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InnerViews #6/pdf: Intuition and Spirituality in Business: An Expert Intuitive Looks at Future Trends (Penney Peirce, Research Reading 5/94)

InnerViews #7/pdf: The New Children and The Future of Education: An Expert Intuitive Looks at Trends (Penney Peirce, Joyful Child Journal 1993)

InnerViews #11/pdf: Becoming Transparent: Preparing to Live in the Permanent Present Moment (Penney Peirce, 7/03)

Commentary on Coming Changes in the Earth/pdf (Penney Peirce)

The Current Mayan Creation Cycle Culminating in 2012/pdf (Brian Myers, Mayan Astrologer, 105)

2005 Message from the Hopi Elders/pdf

Links

Early Signs and Predictions Concerning September 11th

What's Up on Planet Earth? • Energy Alerts

John Petersen • The Arlington Institute • World's Biggest Problems portal

Philip Brown • AstroFutureTrends • http://astrofuturetrends.blogspot.com

Ken Bowser • www.westernsiderealastrology.com/events/events.asp

Jeremy Rifkin • Foundation for Economic Trends • Global Column

Trendhunter Magazine

Social Technologies Newsletter

Some Trends Delineated
The following trends are from Dr. James Canton/Institute for Global Futures

Fueling the Future - The energy crisis, the costs, the post-oil future, and the future of energy alternatives like hydrogen, hybrids, and biofuels will be an essential factor into every business decision. The critical role that energy will play in every aspect of our lives in the 21st century will shape business and society. Global demand for energy in the near future will outpace supply within twenty-five years unless new sources are found to support global growth. Energy terrorism and theft will become a future weapon of choice, threatening global peace and security. New sources of renewable abundant and cost-effective energy must be fast developed within 20-30 years to manage the population's expectations of enhanced quality of life worldwide. Carbon based pollution, from fossil fuels, will be linked to a growing number of future public health risks. Energy security will be one of the chief concerns in the 21st century leading to global competition, conflict and the collaboration of nations and corporations.
The Innovation Economy - The central driver of future commerce will be innovation industries. Investing today in fast moving patents, innovations, ideas, like the Four Power Tools of the future: nano-bio-neuro-info, and products will shape competitive advantage.
Talent War - Talented people are the key to business success. There will be more jobs than skilled people to fill them. Companies will compete for the growing shortage of skilled people. More incentives to keep and recruit the best people will emerge.
Longevity Medicine - Health care is being transformed by biotech and genomics. People will be living longer, healthier and more productive lives. The human enhancement marketplace, offering new organs, new memories, new limbs, new skin and new lives, will translate into the largest market of the future—even immortality, for some, will be possible. Preventive medicine that predicts disease before it occurs. Personalized health care designed for our specific human and health enhancement needs will transform health care. DNA, engineered for personalized medicine, will be used to create organs on-demand for a world wide market of individuals looking for new options in life and performance extension.
Weird Science - Always-On wireless Internet, teleportation, smart materials, space tourism—Weird new science will change every aspect of our lives, culture and economy, leading to new jobs, new products and new options. Nations and businesses that invest in future science will profit in economic growth. The next generation internet will merge telephony and video into a vibrant, interactive, sensory experience that will shape industries such as entertainment, retail, health care and education.
Securing the Future - A new risk landscape is emerging from war, to hackers, to terrorists, to mind control, which will pose new challenges for individuals, governments and business. The convergence of computers, networks, and wireless technologies will create both opportunities and threats. The personal security market will be lucrative.
The Future of Globalization - The new realities of more open global trade will offer both risk and opportunity in the near future. The rise of China and India; the clash of different cultures and ideas. Free trade, open markets and improved quality of life will define the 21st century. In the future of work, distance is dead and only the agile and smart who know how to collaborate will be the winners. Rich, interactive, multi-sensory Net worlds that help workers collaborate 24/7 is next.
The Future of Climate Change - The environment is changing and we need to prepare for increased global warming, pollution, and threats to biodiversity that will present new business opportunities. At the same time, the Clean Tech market will offer business a large financial opportunity to clean up the planet. Climate change will become a strategically important global trend to consumers, business and nations as threats to health, life, property and security grow more profound in the 21st century. Global warming from carbon energy sources such as coal, gas and oil dominance as well as natural causes, will lead to increased threats of extreme weather changes such as glacial melting, shoreline flooding, widespread drought and drastic climate shifts. Food production supplies will not keep pace with growing population demand especially in Asia, Africa and Latin America without new solutions to production and distribution. Security and defense implications of climate change will emerge as one of the leading social and political issues of the 21st century. Ecological disasters, on a scale not seen before, are likely as climate change becomes a global public policy issue.
The Future of the Individual - The near future will provide opportunities for personal wealth creation that will underlie all other trends. Individual invention and innovation will accelerate business success. We will also see a struggle to balance individual freedom, privacy and security. The Personal Portal, a digital intelligence that lives in cars, homes, our office, our clothes, embedded inside of us for some, will redefine the notion of computing by moving from device to device, location to location, while serving our needs.

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