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Comprehensive Web Bibliography Comprehensive World Wide Web Futurist Bibliography 21st Century Science and Technology http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/ 3-D Animation - The Mind’s Eye and Other Videos http://www.animationtrip.com/store/productlist.php?category=thematic Accelerating Change http://accelerating.org/ac2004/ Acceleration Studies Foundation – Videos/Slide Shows http://accelerating.org/slides.html Affluenza http://www.pbs.org/kcts/affluenza/ AI, Cognitive Science, and Robotics Resources on the Web http://transit-port.net/AI.CogSci.Robotics/ The American Paradox – David Meyers http://www.davidmyers.org/paradox/ Anne Arundel Community College – Institute for the Future - Sociology - Course: Focus on the Future http://www.aacc.edu/future/ Anticipating the Future – Future Studies Course – University of Arizona http://ag.arizona.edu/futures/ http://ag.arizona.edu/futures/fut/futmain.html http://ag.arizona.edu/futures/fut/thinkers.html The APA - The American Psychological Association and APA Monitor http://www.apa.org/ http://www.apa.org/monitor The Archdruid Report http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/search?q= Arcosanti Home Page - Paolo Soleri http://www.arcosanti.org/ The Arlington Institute – Future Edition Newsletter http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/ The Artemis Project – Moon Settlement http://www.asi.org/ Artificial Intelligence Resources and Directories – Neuron http://www.neuron.co.uk/ http://archive.comlab.ox.ac.uk/comp/ai.html Artificial Life Websites and Resources http://www.alife.org/ http://alife.fusebox.com/ http://www.alcyone.com/max/links/alife.html Asimov’s Science Fiction http://www.asimovs.com/ Isaac Asimov http://www.asimovonline.com/ http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/Asimov/Asimov.html Association of Professional Futurists http://www.profuturists.org/ The Astrobiology Web http://www.astrobiology.com/ An Atlas of Cyberspaces http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html Awakening Earth – Duane Elgin http://www.awakeningearth.org/ J. G. Ballard Links http://www.jgballard.com/index.php Stephen Baxter http://www.stephen-baxter.com/ Be The Dream www.bethedream.com Greg Bear http://www.gregbear.com/ Becoming Human – Paleoanthropology, Evolution, and Human Origins http://www.becominghuman.org/ Beliefnet – The Source for Spirituality, Religion, and Morality http://www.beliefnet.com/ Best Philosophy Resources http://answers.encyclopedia.com/question/best-philosophy- resources-222838.html Best Practices Database http://www.bestpractices.org The Biologos Forum http://biologos.org/ Biota.org – The Digital Biology Project http://www.biota.org/ Biotechnology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotechnology Biotechnology http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/BC/what_is_biotechnology.php Biotechnology and Ethics http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/IE/ Blessed Unrest http://www.blessedunrest.com/ Howard Bloom – Adventures for the Mind – Big Bang Tango Media Lab http://www.howardbloom.net/ http://www.bigbangtango.net/ Border Crossings: Cyborgs http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/bordercrossings/cyborgs.html Nick Bostrom’s Home Page – Philosopher – Futurist http://www.nickbostrom.com/ Brain and the Future http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/report-76491.html Brainstorms - Howard Rheingold http://www.rheingold.com/ http://www.well.com/user/hlr/vircom/index.html http://www.well.com/user/hlr/tomorrow/index.html David Brin http://davidbrin.com/ http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/ British Science Fiction Association http://www.bsfa.co.uk/ Rodney Brooks http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/ http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/brooks.html Gil Bruvel - Contemporary Art http://www.bruvel.com/ The Bryce Gallery http://www.metasynth.com/BRYCEART/PAGES/galleryBryce.html Buddhist Studies - World Wide Web Virtual Library http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Buddhism.html Lois McMaster Bujold – Science Fiction http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/bujold.html California Institute of Integral Studies http://www.ciis.edu/ Fritjof Capra Websites http://www.fritjofcapra.net/ http://www.intuition.org/txt/capra.htm Rachel Carson’s Environmental Ethics http://www.eoearth.org/article/Rachel_Carson's_environmental_ethics Center for Action and Contemplation – Compassionate Consumption http://www.cacradicalgrace.org/resources/consumption.html Center for Anxiety and Stress Treatment http://stressrelease.com/ Center for Millennial Studies http://www.mille.org/ http://www.mille.org/scholarship/index.html Center for Theology and Science http://www.ctns.org/ http://www.ctns.org/pub_articles.html The Center for Visionary Leadership http://www.visionarylead.org David Chalmers (Philosophy) Home Page http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/ Debashis Chowdhury – Philosophy, Spirituality http://intrinz.com/iooi/ Christ in the Desert http://www.christdesert.org/pax.html Christian Futures Network http://www.christianfutures.com/ The Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.com/ Civnet http://www.civnet.org/ Cities of the Future http://www.transfuture.net/ Arthur C. Clarke Websites http://www.clarkefoundation.org/ http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/aclarke.htm Climate Change http://ec.europa.eu/environment/climat/home_en.htm Club of Amsterdam – Shaping Your Future in the Knowledge Society http://www.clubofamsterdam.com/default.asp Club of Rome http://www.clubofrome.org/ CNN In-Depth Specials - The Next Millennium: Now What? http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/future/index.html CNN - Science and Technology http://www.cnn.com/TECH/index.html Joseph Coates - Consulting Futurist, Inc. http://www.josephcoates.com/ The Communitarian Network http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps/ Communities of the Future http://www.communitiesofthefuture.org/ Consciousness Studies Home Page – University of Arizona http://consciousness.arizona.edu/ Conservation Biology: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/conservation-biology/ Conservation International http://www.conservation.org/Pages/default.aspx Conservation Magazine http://www.conservationmagazine.org/ Constructal Theory http://www.constructal.org/ Contact – Cultures of the Imagination http://www.contact-conference.org/ Conversations with God Foundation – Neal Walsch http://www.cwg.org/ Stephanie Coontz - Love, Family, Marriage http://www.stephaniecoontz.com/ Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies http://www.cifs.dk/en/omcifs.asp Counterbalance- Science, Religion, & Philosophy http://www.counterbalance.org/ Creating Learning Communities http://www.creatinglearningcommunities.org/ Creation Science http://emporium.turnpike.net/C/cs/index.htm Creative Class – Richard Florida Creativity Group http://creativeclass.com/ Creativity - Enchanted Mind http://enchantedmind.com/ Creativity Café http://www.creativity.net/ Cross Currents http://www.crosscurrents.org/ Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi http://www.brainchannels.com/thinker/mihaly.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi Cultural Creatives http://www.culturalcreatives.org/home.html http://www.ecolivingcenter.com/ring/ccr.html http://www.lightparty.com/Spirituality/Culture.html The CyberAnthropology Page http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/cyberanthropos.html Cybergrrl http://www.cybergrrl.com/ Cybertown http://www.cybertown.com/ The Darwin Project http://www.thedarwinproject.com/temp.html DaVinci Institute – Futurist Think Tank http://www.davinciinstitute.com/ Defining Wisdom http://wisdomresearch.org/ David Delamare - Contemporary Art http://www.daviddelamare.com/index.html The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension http://deoxy.org/deoxy.htm Philip K. Dick Websites http://www.philipkdick.com/ The Official Blade Runner On Line Magazine http://www.devo.com/bladerunner/ Philip K. Dick Biography http://www.webcom.com/~gnosis/pkd.biography.html Discover Magazine http://discovermagazine.com/ Disinformation http://www.disinfo.com/ Dissent Magazine http://www.dissentmagazine.org/ Micheal G. Dolence and Associates – Future of Education http://www.mgdolence.com/ Peter Drucker – The Business World According to Peter Drucker http://www.peter-drucker.com/ Peter Drucker Foundation – Leader to Leader Institute http://www.pfdf.org/ Dynamical Psychology http://goertzel.org/dynapsyc/ Dynamist.Com – Virginia Postrel – The Future and its Enemies http://www.dynamist.com/ The Earth Charter Initiative http://www.earthcharterinaction.org/content/ http://www.earthcharterinaction.org/content/pages/Read-the-Charter.html Earth Pages http://epages.wordpress.com/ Earth Policy Institute - Lester Brown: Environmental Issues (Population, Climate, Food, Energy, Species Diversity) http://www.earth-policy.org/ http://www.earthpolicy.org/Books/PlanB_contents.htm http://www.earthpolicy.org/Books/PB3/index.htm http://www.earthpolicy.org/Books/PB3/ PlanB3.0_SlidesPDF_EarthPolicyInstitute.pdf Earth Portals – New Age http://www.earthportals.com/ Earth Trends: The Environmental Information Portal – World Resources Institute http://earthtrends.wri.org/ Earthdance – Elizabet Sahtouris http://www.ratical.org/LifeWeb/Erthdnce/erthdnce.html Gregg Easterbrook http://www.greggeasterbrook.com/ Ecology – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ecology/ Ecology and Society (Journal – Online Articles) http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/ Eco-Philosophy Center http://www.ecophilosophy.org/new/home.html Ecopsychology On-Line http://ecopsychology.athabascau.ca/ Ecotopia http://www.ecotopia.org/ Edge Magazine – The Third Culture http://www.edge.org/ http://www.edge.org/documents/ThirdCulture/d-Contents.html The Edge of Science http://www.transaction.net/science/index.html Education http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education
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