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Announcements

2011 Kistler Prize
Call for Nominations

• Deadline: September 30, 2010

Streaming Video

Playlists

• Feature Films
• Kistler Prize
• Scholar Interviews
• Scholar Lectures
• Scholar Visions

 

Recent Publications

“Water – The Crisis Ahead” Executive Summary

Foundation News Vol. 12

• Fall 2009  [1.9 MB PDF]

“Anthropogenic Climate Change: A Worst-case Scenario” Executive Summary

“Energy Challenges” Executive Summary

All Foundation publications are available for download from our Publications page.

 

Planned Events

11th Annual Kistler Prize

• September 22, 2010

Peter Ward Lecture

• Walter P. Kistler Lecture Series
• Town Hall Seattle
• October 13, 2010

“Global Transitions and Asia 2060” Workshop

• Taipei, Taiwan
• November 3–6, 2010

 

RECENT Events

Talk by Sesh Velamoor

• "Managing the Future"
• July 2010

“Water – The Crisis Ahead”

• Humanity 3000 Workshop
• April 2010  [AUDIO FILES]

Brian Fagan Lecture

• Walter P. Kistler Lecture Series
• November 2009

10th Annual Kistler Prize

• October 2009

Donald Johanson Lecture

• Walter P. Kistler Lecture Series
• September 2009

 

 

 

 

Foundation For the Future

Programs

 

The Foundation For the Future manages a number of programs designed to further its goal of increasing knowledge about the factors that may have a major impact on the long-term future of humanity.

 

Humanity 3000

A major program of symposia, seminars, and workshops designed to convene scholars from diverse backgrounds and challenge them to debate the factors affecting the long-term future of humanity.

Center for Human Evolution

A series of workshops hosted by the Foundation with a focus on understanding the evolutionary factors affecting the long-term future of humanity.
 

Walter P. Kistler Lecture Series

The Walter P. Kistler Lecture Series was established to create direct access by the general public to information from experts on critical and urgent issues facing humanity today and into the future.

Education and Outreach

A program fostering public awareness concerning the long-term future of our species through financial support for educational workshops, films, and websites; papers delivered at futures conferences; and through speaking engagements.

The Next Thousand Years Television Series

A four-program science documentary film series now in project planning for public television.
 

Films and Videos

A program that develops video productions and sponsors production of films aimed at increasing and diffusing knowledge concerning the long-term future of humanity.
 

Publications

A program that publishes proceedings with transcripts of Foundation seminars, symposia, and workshops, in addition to newsletters, brochures, and other printed and media materials on the long-term future of humanity.