Expeditions and Exploring

-- a university of arizona course on methods and approaches for studying the future

The web is a nice place to find what you want but also finding things you don't want also happens. Sometimes this is good, and sometimes it is bad. Here, we want to take advantage of the richness of the web in learning about things you don't normally know about. This is an essential ingredient in futures studies - gaining new perspectives.

Expeditions (I will be your guide by suggesting only a few locations)

Expedition 1: Looking at New Territories

Expedition 2: A Potpourri of Sites from "Best of the Web"

Expedition 3: Learn a little about other cultures

 

Exploring (you are on your own)

WebCrawler "random links"

Global Business Network - look at reading list

Consciousness Studies (University of Arizona)

Doctors Guide

Looking at the listservs available on Internet

Idea Futures - check it out

Mining Environmental Issues from Internet

The History Net (History on the web)

Open Secrets

Worldwide Governments on the web

Professional Organizations - many fields listed

History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Portals to the World (Library of Congress countries listing)

 

Exploring Virtually (its as good as being there)

Virtual Agriculture

Virtual Space

Virtual Hospital

Virtual Museums

Virtual Teams

Virtual Organizations

Listing of selected virtual universities

Listing of selected virtual high schools

Virtual Schools: Trends and Issues (October 2001)

 

Mind Extending (watch out for black holes)

Skeptics Page

Mensa Information, Articles, and Test

Knowbots. infobots, and robots

Native Americans and the Environment

University of Hawaii Innovation Center

Innovation Network

Memes (Information patterns/ideas/new approaches)

Memes (Lifecycles of Memes)