An essay is a short work that treats a topic from an author's personal point of view, often taking into account subjective experiences and personal reflections upon them. Essays are usually brief works in prose, but works in verse are sometimes dubbed essays (e.g. Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism (1711) and An Essay on Man (1733-1734)). Many voluminous and famous works refer to themselves as essays (e.g. John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), Thomas Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)).
Virtually anything may be the subject of an essay. Topics may include actual happenings, issues of human life, morality, ethics, religion and many others. An essay is, by definition, a work of non-fiction, and is often expository.
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100 Phenomena - Complete English text from the Finnish book 100 Phenomena by Risto Linturi and Ilkka Hannula containing miniature scenarios for the years 2000 to 2020 illustrating what may happen in our future and how it will feel.
A Message From Future Generations - People of the future give advice on spiritual and political development. Excerpts from Dr. Allen Tough's book of the same title.
Australia's Future - A prediction about the nature of the impending Republic of Australia.
Meta Description: [ A prediction of the future of Australia, and the nature of the forthcoming multicultural republic. ]
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Be Afraid - Provides forecasts of scientific and social developments; tracks cutting edge technology like nanotechnology and genetics; offers insight into changes in near future lifestyles.
Carfree City Design - Exploring the prospect of designing auto-less, sustainable communities with alternative transportation, renewable energy, pedestrian orientation, mixed-use zoning, fiber optics and recycling facilities in all units and other green features to aid in long-term quality of life survival.
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Consolidation for Social Awareness and Responsiblity - Compendium of research papers, scientific studies and learned opinions regarding issues that will have profound affect upon our children.
Digital Fracture - Articles related to decision makers lag and its economic and cultural consequnces.
Dr. Arthur B. Shostak - Professor of Sociology, and futurist. Includes his essays and book reviews.
Future Studies - Essays on change, the future of humanity, and transhumanism, by Nick Bostrom; archival site, no longer updated.
Meta Description: [ A new way of thinking about the future ]
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Future Studies: An Interdisciplinary Vehicle for Space Science Education - Essay on futures studies' use in the space science curriculum which includes example methods, suggested reading, and three futures course descriptions.
Future's Edge - Topics include world population, stem cell research, limits of science, climate change, and anthrax. Includes links to other resources.
Futurlogics a system of prospective thinking - Research method and a predictive model for dealing with the unknown.
Innovation Watch - Follows developments in science, technology, business, society and the environment and assesses their impact.
Meta Description: [ Have a personal or professional interest in change? We have a growing collection of resources. Innovation Watch follows trends in science, technology, business, society, global politics and the environment, and speculates about where they may be taking us. ]
Manifesto for the Peoples of the Third Millennium - An outline of processes for developing progressive alternative societies.
Meta Description: [ Outline of processes for developing progressive alternative societies. ]
News for a Synergic Earth - A collection of discussions and articles focused on culture, systems thinking and how to create a more sustainable future.
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Philosophy of Technology - Several essays centered on how the world will cope with humanity's natural drive towards cultural and physical speciation.
Reflections Of A Changing Era - Reflections Of A Changing Era, The American Dream, by Jim Bickford.
Meta Description: [ A patriotic tribute to the greatest land of opportunity, America, by Jim Bickford ]
ROBOT: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind, by Hans Moravec - Additional figures and text for Moravec's book on the next six decades.
Saving the Future - Suggests key changes that lead to an acceptable future. Offers articles and forum.
Meta Description: [ A site designed to help interested persons consider the most general requirements for an acceptable world future. ]
Scenarios: The Red Herring Column - Contains several papers about various topics. Including Yucca Mountain, the uture of the economy, and broad band.
Meta Description: [ A series of columns by GBN cofounder and chairman Peter Schwartz published by Red Herring magazine. ]
Social Fiction - S. Flor - Report from the year 2029: local markets have become an important complement to the established global economic system.
Meta Description: [ Vision of a dual economy with local markets. Eine dualwirtschaftliche Vision mit Lokalmärkten ]
The Collegiate Landscape of the Future - The universities of the future won't be built around the Internet; they will be built around small residential colleges.
Meta Description: [ What the landscape of higher education will look like when universities are rebuilt with decentralized, faculty-led residential colleges. ]
The Sky is the Linit - A personal discussion of the most relevant and actual of the world's problems.
Why the Future Doesn't Need Us - Article on how technologies, including robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech, are threatening to make humans an endangered species.
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