HISTORY OF THE FUTURE

Assalaamua'alaikum Warahmatullaahi Wabarakaatuh



Dear Readers,



I am sure you are bored with lengthy articles that I have entered in my blog. Besides narrating my experiences and thoughts on the subjects that I wrote, I have often entered articles from other sources which I thought might be of interest to readers. Some issues that crop up from time to time appears deceptively new and so I have entered old speeches and writings on those subjects for readers to ponder as those issues have been discussed, and sometimes solved in the past.



Hopefully, we do not waste too much time, trying to rediscover pythagorous theorem, in trying to find ways of solving problems which could be solved as it was done before.

In the recent past we had been focusing our attention on the following subjects:



1. Whether the ashes of the cremated communist terrorist Chin Peng should be buried in Malaysia.

2. Whether the Maoist Aishah should come back to Malaysia.

3. Whether the Christians should be allowed to use the word 'Allah'.

4. Whether Mat Sabu is a Syiah or a Sunni Muslim.

5. Whether demonstrations are meant to overthrow the BN or PR governments or just to protest against rising costs of living. 

Chin Peng is dead and Aisyah is said to have refused to come home. The issues are therefore settled without anybody being able to claim credit for them.

There are many more.

These issues could be solved by simple gutsy decisions and statements by just one of our leaders. While we have been lingering over such issues, and spend a lot of time on them, others are focusing on how their's and their nation's future would be.

Let us hope that some of us are spending more time on the future than focusing on short-lived sensational issues, due to our indecision, which served as 'red-herrings' to deflect our attention, intentionally or not, from other more serious, lasting and far reaching issues.

 

This particular entry is entitled the 'History of the Future'. In it readers will glance through the topics which have been discussed on the subjects by the various authors. Their curriculum vitae and their writings can be accessed through the web.

 

Almost all the topics are discussed by Western thinkers. This is an active blog entry, as the entry on 'Words of Wisdom', which are corrected and updated as and when possible or necessary. Readers are encouraged to suggest more topics, or more thinkers, other than from the West, on the same topic, in order that this entry will cover as many major subjects as possible.

The following topics, when seriously discussed and followed by effective and efficient implementation can help our nation progress and prosper.

 

Thank you.

 

These are the topics:

BIRTH RATES, MARRIAGE AND FAMILY PLANNING

Will global birth rates in some countries recover as mysteriously as they declined? - Jacques Attali

How can population growth and resources be brought into balance? - Jerome C. Glenn

The Evolution and Future Direction of Marriage. - Tom Lombardo and Jeanne Belisle Lombardo

CIVILISATION

The Quadrate - A Paradigm for Conflicting Civilizations and Global Futures. - Jitendra G. Borpujari (WFS)


CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT

Will the climate one day be so degraded that life on earth becomes impossible? - Jacques Attali

Supertrend Five: Environmental Decline - Edward Cornish

The Future is All Around Us. - Clifton Anderson (WFS)

Sailing and Surfing through Complexity - Emerging Contexts of Energy, Environmental and Society Transitions. - David J. LePoire (WFS)

COLONIALISM

The complete domination of North America by the United States of America - George Friedman

COLOUR - see ETHNICITY, RACE AND COLOUR

COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION

How can the global convergence of information and communication technologies work for everyone? Jerome C. Glenn

The Telecommunications Explosion: Toward a Global Brain - Jose Luis Cordeiro (WFS)

CONSULTANTS

Seeing Newly, Differently, And Futuristically with Scenarios. - Irving H. Buchen (WFS)

Backcasting from the Future - Predict the Future by Creating It. - Don Mizaur (WFS)

The Failure of Strategic Planning and Corporate Performance. - Romulo Werran Gayoso (WFS)

Visionary Concept - Combining Scenario Methodology with Concept Development. - Sami Leppimaki, Jukka Laitinen, Tarja Maristo and Hanna Tuohimaa (WFS)

Globalization 3.0 - A New Urgency for Building Creative and Innovative Communities. - John M. Eger (WFS)

CRIME

The globalization of crime. - Stephen Aguilar-Millan, Joan E. Foltz, John Jackson and Amy Oberg (WFS)

How can transnational organized crime networks be stopped from becoming more powerful and sophisticated global enterprises? - Jerome C. Glenn

CULTURE - see RELIGION AND CULTURE

DEMOCRACY

Will Arab countries one day experience a democratic movement like that of Eastern Europe? - Jacques Attali

Will toppling an elected government lead to the installation of authoritarian police regimes? - Jacques Attali

Will new technologies make new forms of dictatorship possible? - Jacques Attali

How can genuine democracy emerge from authoritarian regimes? Jerome C. Glenn

Why Replace the UN with a Directly Elected Parliament? Brian Coughlan (WFS)


ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND TRADE

What Money Can't Buy - The Moral Limits of Markets - Michael Sandel

The End of the Free Market - Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations - Ian Bremer

Will the American credit crisis plummet the world into another great depression? - Jacques Attair

Supertrend Two: Economic growth - Edward Cornish

Complete domination of the World's Oceans to further secure U.S. Physical safety and guarantee control over the international Trading System - George Friedman

How can sustainable development be achieved for all? - Jerome C. Glenn

How can ethical market economies be encouraged to help reduce the gap between rich and poor? Jerome C. Glen

Why Nations Fail - The Origins Of Power, Prosperity And Poverty - Daton Acemoglu & James A. Robinson

Forecasting the Next Industrial Revolution - A Structural Perspective from Evolutionary Economics. - Denis L. Balaguer (WFS)

Faster, Larger, Riskier - Investing in the Future Global Stock Exchange - Joan E. Foltz (WFS)

Viewing Economics Through the Prism of Sustainable Development and Self-Sufficiency. - Bruce E. Tonn

Forecasting the Next Industrial Revolution - A Structural Perspective from Evolutionary Economic. - Denis L. Balaguer (WFS)

Through the Crisis of Maturity - Forecasts of an Economic Boom in 2015. - William E. Halal (WFS)

EDUCATION

In Praise of Academic Disengagement. - Michael Bugeja (WFS)

High Schools of the Future - "Boot Camp". - Arthur Shostak (WFS)

Toys to Change Our Mind. - Sherry Turkle (OUP - Predictions)

ENERGY - see OIL, GAS AND EVERGY

ENVIRONMENT - see CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT

ETHICS - see VALUE AND ETHICS

ETHNICITY, RACE AND COLOUR

The Colour Line. - Chinua Achebe - (OUP - Predictions)

EVOLUTION

Re-Directing the Course of Human Evolution. - James Watson (OUP - Predictions)

FINANCE - see ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND TRADE

FUTURE

One Giant Leap for Mankind - Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Hominina Evolution. - Julian F. Derry (WFS)

A New End, A New Beginning. - John L. Petersen (WFS)

The Wisdom of Future Consciousness. - Tom Lombardo (WFS) ( see WISDOM )

The Future of Nuclear Energy. - Vladimir Knapp and Gioietta Kuo (WFS) ( see OIL, GAS AND ENERGY )

The Future is All Around Us. - Clifton Anderson (WFS) ( see  CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT )

High Schools of the Future - "Boot Camp". - Arthur Shostak (WFS) ( see EDUCATION )

The Next Generation of Forecasters - The Future Futurists. - Irving H. Buchen (WFS)

GOVERNMENT
Why replace the UN with a Directly Elected Parliament? - Brian Coughlan (WFS) 

HEALTH

Will we discover new ways of doing away with cancer, AIDS, obesity? - Jacques Attali

Supertrend Three: Improving health - Edward Cornish

How can the threat of new and reemerging diseases and immune microorganisms be reduced? Jerome C. Glenn

Disruptive Innovation - The Future of Primary Health Care. - Jay Herson (WFS)

Complex Cancers, Simple Cells. - Paul Nurse (OUP - Predictions)

HISTORY

2099 ... The Beginning of History. - Arthur C/ Clarke (OUP - Predictions)

HUMAN RIGHT

A Basic Human Right. - Dale Spender (OUP - Predictions)

LEADERSHIP

Every Nation For Itself - Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World - Ian Bremer

Traitors and Betrayers cccording to PM - A. Kadir Yasin (Blog entry on 26-11-2013)

Bad New About Malaysia Going Bankrupt - Rocky Bru (Blog entry on 26-11-2013)

How To Run The World - Charting A Course To The Next Renaissance - Parag Khanna

Leadership as Legacy Work. - Les Wallace and James Trinka (WFS)

Power, Responsibility and Wisdom - Exploring the Issues at the Core of Ethical Decision Making and Leadership. - Bruce Lloyd (WFS)

Wisdom and Leadership - Linking the Pas, Present and Future. - Bruce Lloyd (WFS)

MARRIAGE - see BIRTH RATES, MARRIAGE AND FAMILY PLANNING

MORAL - see VALUES AND ETHICS

OIL, GAS AND ENERGY

Will oil supplies run out in twenty or fifty years? - Jacques Attali

Will we find substitute energy sources? - Jacques Attali

How can energy demand be met safely and efficiently? - Jerome C. Glenn

The Future of Nuclear Energy - Vladimir Knapp and Gioietta Kuo (WFS)

Energy 2020 - A Vision of the Future. - Jose Luis Cordeiro (WFS)


PEACE IN THE WORLD AND THE MIDDLE EAST

Will peace in the Middle East one day be possible? - Jacques Attali

Will terrorist attack in the West topple a government? - Jacques Attali


POLITICS

How can policy making be made more sensitive to global long-term perspectives? Jerome C. Glenn

The Leaderless Revolution - How Ordinary People Will Take Power And Change Politics In The 21st Century - Carne Ross

Why Nations Fail - The Origins of  Power, Prosperity And Poverty -  Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson

The Politics of Women. - Francis Fukuyama (OUP - Predictions)

POVERTY

Will poverty and inequalities in wealthy countries become the wellspring for new violence?

Why Nations Fail - The Origins Of Power, Prosperity And Poverty - Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson

RACE - see ETHNICITY, RACE AND COLOUR


RELIGION AND CULTURE

Will religions become tolerant? - Jacques Attali

Will a dominant new religion or ideology emerge? - Jacques Attali

Will a religious war once again pit Christianity against Islam? - Jacques Attali

Will new forms of sexual relations undermine morality? - Jacques Attali

Supertrend Six: Increasing Deculturation (Loss of Traditional Culture) - Edward Cornish

Through New Eyes - Transcending Culture-Based Assumptions. - Dave Stein (WFS)

RENAISSANCE

How To Run The World - Charting A Course To The Next Renaissance - Parag Khanna

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Will genetically modified food or nanotechnologies prove a threat or an opportunity? - Jacques Attali

Supertrend One: Technological progress - Edward Cornish

How can scientific and technological breakthroughs be accelerated to improve the human conditions? - Jerome C. Glenn

The Fifth Engine of Creation - David Harper (WFS)

Seeing the Future through The Lens of Telegeography - Looking at New Ways to Address Global Warming, Clean Energy, and the 9/11 Attacks. - Joseph N. Pelton and Christine Robinson (WFS)

Macrotechnology Analysis. - Paul Crabtree (WFS)

Signs and Wonders - Information Technology, Cybernetics, and the Dawn of the Postliterate Age. - Patrick Tucker (WFS)

SPACE

Expansion for the Good of Humanity. - Francis R. Stabler (WFS)

TRADE - see ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND TRADE

TRANSPORTATION

Will the Straits of Hormuz and Malacca, through which the bulk of the world's oil flows, be blocked by ships sunk by pirates? - Jacques Attali

Supertrend Four: Increasing mobility - Edward Cornish

Complete control of the maritime approaches to the United States by the navy in order to preclude any possibility of invasion -  George Friedman


VALUES AND ETHICS

Love - Ce Det (Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad blog entry on 25-11-2013)

What is the relevance of such values as courage, honesty, discipline, diligence and loyalty in life? - Jacques Attali

How can ethical considerations become more routinely incorporated into global decisions? - Jerome C. Glenn

Applying and Prioritizing Moral Values in the Creative Process - Some Important Threshold Issues. - Michael Blinick (WFS)

A New Ethics. - Peter Singer (OUP - Predictions)

WAGES see WORKERS AND WAGES

WARS - see WEAPONS AND WARS

WATER

How can everyone have sufficient clean water without conflict? - Jerome C. Gless


WEAPONS AND WARS

Will North Korea end up using nuclear weapons? - Jacques Attali

Will the West use force to prevent Iran from acquiring them? - Jacques Attali

The elimination of any threat to the United States by any power in the Western Hemisphere - George Friedman

How can shared values and new security strategies reduce ethnic conflicts, terrorism, and the use of weapons of mass destruction? - Jerome C. Glenn

The Future of Holocaust Memorialization - Altruism in Extremes. - Arthur B. Shostak (WFS)

WISDOM

The Wisdom of Future Consciousness. - Tom Lombardo (WFS)

WOMEN

How can the changing status of women help improve the human condition? Jerome C. Glenn

The Politics of Women. - Francis Fukuyama (OUP - Predictions)

WORKERS AND WAGES

Will the exploited workers in Chinese or Bangladeshi mines rise up in revolt? - Jacques Attali

How can the capacity to decide be improved as the nature of work and institutions change? Jerome C. Glenn

Paid Volunteerism - Is There an Oxymoron in Our Future. - Jay Herson (WFS)

Future Patterns of Work and Retirement - The Evolving Third Age. - Anna M. Rappaport (WFS)

Penalize the Bankers, Not the Workers. - J. K. Gilbraith (OUP - Predictions)