Projects

Eschaton Management Planning Group
An ongoing project attempting to identify technologies that would be necessary in order to restart civilization after an end-of-the-world event, explain how to recreate these technologies, and widely distribute this information.
http://eschatonmanagement.blogspot.com

Foresight as a Tool for the Management of Knowledge Flows and Innovation (FORMAKIN)
Three-country (UK, Spain, Netherlands) project investigating uses of foresight in national-level policy for enhancing technological innovation with a particular focus on medical technology; research reports.
http://www.iesam.csic.es/proyecto/formakie.htm

Freedom Ship - City At Sea
A project to build a floating city which will continually circle the globe.
http://www.freedomship.com/

HumansBeingHuman
A proposed look at the science of humanity to protect the future of the species.
http://www.humansbeinghuman.org

Narrows Crossing
A community developing in Puget Sound following progressive ideals.
http://www.narrowscrossing.com

The Venus Project
Plan to redesign global society using high technology directed by an ethic of sustainability: essays, model project in Florida, photo-realistic graphics of proposed future cities and technologies; books for sale on site.
http://www.thevenusproject.com/

Vision 2020
Project to use self replicating robotics launched onto the moon to harness solar energy.
http://www.fishnet.co.nz/v2020/index.html

ZDK (Shaddox) Foundation
Judeo-Christian and Norse-influenced organization which organizes and ministers to a future religious-based interstellar realm.
http://business.gorge.net/zdkf/zdkhp.html

Time Capsule
Reader postings from a New York Times project to collect predictions of the new millennium; includes images and sounds (requires free registration). <small>(February 20, 2003)</small>
http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/millennium/timecapsule/