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Strategies and technologies for a sustainable future : Essays published in conjunction with the World Future Society's annual meeting, WorldFuture 2010: Sustainable futures, strategies, and technologies by Cynthia G. Wagner, Ed is a book available to read on EtoBox.
xxix, 450 pages : 23 cm "Three dozen of the world's leading practical visionaries offer sweeping perspectives and big-picture thinking in this volume of 25 essays prepared for WorldFuture 2010. Topics explored include new ways to collect intelligence to solve global problems ... strategies for improving creativity among futurists ... ways that technology can improve both our health and our health-care systems ... how conscious machines may one day inspire us with ideas of their own ... a profile of what qualities an anticipatory leader should have ... and much more."--Provided by publisher Includes bibliographical references 2020 visionaries -- Janna Quitney Anderson : remaking education for a new century -- Dennis M. Bushnell : conquering climate change -- Tools and strategies -- Collective intelligence : one of the next big things -- Using scenarios to inform future decisions -- Statisticians : new champions of the future -- How to achieve financial sustainability : a guide for the future of local governments -- Creativity 201 for futurists : how to further integrate creative practices to sustain the human spirit in your work and why it's a good thing to do -- The family of the f
- Author
- Cynthia G. Wagner, Ed
- Publisher
- Bethesda, MD: World Future Society
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780930242671