The Futures Foundation

Signals: September 2004 Written by Tim Longhurst    Wednesday, 15 September 2004 Last Updated ( Monday, 24 January 2005 ) Read more...   Smart Mobs: the Power of the Mobile Many Written by Jan Lee Martin    Wednesday, 15 September 2004 On 20 January 2001, President Joseph Estrada of the Philippines became the first head of state in history to lose power to a smart mob. "Following the abrupt ending of his impeachment trial by sympathetic senators, Manila residents began to assemble on Epifanio de los Santas Avenue (known as ‘Edsa'). Within 75 minutes, 20,000 people had converged on Edsa, mobilised and coordinated by waves of text messages initiated by opposition leaders: ‘Go 2EDSA, Wear blck'. Over four days, more than a million people showed up, mostly dressed in black. The military withdrew support from the regime; the Estrada government fell. "The rapid assembly of the anti-Estrada crowd was a hallmark of early smart mob technology, and the millions of text messages exchanged by the demonstrators in 2001 were, by all accounts, a key to the crowd's esprit de corps," says Howard Rheingold. "The legend of ‘Generation Txt' was born." Last Updated ( Monday, 24 January 2005 ) Read more...   Of leadership, cooperation and government Written by Jan Lee Martin    Wednesday, 15 September 2004 Governments don't move; they morph, according to Karen Stephenson, professor of management at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. "Built on the skeletal remains of past policies they grow incrementally like a coral reef, changing the ecosystem around them. And, like coral reefs, they are vast structures, difficult to chart thoroughly." In an essay that explores past and future ideas about structures including markets, hierarchies and networks, she notes that "whether the jungles are green and leafy or concrete, they are brimming with intricate webs of relationships, which when viewed from afar reveal elementary structures". Last Updated ( Monday, 24 January 2005 ) Read more...   Signals: August 2004 Written by Tim Longhurst    Sunday, 15 August 2004 Last Updated ( Monday, 24 January 2005 ) Read more...   Signals: July 2004 Written by Tim Longhurst    Thursday, 15 July 2004 Last Updated ( Monday, 24 January 2005 ) Read more...   Signals: June 2004 Written by Tim Longhurst    Tuesday, 15 June 2004 Last Updated ( Monday, 24 January 2005 ) Read more...   Signals: May 2004 Written by Tim Longhurst    Saturday, 15 May 2004 Last Updated ( Tuesday, 25 January 2005 ) Read more...   Signals: April 2004 Written by Tim Longhurst    Thursday, 15 April 2004 Last Updated ( Tuesday, 25 January 2005 ) Read more...   Signals: March 2004 Written by Tim Longhurst    Monday, 15 March 2004 Last Updated ( Tuesday, 25 January 2005 ) Read more...   Has "Boomeritis" hijacked the future? Written by Jan Lee Martin    Monday, 15 March 2004 As the news media continue to report visible shifts in values in Australia, is it time to look for the long-anticipated emotional revolution among today's adults? Or is futurist Ken Wilber right when he says this revolution has been hijacked and stalled by the narcissism of the boomer generation that he calls "Boomeritis"? Last Updated ( Monday, 24 January 2005 ) Read more...

Integration the new wave for futures Written by Jan Lee Martin    Monday, 15 March 2004 Practical futuring work around the world is at risk from superficial thinking, dated methods and redundant paradigms, says Professor Richard Slaughter of the Australian Foresight Institute at Swinburne University. The good news is that new approaches now offer the opportunity to lift standards and improve results. Last Updated ( Tuesday, 25 January 2005 ) Read more...   Signals: February 2004 Written by Tim Longhurst    Sunday, 15 February 2004 Last Updated ( Tuesday, 25 January 2005 ) Read more...   If teens will rule the world, should we listen to what they say? Written by Jan Lee Martin    Sunday, 15 February 2004 Young people named education as the top issue when they were asked "what are the three things changing in Australia today that most concern you?". Other top issues in the survey, conducted by the Business Council of Australia last year, were the environment, growing intolerance and racism and the treatment of immigrants and refugees. The 323 respondents were all under 30. Last Updated ( Tuesday, 25 January 2005 ) Read more...   Signals: November 2003 Written by Tim Longhurst    Saturday, 15 November 2003 Last Updated ( Tuesday, 25 January 2005 ) Read more...   Signals: October 2003 Written by Tim Longhurst    Wednesday, 15 October 2003 Last Updated ( Tuesday, 25 January 2005 ) Read more...   Signals: September 2003 Written by Tim Longhurst    Monday, 15 September 2003 Last Updated ( Tuesday, 25 January 2005 ) Read more...   Signals: August 2003 Written by Tim Longhurst    Friday, 15 August 2003 Last Updated ( Tuesday, 25 January 2005 ) Read more...   Signals: July 2003 Written by Tim Longhurst    Tuesday, 15 July 2003 Last Updated ( Tuesday, 25 January 2005 ) Read more...   Signals: May / June 2003 Written by Tim Longhurst    Sunday, 15 June 2003 Last Updated ( Tuesday, 25 January 2005 ) Read more...   Signals: April 2003 Written by Tim Longhurst    Tuesday, 15 April 2003 Last Updated ( Tuesday, 25 January 2005 ) Read more...

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