Futures Research Center

Research Tracks
These are exciting times to be sure! There are endless possibilities and many probabilities for our future. If you believe that the choices you make today will determine the quality of life for future generations, you can imagine and build a probably successful future.

NOTE: The information available for public access via these tracks is incomplete and in summary form. These public pages are intended for the general reader and lack detailed information and analysis.

§ Environment
§ Medical / Health
§ Politics / Society
§ Science
§ Technology

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Site	Description
Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition	The RAND Pardee Center pursues ambitious objectives: to improve our ability to think about the longer-range future--from 35 to as far as 200 years ahead--and to develop new methods of analyzing potential long-range, global effects of today's policy options in order to design sound policies that are sensitive to those effects.
International Centre for Technology Assessment	This private, non-profit, non-partisan group is committed to providing the public with full assessments and analyses of technological impacts on society.
World meters	World Game Institute's up-to-the minute statistics
Environmental News Network	Latest information on environmental issues
American Civil Liberties Union	America's foremost advocate of individual rights
Amnesty International	An activist organization dedicated to freeing prisoners of conscience
Ecological Society of America	Current issues in ecological studies
National Science Foundation	A basic site for science information
Institute of Medicine	Information on current medical research
About.Com (AI)	Artificial intelligence (AI) issues covered at About.Com.
Alvin Toffler, PhD.	Futurist author of Future Shock
Center for Responsive Politics	Research group tracks money in politics
Eurekalert	News of advances in science and technology
Full-Sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer (FAME)	Mapping outer-space
Futures Community Center	Planet-Tech Associates
Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies	Graduate program in futures research
Proceedings of Third World Futures Conference	Sponsored by the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies
Northern Arizona University: Futures Forum	Graduate program in futures research
PEW Research Center	Independent opinion research group studies public attitudes toward press, politics, and public policy issues.
Potentials Media	Learn about futurists and their visions.
Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon	Hans Moravec
Science Daily	Science news reports
World Future Society	International organization monitoring research and developments in field of futurology