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2012 at Foundation For the Future
From 1996 through 2011, Foundation For the Future was focused on increasing and diffusing knowledge concerning the long-term future of humanity. This ambitious mission was pursued by means of extensive program offerings featuring seminars and workshops that provided a platform for experts from all over the world, publications distributed globally, prestigious awards, free public lectures, and a research grant awards program. With 2012, we have entered a new era, one dedicated to encouraging and supporting grant projects. Learn more…
RECENT EVENTS
Humanity 3000 Workshop • October 2011
World population is on course to reach 9 billion by 2044, from today’s 7 billion. China's long-held position as the world's most populous country will likely be surpassed by 2030 by India, which is adding 17.5 million to 20 million humans annually. At the same time, declines in citizen populations of many advanced economies, including the USA, are being offset by legal and illegal immigration so that their net populations are increasing. Still other long-established nation-states are providing incentives to procreate because they are seeing net declines. More…
Walter P. Kistler Book Award • October 2011
In an exclusive dinner ceremony October 26, Foundation For the Future awarded the 2011 Walter P. Kistler Book Award to geoscientist Laurence C. Smith for his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, published by Dutton in 2010 (UK edition titled The New North: The World in 2050). Dr. Smith is Professor and Vice-Chair in the Department of Geography and Professor in the Department of Earth & Space Sciences at UCLA. He is the eighth recipient of the award, which was established in 2003 to recognize authors of science-based books that significantly increase the public's knowledge and understanding about subjects that will shape the future of our species. More…
Kistler Prize • September 2011
Foundation For the Future selected political scientist and author Dr. Charles A. Murray as the 2011 recipient of the Kistler Prize. Dr. Murray is the W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and is best known for his book The Bell Curve (1994), co-authored with the late Richard J. Herrnstein. Other important publications include Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality (2008) and Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950–1980 (1984), which has been credited as the intellectual foundation for the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. Dr. Murray was honored with the Kistler Prize in recognition of his ongoing writings in the relationship of human abilities to public policy. More…
Fourth Lecturer of the Walter P. Kistler Lecture Series
May 2011
Norman Myers, British environmentalist and expert on population pressures, teaches at Oxford University's Centre for Environment. He's also an Adjunct Professor at Duke University and Visiting Professor at University of Vermont and University of Cape Town. He was at Town Hall, Seattle, in May to address how population growth in the US and elsewhere affects the world's problems and what we can do about it. More…
Taipei, Taiwan • November 2010
A conference entitled “Global Transitions and Asia 2060: Climate, Political-Economy, and Identity” was held in Taipei, Taiwan, in November under the joint sponsorship of Tamkang University (Taipei), Foundation For the Future, and Kyung Hee University (Seoul). The purpose of the conference was to embed a long-term futures thinking approach in current policy discussions on the future of Asia in academic, governmental, and business arenas. The invitation-only conference brought together prominent scientists and scholars from a variety of disciplines including geopolitics, education, philosophy, security, environmental activism, and futures studies. More…
Third Lecturer of the Walter P. Kistler Lecture Series
October 2010
University of Washington professor and paleontologist Peter D. Ward spoke on sea-level change. Dr. Ward is a professor of biology and of Earth and space sciences at UW, and an astrobiologist with NASA. Among his more acclaimed books are Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe (with Donald Brownlee, 2000) and Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future (2007). His latest book, The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps, was published in June. More…
A Talk by Sesh Velamoor
Trustee & Director of Programs, Foundation For the Future
June 2010
Sesh Velamoor routinely speaks and writes on aspects of the long-term future in local, national, and international journals and fora. Following is a speech given at both the 2010 Eastside Leadership Conference on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington, and in the Evening MBA Program at a University of Washington campus.
This presentation emphasizes the state of the world, including emerging transitions, worldviews and paradigms, and five key sets of ideas for leaders – along with suggested homework and a recommended reading list. More…
Humanity 3000 Workshop
April 2010
Water is emerging as a bigger crisis for humanity than oil, but few in the general public are aware of the urgent need to address this issue. In this invitation-only workshop, Foundation For the Future put sharp focus on the subject by convening internationally recognized experts for face-to-face discussions on the coming water crisis. More…
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“Global Population and the Planetary Future – 2100”
Dr. Laurence C. Smith Receives Book Award
