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.
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.
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.
www.freedomship.com/

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

Narrows Crossing - A community developing in Puget Sound following progressive ideals.
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.
www.thevenusproject.com/

Vision 2020 - Project to use self replicating robotics launched onto the moon to harness solar energy.
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.
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>
www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/millennium/timecapsule/