by senior futurist Richard Worzel, C.F.A. “Any useful idea about the future should appear to be ridiculous” – futurist Jim Dator Eighteen years ago, in 1996, I was writing a book called The Next 20 Years of Your Life (published by Stoddart Publishing in 1997), in which I projected how a variety of the major […] Read more

by futurist Kit Arrow What would a world without antibiotics be like? Unfortunately, we know all too well from history. Here’s what our future could look like without them: Marjorie was working at her favorite pastime, woodworking, planing a piece of wood for a cabinet she was making, when the wood plane slipped, and she […] Read more

by senior futurist Richard Worzel, C.F.A. In 1998, former news anchor Tom Brokaw wrote a book called The Greatest Generation. In that book he said, “‘it is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.’ He argued that these men and women fought not for fame and recognition, but because it was the […] Read more

by senior futurist Richard Worzel, C.F.A. Does a robot have rights? Not now it doesn’t, and it’s tempting to say a robot will never have rights because it is property. However, you could have made a similar argument about certain classes of human beings at various times through history, from women in western society until […] Read more

by futurist Kit Arrow, B.Sc. In my last blog I wrote about longevity and how there were a number of possibilities as to how we could make the body last longer. I touched on the brain, but only briefly, because there was enough on brain longevity for another post. The brain is probably the least […] Read more

by futurist Kit Arrow Jeanne Calment of France was born in 1875, and died in 1997, at the age of 122, the oldest verifiable age for a human being. She was alive for the Boer war, the establishment of the Nobel Prize, the founding of the National Geographic society, both World Wars, the emergence of […] Read more

by futurists Richard Worzel & Kit Arrow This is the third of a three-part blog post on climate change and what it means to us. The first part dealt with the evidence that climate change is really happening – although with the bizarre weather we’ve been experiencing, anyone who still doubts it clearly has problems […] Read more

by futurist Richard Worzel, C.F.A. This is the second of three parts in an overview of the future of climate change. The first part can be found here. In this section, I’m going to focus on three things relating to climate change: A working definition of risk; the nature and magnitude of the risks we […] Read more

by futurist Richard Worzel, C.F.A. This is the first part of a three part discussion about climate change. The second part, which deals with the risk management aspects of climate change, can be found here. One topic that inevitably draws comments from readers of Futuresearch blog posts is any discussion of climate change. A recent comment […] Read more