WorldFuture 2004 Creating the Future Now! July 31-August 2, 2004 * Grand Hyatt Washington *...

Ideas and Insights to Inspire You

WorldFuture 2004: Creating the Future Now! will feature more than 100 outstanding speakers, including Ray Kurzweil, a 2002 inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He is best known for his work with speech synthesis, optical character recognition,

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Other leading futurists and experts you'll meet at the conference include Joel Barker, on-screen host of Joel Barker's Leadershift; John W. McDonald, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and now chairman and co-founder of the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy; Jo Ellen Roseman, director of Project 2061, a science-literacy initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and Jay Gary, president of PeakFutures, a leading advocate for civic and faith-based community building. (For the latest information on speakers and other conference news, visit www.wfs.org/2004main.htm.)

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Building Your Futures Network

World Future Society conferences offer you the chance to meet and hear directly from futurists whose work you've followed in Society publications or on its Web Forums--and share your own ideas with them and with other attendees from around the world. Networking opportunities abound, such as meet-the-author sessions, receptions, luncheons, dinner groups, and tours.

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Often at Society meetings, special-interest futurist groups also organize theme tracks, including Police Futurists International, Communities of the Future, the University of Houston-Clear Lake's Graduate Program in Studies of the Future, and the Society's Mexican chapter (which recently organized a major international conference of its own).

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Whether your interests are specialized or generalized, you will find like-thinking fellowship to help you "create the future now."

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Themes and Sample Sessions

The conference is organized around these key themes:

* Future Methodologies and Processes

* Technology and Science

* Business and Careers

* Health and Personal Growth

* Resources and Environment

* Gender, Generations, and Culture

* Learning and Education

* Consciousness and Spirituality

* Governance and Communities

Among the sessions scheduled already are: "Technology Futures Analysis," "The Future of Children's Play," "Cyborg Law," "Unleashing Creativity in the University," "Emerging Diseases," "The Future of Transmodern Spirituality," "Technology Literacy in Education," "Developing a Scenario Planning Process," "The Future of eCommerce"--and much, much more!

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