FUTURE/UTOPIA?
| R. Buckminster Fuller | Futurism and Utopianism | Nanotechnology |
| Technology and the Future | Organizations and Individuals | Conscious Evolution |
| Whole Systems | Exponential Growth & Time | Convergence |
Everything I Know
The historic 42-hour session with Bucky, video and text.
Buckminster Fuller: Designer of a New World
A nice overview of Bucky's contributions.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth - Online
This is one of Buck's most accesible books.
R. Buckminster Fuller on PBS
From PBS American Masters Series, Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud.
The World Game Institute
The Institute promotes Bucky's World Game. Using resource databases
and simulating world organizations, the Game demonstrates that there is
enough for all.
Synergetics - Online
This may be Bucky's most complex book.
R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISTORY (and Mystery) OF THE UNIVERSE
A play about Bucky.
The World Future Society
One of the leading futurist organizations.
The Society for Utopian Studies
Not a lot on this page, but an index of articles and book reviews that have been published in their journal & some good links.
Utopian Philosophy
Interesting point-of-view, good links.
Phrenicea®
Pronounced fren-EEE-shuh, it is vision of our future.
Transendental Destination - Where Will the Information Revolution Lead?
A report from the Rand Corporation.
Intentional Communities
An extensive reference to itentional communities, lots of links.
Awakening Earth
Knowledge for a sustainable and compassionate future.
Cultural Creatives
A culturial trend. Utopian?
FutureFile.com
A varied look at the future, lots of links.
Marvin Minsky
A man whose work has certainly influenced the future.
Stephen Hawking's Universe
Does this relate more to the future or the past?
Exploring Dystopia
" Dystopia .... denotes that class of hypothetical societies containing images of worlds worse than our own."
Minnesota Futurists
An Association for the Study of Alternative Futures
* Aldous Huxley
* Plato - The Republic - Online *
* Thomas Moore - Utopia - Online
* The Millennium Project *
* Walden - Thoreau
* The H.G. Wells Society
* Utopia and Counter-Utopia *
* Activism, Collective Action, Social Movements, Utopianism *
* The Principality of New Utopia
* Futurist.com
* 21 Doors to the Future*
*Looking Backward
*MEMOIRS OF THE FUTURE By: Eduard Prugovecki*
*The Iron Heel
*Theories of Utopia and Dystopia
*Utopian Computer Networking
*Infinite Futures
*Potentials
*Utopos Discovered
*
Technomanifesto
Implications of the information revolution.
There's a Robot in Your Future
The future of robots.
How to Build a Time Machine
From Scientific American: "It wouldn't be easy, but it might be possible."
Space Daily
"Your portal to space."
Ocean Wave Generating Company
New energy technology.
Why the Future Doesn't Need Us
" ... robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species."
Bill Joy
More about the author of "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us.
Beyond 2000
"Your window on the future."
Hackwriters - The Future Index
Some really good stuff here.
200 Futures for 2002
200 prdictions for 2020.
fUSION Anomaly
You've got to see this -- unusual organization for a Web page.
Principia Cybernetica Web
Developing a philosophy of the future.
New Civilization Network
Linking the people who change the world.
Association of World Citizens
The Association of World Citizens (AWC) is an international peace organization with World Citizen Centers established in 50 countries.
Extropy Institute
Extropy Institute acts as a networking and information center for those seeking to foster our continuing evolutionary advance by using technology to extend healthy life, augment intelligence, optimize psychology, and improve social systems.
Alvin Toffler and the Third Wave
Alvin Toffler is one of the world's most well-known futurists.
Howard Rheingold's Brainstorms
Author and editor, expert on virtual communities.
Stewart Brand's Home Page
Originator of the Whole Earth Catalog.
Kevin Kelly
Founding editor of Wired Magazine, former editor and publisher of Whole Earth Review.
Gilder Articles Index
Articles by George Gilder.
Great Thinkers and Visionaries
An interesting collection, some good links.
* Revelations of the Future Kind *
* The Gaia Bella Project * Open Directory Project *
The Center for Conscious Evolution
Gateway to our conscious evolution.
Conscious Evolution
Answers the question, "What is conscious evolution?"
Evolution of Cooperation
"How can we explain the evolution of complex cooperative organizations (altruism, ultrasociality) in humans, ... ?
Conscious Evolution and the Emergence of Integral Culture
Excellent paper.
Conscious Evolution
Great graphics, I have some problem with the eugenics slant to this site.
Earthscape
An interesting perspective.
John C. Lilly Homepage
A very interesting man.
Memetics Publications on the Web
" ... cognitive-behavioral pattern that can be transmitted from one individual to another one through communication."
Quantum Evolution
" ... bold hypothesis that quantum physics plays a key role in the origin and evolution of life ..."
The Conscious Evolution Network
" ... to bring forth the universal human in each of us ..."
What's in a Meme?
I'm not sure how well this fits here, but here it is.
Trans and Post-humanity
A variety of views of where the species might be headed.
Extropy
A journal of transhumanist solutions.
A Globe Clothing Itself With a Brain
A Wired magaine article on Teilhard de Chardin and net-based consciousness.
The Noosphere
The evolving sphere of knowledge/cognivity surrounding our planet.
The Omega Point
At the instant the Omega Point is reached, life will have gained control of all matter.
Gaia
Theory that the planet earth is one giant organism.
Noosphere
The expanding web of consciousness.
Cosmogenesis
Teilhard's Gnosis.
The Global Mind Hypothesis
The next stage in evolution?
The Integration Web Site
A lot here about attaining the next stage of evolution.
Collective Intelligence Large collection of good links.
Out of Control - The New Biology of Machines
Kevin Kellys mind boggling book, online.
A Curriculum for Cybernetics and Systems Theory
An excellent overview and a fun page.
Complexity, Complex Systems & Chaos Theory Organizations as Self-Adaptive Complex Systems
Very detailed site, lots of links.
Cybernetics, Systems Theory and Complexity
Another detailed site with lots of links.
Swenson's Pages on Systems
" ... solution-focused problem solving, self-organizing processes, dissipative structures,..., chaos theory, paradigm shift, ..."
Whole Systems
Good links.
Gaia
The Earth as a living system.
Tyranny of the Moment
"Fast and slow time in the information age." -- a book preview.
fUSION Anomaly -- Time
Different views of time.
What is the Singularity?
A definition.
Technology Reaches Toward... Singularity
The organization.
Staring Into the Singularity
Very comprehensive.
Singularity Watch
"Interpreting a world of accelerating change."
Nonotechnology and the Singularity
A thought provoking interview.
Singularity - Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Singularity, artificial intelligence and nanotechnology.
The Singularitarian Principles
About being a singularitarian.
The Law of Accerating Returns
"The Intuitive Linear View versus the Historical Exponential View."
Logtime: The Subjective Scale of Life
"The Logarithmic Time Perception Hypothesis."
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