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Eamonn Kelly, GBN's CEO, gave a keynote address on "Five Centuries of the Future," to the Human Resources Planning Society's conference, "Succeeding in a World Without Boundaries: A Whole New Mindset." His book, Powerful Times, will be published in South Korea this summer.

In "Making the Sun Come Out Tomorrow," an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times (June 11), Chairman Peter Schwartz suggests that today's pessimism can be overcome if we renew our faith in the future.

Watch Peter debate Harvard historian Niall Ferguson (Author, The War of the World and Empire) on the trajectory of human progress at the Long Now Foundation's April Seminar on Long Term Thinking.

Read Peter's recent presentation to the British Cabinet's Strategic Planning Office on "Anticipating Strategic Surprises.

Peter's first book, The Art of the Long View (1991), was voted the #1 futures book (current and classic) by the Association of Professional Futurists.

GBN practitioner Erik Smith spoke on "Building a long term energy strategy" at the Sustainable Manufacturing Summit, April 9 in Chicago. Together with GBN's client from the EPA's Energy Star program, Erik presented results from the recent scenario project, "Energy Strategy for the Road Ahead."

The Colbert Report lampoons GBN's scenarios on the Future of Arctic Navigation.

Peter Schwartz and Mick Costigan (GBN-Monitor's new Future Scholar) published an article on the important role that big ideas will continue to play in India's future growth and development. It appears in Businessworld, an Indian business publication, as part of the "2008--The Year Ahead" issue.

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GBN : Bulletin

A Quarterly Broadcast from GBN

To learn about the latest GBN projects and perspectives, read the newest issue of the GBN Bulletin.

Scenario Thinking

Small Businesses and the Future of U.S. Healthcare in 2015

A COSE/GBN Special Report

What might the future of U.S. healthcare look like from the perspective of small businesses?

Science and Technology | Scenario Thinking | Economics

Dare to Dream: Visions for Tomorrow

Visionary perspectives on the future, culminating in an optimistic scenario. Commissioned by the SCI FI Channel, with a foreward by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Science and Technology | Scenario Thinking

The Future of Arctic Marine Navigation in Mid-Century

A scenario project with the Arctic Council’s Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment

Four scenarios contemplating the wide-ranging effects that continued climate change could have on Arctic waterways in the future.

Environment and Sustainability | Scenario Thinking

GBN Podcasts

Listen to live recordings of GBN in Conversation, a speakers series in which leading thinkers, visionaries, and experts from the GBN Network and beyond offer their unique insights and perspectives on global issues and uncertainties.

Forces of the Future

A Flash animation

Narrated by GBN CEO Eamonn Kelly, "Forces of the Future" is a Flash animation exploring 10 trends that are creating, even transforming, our future.

The Future of Clean Technology

A Conversation with Peter Schwartz

In this interview with Ernst & Young, Peter Schwartz opines on the short-term future of clean tech from business, investment, and technology perspectives.

Science and Technology | Scenario Thinking

Developing and Using Scenarios
April 21-25: Berkeley, CA
June 16-20: Tarrytown, NY
October 27-31: Berkeley, CA
California and New York

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Welcome to new Network member Mimi Ito, a cultural anthropologist who studies new media use, particularly among young people in Japan and the U.S. Currently, Mimi splits her time between Keio University and the University of Southern California and is conducting a multi-year research project on digital kids and informed learning. She recently edited a book for MIT Press with Daisuke Okabe and Misa Matsuda entitled Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. Mimi received doctorates in both anthropology and education from Stanford.

May, 2006 Newsletter edited by Stewart Brand

Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World
Robert Neuwirth

The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and The Fate of Humanity
James Lovelock