
Weblogs that are helpful for strategic foresight or futures research.
Top Foresight
Accelerating Future
Intriguing reporting from the transhumanist frontier (Michael Anissimov)
AGI-World
Bruce Klein's blog on artificial general intelligence
APM's Future Tense
American Public Media. Daily "five-minute capsules" on the latest technology topics (Jon Gordon)
A Thousand Tomorrows
Panopticon's incisive and integral blog on foresight and futuring (Belgium).
Black Belt Bayesian
Methodical rationality and accelerating technological trends
Brian Johnson's Zaadz Blog
Brian Johnson's CEO-blog on Zaadz, a social change network.
Broader Perspective
Insights into personal, societal, and technological transformation (Melanie Swan).
Depressed Metabolism
The latest in cryonics research (Aschwin de Wolf, Chana de Wolf)
Existence is Wonderful
Life Extension and Neurodiversity (Anne Corwin)
Fight Aging!
Weblog on developments in radical life extension
Foresight Culture
Thoughts on improving organizational foresight by John Mahaffie, Leading Futurists LLC
FringeHog
Futurist ideas on the verge (Sandra Burchsted, Michele Bowman, Jamais Cascio, Wayne Pethrick)
Future Current
Transcripts from futurist conference talks and interviews
Future Pundit
Science and tech trends and their likely effects on society, politics, and evolution (Randall Parker)
Global Voices Online
A global community of bloggers, video bloggers, and citizen journalists speaking out about social justice and humanitarian issues (Berkman Center, Harvard U)
IFTF's Future Now
Alex Pang's blog on the future of technoly, health, and organizational change.
Integral Singularity
Lion Albaugh's vision for a balanced, human-championing approach to biology-surpassing technological intelligence. Great title.
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Promoting the democratization of science and the advancement of sustainability policy and technologies (Arjun Makhijani)Kevin Kelly Cool Tools
Great books, gadgets, software, videos, maps, hardware, and websites you should know about.
KurzweilAI.net's Accelerating Intelligence News
Ray Kurzweil's updates on leading-edge and bleeding-edge tech advances.
Lessig Blog
Lawrence Lessig on building the creative commons, a user-centric cyberspace.
Lifeboat Foundation Blog
Weblog on existential risk mitigation
Medgadget
Internet journal of emerging medical technologies. Nicely futuristic.
Michael Graham Richard
Futurism weblog by Michael Graham Richard
Minding the Planet
Nova Spivak's thoughts on the emerging high-tech planet.
Next Big Future
Brian Wang on nanotechnology, space travel and many other technologies
Next Nature
Exploring how culture and technology are becoming autonomous (Koert Mensvoort, Netherlands)
Oligopoly Watch
Charting the rise and influence of MNC oligopolies globally. Insightful.
Open The Future
Cultural observations from a leading professional futurist (Jamais Cascio)
Paleofuture
Excellent lookbacks to "the future that never was." Prediction analysis (examining strengths and weaknesses of past prediction).
Retrofuture
Short, insightful essays on previous future predictions. Valuable for prediction analysis.
Ross Mayfield's Weblog
Thoughts on markets, technology, and digital culture.
Self-Aware Systems
Steve Omohundro's posts on self-improving AI technology
Sentient Developments
Award-winning blog by Toronto-based futurist George Dvorsky
SIAI Blog
Seeking a sooner, safer transition to generalized artificial intelligence (Tyler Emerson, Eliezer Yudkowsky)
Sonia Says...
Blog on technological developments, lately focusing on radical life extension (Sonia Arrison)
Speculist
Thoughtful reporting on positive trends and future developments (Phil Bowermaster)
The Future of Things
Community blog on AI, longevity, technology, futurism, etc. (Iddo Genuth, Israel)
Unreliable Futures
Blog by author of The Rough Guide to the Future - a work in progress. (Jon Turney)
WorldChanging
Alex Steffen's blog on ways to create a "bright green" future.
Science
Evolving Thoughts
Philosophy of biology, science, and systematics (John Whitfield)
Sandwalk
Rationalist, naturalist discussion of evolution, nice critiques of 'Intelligent Design' folks (Larry Moran, Prof. of Biochem at U. Toronto).
Structure & Strangeness
Network analysis (social, economic, technical), ev. biology, constraints on morphological diversity computer science (Aaron Clauset)
The Inverse Square
Science and public policy. (Thomas Levenson)
The Reference Frame
Physics and world events from a conservative superstring physicist (Lubos Motl)
Three Toed Sloth
A gifted polymath's thoughts about life, the universe, and everything (Cosma Shalizi)
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