It is hard to picture a total social and environmental breakdown and it’s easy and comfortable to dismiss these kinds of predictions. But on the 13 of June 2007 it was ‘made official’: the Crash of the U.S. Economy had begun. In a column titled “The Takeover Boom, About to Go Bust” in The Washington […]
Entries Tagged as 'Futurists & Thinkers'
Boom and Bust, Visionaries and Business
April 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Capitalism · Futurists & Thinkers · Documentary: Future for Sale · Resource-based Economy
Once I met a futurist…
March 31st, 2008 · No Comments
Once I met a futurist.
When I was a child I had one wish above all. It was always on top of any wish list, attached to every wish-bone or shooting star: peace on earth between humans, animals and nature. It left me with a burning mission; to make it happen. I collected all my pocket […]
Tags: Capitalism · The Journey · Futurists & Thinkers · Documentary: Future for Sale
A Global Matter
March 20th, 2008 · No Comments
We need to think globally about global matters, and both the economic and environmental crises are global concerns at this point.
Who are we to say an economic transformation will never happen in our lifetime? Many things now commonplace were just as inconceivable 50 or 100 years ago. What ordinary person then could have conceived of […]
Tags: The Journey · Utopia? · Futurists & Thinkers · Documentary: Future for Sale · Resource-based Economy · Non-competitive Economy