Long Term Positive/Negative Shifts Seen by Futurists
-- a university of arizona course on methods and approaches for studying the future

Long-term positive shifts
Agricultural revolution via biotechnology
Space exploration
Peace/disarmament
Long-term negative shifts
Population overshoot
Global polarization into haves and have-nots
Massive global unemployment
Greenhouse effects by chloroflourocarbons and carbon dioxide
Long-term U.S. economic decline

Futurists Viewpoints | Future Thinkers

Note: a primary reference for much of this material is Coates, Joseph and Jennifer Jarratt. What Futurists Believe, A World Future Society Book, Published by Lamond in 1989. 340 pages.


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Prepared by Roger L. Caldwell