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.
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.
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)
3 comments:
if our education system produce someone have a knowledge but does not know how to implement the ideas (2) someone have power to implement the ideas but does not have a knowledge about the implementation.
How the list of authors will help our nations.
Dear Readers. The purpose of this blog submission is just to remind Malaysians, especially the Malays, of what others are thinking and writing about while we quarrel and argue over petty things among ourselves. The names of the authors and their articles are not meant for selection by any government department, agency or GLC as consultants. Far from it. We have enough of those. As to who can help us, or our nation, I volunteer to remind that 'God will not change the fate of men until they change themselves.' May Allah s.w.t. bless all of us with His continuous guidance.
Dear Mr. Sanusi...May Allah s.w.t Always bless you..regards from jakarta
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