Tuesday, April 26, 2016

The Future


Information on future climate & more from Big Facts.  (The Big Facts project is led by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). CCAFS is a strategic partnership of CGIAR and Future Earth, led by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). CCAFS brings together the world’s best researchers in agricultural science, development research, climate science and Earth System science, to identify and address the most important interactions, synergies and tradeoffs between climate change, agriculture and food security.)


newsoffuture.com Future News for Year 2020 and Beyond

Recommended: futureforall.org/ A Layperson's View of Future Technology and Society

globalfuturist.com Harnessing the Power of Innovation

thefutureofourworld.ytmnd.com The Future of Our World

wfs.org World Future Society

Fw:Thinking Videos on The Future of Money, Future Fuels, Future Time, and more



New:  Sources focusing on our energy future:
http://wgbhnews.org/post/power-people
http://www.npr.org/2013/08/14/212020224/the-grid-of-the-future-could-be-brought-to-you-by-you

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90042092


An article about the future 100 years from now is here.
A second article on immortality and the "singularity" is here

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Guidelines and a rubric for your future project are here.
A slideshow that illustrates how to organize your project is here.

Ideally, the format you choose for your future project will tell something about your interests and your overall future view.  Think imagination will be important?  Make sure your format is imaginative.  Think the future will be hi-tech?  Make sure your format isn't "old-school."  Here are some ideas and formats to consider:

  • Use Inklewriter to write an interactive (choose your own adventure) story online
  • Storybird is a place to write an illustrated children's story online. In the olds days . . .  Now we . . .  MyStoryEditor allows you to write your own story and add photographs.
  • CartoonCamera allows you to take photos and then make cartoons out of them.  These could then be used as the basis for a slideshow.
  • Prezi is a website that helps create dynamic and professional-looking presentations / slideshows. 
  • MindMeister is similar to Prezi -- some people may like it even more.
  • The Haikudeck website allows you to quickly create a visually stunning slideshow that will make your old LibreOffice slideshow look so retro.   Plus it has a built in image search feature that provides you with copyright free images.
  • Want to get even more creative and keep things moving?  Powtoon helps your create animated slideshows and presentations.
  • Use Flashissue or Lucidpress to create an online newsletter / newspaper of the future.
  • Storyworth is a app that helps you create an oral history project involving responses from family members or others.
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