Jerry Paffendorf (email | weblog) & Timothy Moenk (email)
Audio Archive | Salon Weblog

NEXT MEETING:

See Yahoo! Group home page (currently 133 members, inactive—needs moderator)

Singapore Futurists NEW   DETAILS

WHEN: See Facebook Group
WHERE: Singapore
MODERATORS: Stefan Pernar (email | website)

NEXT MEETING:

See Facebook Group home page (currently 81members, active)

Tucson H+ Future Salon (aka H+ Club) NEW   DETAILS

WHEN: See Facebook Group
WHERE: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
MODERATORS: Richard Leis Jr. (email) & Simone Syed (email)
Salon Weblog

NEXT MEETING:

See Facebook Group home page (currently 208 members, active)