Sentence examples for study of the future from inspiring English sources

A fewdecades later the study of the future came to be as solemn as the study of the past.

In June, another group of scientists, led by Columbia University's Elisaveta Petkova, published a study of the future of urban heat in New York.

He and Mayor Michael Bloomberg had commissioned the consulting firm McKinsey to conduct a study of the future of the financial industry in New York.

That sentence appeared in a study of the future published late last year by the U.S. National Intelligence Council.

A study of the future of the Book is now being made for industry by the Hopf Institute of Management, a research organization, in combination with the Psychological Corporation Market Research Specialists.

They included a book on the French Popular Front; a study of the future of genetics; two novels - André Malraux's Days Of Contempt, about a political prisoner in Nazi Germany, and Hillel Bernstein's Choose A Bright Morning, a satire on the "follies of fascism" - and Wilfred Macartney's Walls Have Mouths, a "sensationalist" account of life inside Parkhurst prison.

And only a few weeks ago the French government concluded a nine-month study on the future of metropolitan Paris.

Shirky says he and others are working on a study on the future of news from journalists' perspective.

This research framework therefore sets out to investigate the changes in welfare models needed to face changing future environments by combining knowledge and tools from studies of the future and welfare state research.

"We look at things such as trends or weak signals and look for indicators of all the possible and plausible futures that could be out there," says Terry Grim, a professor in the Studies of the Future program at the University of Houston.

More persuasive is a thoughtful new study of the energy future by the Pew Centre on Global Climate Change.