Future Ideas

Nelson's Column

The looming impotence of central banks

Does Australia Need a Population Target or a Vision for the Future?

The End of the Beginning of the War Against Increasing Greenhouse Gasses

It's Not Just the Economy, Stupid!

Future Forest

Generation and Age both Important in Forecasting Consumer Attitudes

The Dog with a Selective Bark

The Australian Government's 3 G-spots Deliver no Pleasure

The Future of Democracy

How to Survive the Future

Sceptic's Corner

The Flaws in John Howard's Case for War against Iraq, and The Axis of Double Standard

The potential perils of opinion polls

A desk is a dangerous place

Treat Confidence Indexes with Caution

Flawed Forecasts for Aussie Dollar

The Man who Knows too Much?

The Most Expensive New Product Failure in History

Take Technology Forecasts with a Grain of Salt and a Dose of Reality

Persistently Pessimistic Predictions of the US Economy

Books

Agequake by Paul Wallace

The Alchemy of Growth by Mehrdad Baghai, Stephen Coley, and David White

Sites

World Future Society

The GW Forecast (technology forecasts)

Plausible Futures

Australian Foresight Institute (good links to foresight/futures sites)

Richard Neville, Australian futurist