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RAND WILL LOOK FARTHER AHEAD

What will the human condition be like in the year 2100 or 2200? And how might we enhance the quality of life over that period of time? Such questions will be the concern of RAND's new Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition.

The Center is the latest beneficiary of real estate entrepreneur
Frederick S. Pardee, who also funded the Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University (see July 2001 FUTURIST UPDATE). Pardee worked at RAND as a systems analyst from 1957 to 1971.

The Center will explore trends and potential developments over the next 35 to 200 years, seeking ways to evaluate the impacts of these trends on individuals and society.

"Some might regard this as an unlikely topic for serious investigation," says Pardee. "But we're not living in a world that is completely uncertain. We have made important progress in thinking systematically about the future."

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Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition	The RAND Pardee Center pursues ambitious objectives: to improve our ability to think about the longer-range future--from 35 to as far as 200 years ahead--and to develop new methods of analyzing potential long-range, global effects of today's policy options in order to design sound policies that are sensitive to those effects.
International Centre for Technology Assessment	This private, non-profit, non-partisan group is committed to providing the public with full assessments and analyses of technological impacts on society.
World meters	World Game Institute's up-to-the minute statistics
Environmental News Network	Latest information on environmental issues
American Civil Liberties Union	America's foremost advocate of individual rights
Amnesty International	An activist organization dedicated to freeing prisoners of conscience
Ecological Society of America	Current issues in ecological studies
National Science Foundation	A basic site for science information
Institute of Medicine	Information on current medical research
About.Com (AI)	Artificial intelligence (AI) issues covered at About.Com.
Alvin Toffler, PhD.	Futurist author of Future Shock
Center for Responsive Politics	Research group tracks money in politics
Eurekalert	News of advances in science and technology
Full-Sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer (FAME)	Mapping outer-space
Futures Community Center	Planet-Tech Associates
Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies	Graduate program in futures research
Proceedings of Third World Futures Conference	Sponsored by the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies
Northern Arizona University: Futures Forum	Graduate program in futures research
PEW Research Center	Independent opinion research group studies public attitudes toward press, politics, and public policy issues.
Potentials Media	Learn about futurists and their visions.
Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon	Hans Moravec
Science Daily	Science news reports
World Future Society	International organization monitoring research and developments in field of futurology

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