Andrea Westermann analyzes an early case of global mineral resource appraisal: In 1877, Eduard Suess, a professor of geology from Vienna published The Future of Gold (Die Zukunft des Goldes).
Late last year Intel published, The Future of Knowledge Work, a whitepaper resulting from extensive internal and external research and a Future of the Workplace Summit held in Haifa, Israel.
It is in this climate that we are publishing The Future of Incarceration, a series of articles and short videos dedicated to exploring a better way forward for the criminal justice system.
That year Gore also published The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, which analyzed the impact of various sociopolitical, technological, and environmental forces on humanity's prospects.
But a report published today – The Future of Personalisation for those with Complex Needs – calls for a rethink of this approach.
"Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise," the composer John Cage said in a 1937 lecture later published as "The Future of Music: Credo".
The next step, Thomsen said, will be to perpetuate the conversation by publishing "Thinking the Future of Auschwitz" as a book, including essays by outside experts.
"In education, it seems like there's a fad a month," said Ron Haskins, co-director of the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution, which co-publishes The Future of Learning with Princeton University.
But even then, most scientists publishing research on the future of the climate thought it was going to get warmer.
Now Lessig has published a book, "The Future of Ideas," which serves as a bleak summa of his thoughts on intellectual property.
