Some ambitious projects in sensor research offer a glimpse of where this fledgling field may be headed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/business/31unboxed.html?th&emc=th

Personal Technology from the Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal Digital Network (http://wsjdn.wsj.com/)
January 20, 2010
by Walter S. Mossberg

What if you could collect, in one well-organized, searchable, private digital repository, all the notes you create, clips from Web pages and emails you want to recall, dictated audio memos, photos, key documents, and more? And what if that repository was constantly synchronized, so it was acce… Continue

Posted below are 10 minutes from Carl Settles' great presentation at our last meeting on Jan 19, 2009. The focus of the selected clips is on the essence of Settles' ground-breaking work with youth of color, and how futurists could help.

In August 2009 Slate Magazine conducted a weeklong thought experiment on the United States' demise. Josh Levin was listed as the author. The study was composed of several articles during the week, a survey of readers, and some analysis of the survey data. The… Continue

The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute film that takes viewers on a provocative and eye-opening tour of the real costs of our consumer driven culture—from resource extraction to iPod incineration.

Annie Leonard, an activist who has spent the past 10 years traveling the globe fighting environmental threats, narrates the Story of Stuff, delivering a rapid-fire, often humorous and always engaging story about “all our stuff—where it comes from and where it goes when we throw it away.”

Leonard examines… Continue