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2010 at Foundation For the Future
For fourteen years Foundation For the Future has brought together leading thinkers and scholar experts from multiple disciplines to discuss the important
issues that will have an impact on the long-term future of humanity, then published transcripts or video or audio captures of
those conversations and authoritative viewpoints. Last year we introduced a new program, the Walter P. Kistler Lecture Series, to bring to the public, free-of-charge, direct access to expert information on topics that impact humanity.
NEWS AND PLANNED EVENTS
September 22, 2010
Foundation For the Future has selected genomics pioneer Dr. Leroy Hood as the 2010 winner of the Kistler Prize. The annual Kistler Prize recognizes original contributions to the understanding of the connection between the human genome and human society. Dr. Hood, Co-founder and President of the Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, is one of the world's leading scientists in systems biology, biotechnology, immunology, and genomics. More…
Third Lecturer of the Walter P. Kistler Lecture Series
Town Hall Seattle • October 13, 2010, at 7:30 p.m.
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED FREE OF CHARGE
University of Washington professor and paleontologist Peter D. Ward will speak 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. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing. This lecture is free-of-charge to the public. More…
 “Global Transitions and Asia 2060”
Taipei, Taiwan • November 3–6, 2010
A workshop entitled “Global Transitions and Asia 2060: Climate, Economy, and Identity” will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, in November under the joint sponsorship of Foundation For the Future, Tamkang University (Taipei), and Kyung Hee University (Seoul). The focus of the workshop is the 40- to 60-year future of Asia in the context of Asia’s emergence as the potential global center of power, influence, and control in the upcoming decades. The invitation-only workshop will bring together prominent scientists and scholars in geopolitics, economics, and sustainability.
RECENT EVENTS
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
Bellevue, WA • 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…
Second Lecture of the Walter P. Kistler Lecture Series
Seattle, WA • November 2009
Dr. Brian Fagan takes us on a journey through humanity’s complex relationship with water over the past 5,000 years. From the present, he looks into the future, into a world where the wars of coming generations are likely to revolve around access to water in an increasingly warmer and drier world. More…
Seattle, WA • October 2009
Foundation For the Future selected Dr. Svante Pääbo as the 2009 winner of the Kistler Prize. Dr. Pääbo, a biologist specializing in evolutionary genetics, is Director of the Department of Genetics at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
Dr. Pääbo was honored for a body of work with ancient DNA, beginning in 1984 with the demonstration of DNA survival in a 2,400-year-old mummy. More…
First Lecture of the NEW Walter P. Kistler Lecture Series
Seattle, WA • September 2009
Foundation For the Future launched its latest program, the Walter P. Kistler Lecture Series, on September 29 with a lecture by renowned paleoanthropologist Dr. Donald C. Johanson, discoverer of the 3.2-million-year-old hominid “Lucy,” perhaps the best known and most studied fossil hominid, which revolutionized the study of human origins. More…
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“Water: The Elixir of Humanity” by Dr. Brian Fagan
“Darwin and Human Evolution” by Dr. Donald C. Johanson