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World Future 2011 Moving from Vision to Action
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2010-12-16 14:07:48, 조회 : 2,315 |
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WorldFuture 2011
Moving from Vision to Action
Here are a handful of the 50+ sessions about “Moving from Vision to Action”:
Culture
The Future of Language,
Lawrence Baines, University of Oklahoma-Norman, Norman, Oklahoma
Of the 6,000 unique languages on planet earth, as many as 5,000 could perish by 2050. Accelerating the decline in the diversity of languages is the increasingly globalized nature of communications. On the Internet, 85% of all messages are communicated using only ten different languages. At the same time, a plethora of texting phrases, such as LOL and IDK, become rapidly and seamlessly integrated into the language. The future of language is at once a simplified plainspeak as well as a condensed technospeak.
Resources and Environment
The New Maritime Arctic: Global Connections, register for Saturday Keynote Luncheon
Lawson Brigham, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks,
The Top of the World is undergoing extraordinary changes. The maritime Arctic is a case study illustrating an interplay of global forces—climate change, globalization, and regional geopolitics—where modern scenarios thinking and futures tools can be applied to better under the uncertainties in a dynamic and changing place. The complexity and range of issues makes the Arctic Ocean a challenge for public strategic planners and regulators in the Arctic, as well as planners in an array of global industries.
Health and Wellness
Healthspital 2.0: Paradigm Shifting Reinvention of the American Community Hospital
Frank W. Maletz, orthopaedic surgeon. Captain naval reserve, Persian Gulf service aboard hospital ship USNS Comfort
Health care is estimated to be a $2.3-trillion industry and represents 16%–17% of GDP. Its delivery is sickness-intervention based, fragmented, and lacks integration. If the biggest five issues were addressed—appropriate level of care, prevention strategies, chronic care management, end-of-life futile interventions, and the end of waste, duplication, reprocessing, and repetition—there would be better quality and outcomes, with money left over to reinvest in health and wellness pursuits. This model works at the commuity level and integrates information/social networking technologies with best-practice dissemination. Barriers to implementation are discussed.
Learning and Education
So This is School? Brian Collins, Florida Virtual School, Orlando, Florida
As educational opportunities move from the traditional classroom to cyberspace and beyond, the very paradigm of how students are engaged is being redefined. Mobile devices? Location based technologies? Gaming? Holograms? Artificial intelligence? All of these things, and more, are converging to provide unparalled experiences for today’s learners. The most innovative schools are exploring bold steps to redefine where and how educational content is being delivered. This, combined with an understanding of where technology and society is heading, with a little imagination thrown in, will provide profound changes in the educational landscape and surely captivate students as we move into the future!
Health and Human Rights
The Future and Urban Health Equity, Clem Bezold, founder and chairman of the board, Institute for Alternative Futures
Health equity is likely to be the next civil-rights movement. Great inequities are everywhere as revealed in the recent report of the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. Topics will include the relationship of urban planning, social conditions, climate change, globalization, urban and regional governance, and technology to urban health equity.
Government and Security
Police Department 2020: From Hierarchies to Networks, John Jackson, Houston Police Department and member of the FBI/PFI Futures Working Group
Despite the dramatic changes that have occurred over the past half century, government remains deeply rooted in Industrial Age organizational structures. Highly institutionalized and politicized, these agencies are cursed by inertia. Alternatives to the highly bureaucratized and hierarchical networks that dominate government agencies promise the ability to accomplish important missions in a faster, less-expensive way. The panel examines how a transformation to an agile networked future might occur. Through the example of a fictional police department in 2020, the panel describes how a police agency built on an alternative network paradigm might function. Using the backcasting method, the panel also lays out a course for achieving such a transformation.
Technology and Governance
The Weak Signal of Mobile Governance
Rick Smyre, president, Center for Communities of the Future, Gastonia, North Carolina
Many local leaders are not familiar with social and economic trends and weak signals, and, as a result, they are often not able to develop effective strategies to maximize the quality of life in their communities. With the advent of smart phones and GPS systems, we are entering a new age that will lead to a new concept,\"mobile governance,\" where community leaders will work in partnership with community members to find cutting edge concepts and techniques to resolve new challenges. As these new processes develop, a shift will occur from radical individualism to deeper collaboration.
Please go ahead and reserve your hotel room at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre by registering at http://bit.ly/gN8Cjh.
More details continue to evolve on our website, www.wfs.org. Check back for updates, or call Jennifer Boykin, the new WFS Director of Development with ideas or questions regarding the conference. She can be reached at (301)656-8274 x105.
I look forward to seeing you in Vancouver!
Cordially,
Timothy Mack
President
World Future Society
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