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10 Key Questions for Women in the AI Era The theme of International Women’s Day 2026, "Give to Gain," puts the focus on collaboration and knowledge sharing, which have always guided...

#GiveToGain: Ten key questions for women in the #AI era

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www.vox.com Minneapolis is showing a new kind of anti-Trump resistance

Minneapolis is showing a new kind of anti-Trump resistance

[WEBINAR] What the Future: Family Hear more about dynamics and implications for businesses across consumer goods, retail, technology and media, healthcare, financial services and caregiving.

New on-demand webinar: the #future of #families. If you want to know the way society is moving, pay attention to the family.
#Futurist #Futurism #Foresight #Demographics #Society #Culture #Family #Childhood #Generations #GenBeta #Household #Marriage #Population #Aging
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Learning with Machines, Sat, Feb 7, 2026, 4:00 PM | Meetup Many of us are making increasing use of AI systems to help us study, conduct research, develop forecasts, draft policies, and explore all sorts of new possibilities. The re

I’m delighted to share that I’ll be joining London Futurists on February 7 for a live webinar, “Learning with Machines."
Registration is free and the webinar will be hosted on Zoom at 4pm UK time.
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#Futurism #AI #EmergingTech #Education

Crossing The Threshold Civilization has transformed through significant thresholds, marked by failures of continuity leading to new structures. Major transitions from Hunter-Gatherer to Agricultural, Agricultural to Axia…

What triggers civilizational transformation?
Surplus turns movement into settlement, Philosophy outpaces empire, Ideas break dogma’s grip, Energy rewires the world - 4 transitions. One underlying pattern
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Vote for the Best Time Futurists Trainers and Thought Leaders - Global Gurus The Worlds Best Futurists Speakers Trainers In the Futurists Speakers category, vote for those Futurists speakers and trainers who have made a profound impact on you, your team or your organization. V...

Happy Friday, #BlueSky network! I would really appreciate your vote as Futurist Guru 2026.
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[Ludogogy] 다음 세대와 함께 게임 플레이 2040년에 사람들은 무엇을 플레이하고 싶습니까?미래학자로서 저는 스캐닝(scanning)이라는 기술에 크게 의존합니다. 스캐닝은 우리가 미래를 알고 시간의 지평을 넓히는 방법입니다. 미래에 영향을 미치는 패턴을 감지할 수 있게 해 줍니다. 스캐닝은 무엇이 변화하는지 감지하고 이해하는 가장 보편적인 미래학 기법 중 하나입니다. 잘 활용하면 스캐닝은 미래 지...

Cool to see one of my favorite articles translated into Korean! The #future of play✨️

#Futurist #Futurology #Futurism #FutureofPlay

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Exclusive: Saudi Arabia to open more alcohol stores as curbs ease, sources say Saudi Arabia plans to open two new alcohol stores, including one serving non-Muslim, foreign staff at state oil giant Aramco , as the kingdom further eases restrictions, according to people briefed on the plans.

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Could surtax strategy lend to new tipping points for implenting Universal Basic Income #UBI? Interesting idea to consider in the context of the evolving #future of #work discourse

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New International Student Enrollment Plummeted This Fall, Survey Finds The overall number of international students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities, including those who enrolled in prior years or who are working after graduation, fell only slightly.

The number of international college students enrolling in their American schools for the first time decreased by 17% this fall, according to data published on Monday.

thehill.com Cities starting to push back against data centers: Study

Cities starting to push back against data centers: Study #TheHill

All Will Rise - Official Kickstarter Trailer | Wholesome Direct 2025 YouTube video by GameTrailers

Our singer @joostvervoort.bsky.social is working on a video game about making corporates pay for destroying the planet, together with some of the best people in the game industry (Horizon games, 80 Days, Doom: the Dark Ages and more). www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SCa... Follow: @allwillrise.bsky.social

www.vice.com Well, They've Gone and Done It. They Made a Home Servant Robot.

Well, They’ve Gone and Done It. They Made a Home Servant Robot.

The AI Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies AI is propped up by a global sweat shop operation, where exploited workers polish the software for wealthy corporations in the west.

“…for an AI chatbot to generate an autopsy report, contract workers have to sift through thousands of gruesome crime scene images, a gig known as ‘data labeling.’”

www.upi.com Researchers sequence a patient's genome in record-breaking time - UPI.com

Researchers sequence a patient's genome in record-breaking time

The Story of Futures Studies: An Interdisciplinary Field Rooted in Social Sciences This article presents the almost century-long history of the development of futures studies in a comprehensive review. Futures studies, rooted in sociology and policy sciences, had become an academic discipline by the 1960s. One of the major global communities representing the discipline, the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF), celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2023. In the 1970s, the focus was placed on discourses on global problems and preferred futures. Futures studies then developed a global institutional community and become a mature discipline by the 1980s and 1990s. Futurists by then had already mutually shared theoretical perspectives, objectives, ethics, and methods, and had produced empirical results. A wide range of comprehensive publications at that time synthesized the foundations and preceding results of futures studies. From the turn of the millennium, active discourse took place on the forthcoming role of futures studies. By that time, the theoretical, methodological, and practical knowledge foundations of the discipline had also appeared in internationally well-documented curricula. Since around 2010, the discipline has been characterized by the development of practical foresight projects. Based on notable trends and identified research gaps, this article formulates up-to-date expectations and research directions within which futures studies might develop in the future.

New to #Foresight and #Futures Studies? I just read a terrific article on the evolution of the field, truly an impressive overview citing some of the best sources. Highly recommend! Brilliant schema describing different forms of Foresight. #Futurist #Future #Futurology
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Adobe predicts AI-assisted online shopping to grow 520% during the 2025 US holiday season | TechCrunch The company expects consumers to largely use AI for research ahead of purchases, based on a survey of 5,000 U.S. consumers — 53% of whom said they may use AI services for this purpose.

Adobe predicts AI-assisted online shopping to grow 520% during the 2025 US holiday season |

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Jane Fonda relaunches free speech group started by her father during the McCarthy era In wake of the Trump administration’s censorship threats, the actor re-established the Committee for the First Amendment with A-list support

Jane Fonda relaunches free speech group started by her father during the McCarthy era www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

www.vice.com The Extraordinary Story of the Teen Who Can Mentally ‘Time Travel’

The Extraordinary Story of the Teen Who Can Mentally ‘Time Travel’

Longevity gains slowing with life expectancy of 100 unlikely, study finds A new study co-authored by a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor finds that life expectancy gains made by high-income countries in the first half of the 20th century have slowed significantly, a...

In the absence of any major breakthroughs that significantly extend human life, life expectancy will not match the rapid increases seen in the early 20th century even if adult survival improved twice as fast as modeling predicts it to. phys.org/news/2025-08...

This Teen's iPhone Called 911 by Itself After Severe Crash, Saves Her Life Obliterating her car against two poles and a tree, the phone knew what had happened and immediately called 911 emergency services.

This Teen's iPhone Called 911 by Itself After Severe Crash, Saves Her Life:

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They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back. Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.

So far, the main businesses that have been financially benefited from AI have been the producers of blue books
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Share your story: Are you a woman who’s left the workforce? Share your experience to help inform our reporting.

After entering the workforce in record numbers post-pandemic, women — especially mothers — are now leaving jobs as flexibility declines. Share your experience to help inform our reporting on this subject.

If you followed our series, “Meet #GenBeta” your vote would mean so much. We want to take the storytelling to #SXSW

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These are the prompts I pulled for our session at #SXSW 2025, Foresight Improv. But before we can fill the cowboy hat with audience suggestions again, we need votes! Your voice counts ❤️ Use the link, cast a vote for Foresight Improv 🙏
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U.S. Helped Beat Back Malaria in Guinea. Now, the Disease Is Set To Soar Guinea—One morning in mid-June, a 10-year-old boy named Mohamed Camara was lying on a bed in a health center in the small Guinean town of Tamita, wearing bright blue shorts and an army-style T-shirt.....

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Malaria is surging in Africa due to climate change just as Trump withdrew all U.S. funding to fight the disease. The funding cuts mean fewer supplies, medications and health workers. Thousands will die, most of them children under 5.

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Invitation to Futurology: A Taxonomy from Scanning to Scenarios I recently gave an interview to Hilton Barbour, who blogs about organizational culture, on the topic of futurology. Specifically, I had the...

My latest blog post on the topic of futurology concerns scanning and scenarios, two of the well-known futurist activities

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#Futurist #Future #Futurology #Foresight #FuturesStudies #Futurism