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What will the future look like once we expand our conception of consciousness to include the extended mind and integrated intelligence?
What changes can we expect in science, education, business and society as a whole? What practical applications are we likely to see, including high-tech, low-tech and no-tech? Who are the men and women who will drive the ideas and innovation?

This is Planet Schwarzenegger

What if you could become a copy of anybody you love or admire? This Is Planet Schwarzenegger is a science fiction adventure set in the year 2373, when human civilisation has spread across the arm of the galaxy. Genetic manipulation has greatly advanced, allowing people to live out their fantasy lives. Some humans choose to become replicas of their idols. The rich, the famous and historical figures are popular choices. Richard Quaid, an Arnold Schwarzenegger replica, realises his life dream to travel to Planet Schwarzenegger – a theme-world devoted to honouring the great Austrian bodybuilder and actor. However when he gets there he finds finds he has become ensnared in mysterious series of events. Arnold replicas have been disappearing – and Quaid may be the next to be terminated! Quaid must solve the mystery and get to the bottom of the terrible secret of Planet Schwarzenegger – before it’s too late.

The changing living spaces of the future

How will our living spaces change in the future? According to Amanda Talbot, author of Rethink: The Way You Live, many people are now choosing to change the nature of their homes and the spaces within them. Many are making the choice to live in smaller homes closer to the city CBD and their workplaces.…

Education For Transformation: Integrated Intelligence in the Knowledge Society and Beyond

ACADEMIC ARTICLES: The purpose of this paper is to introduce several possibilities and potentials regarding the implementation of integrated intelligence into the modern pubic education system and the knowledge economy which it serves. There are thus two seminal questions. Firstly, what general uses might integrated intelligence have in the modern secular public education system? Secondly,…

Deepening Russian Futures

ACADEMIC ARTICLES: This conceptual paper expands upon the concept of Deep Futures (DF), as introduced in a previous volume of Foresight. It shall be argued that Deep Futures is part of the emerging discipline of Postconventional Futures Studies (PFS) Title: Deepening Russian Futures (Deep Futures, part 2) Journal: Foresight (Russia – translated into Russian) Date: Upcoming, late 2012 Paper…

Harmonic Circles: An Introspective Tool for Futurists

ACADEMIC. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a Futures tool developed by Marcus Anthony called Harmonic Circles. There is a description of the tool itself, and its purposes. An example from the author’s own research is used to demonstrate one potential way of implementing Harmonic Circles. Some appropriate and inappropriate applications of Harmonic…

Integrated Intelligence

BOOKS (ACADEMIC): This book is an exhaustive coverage of a crucial but poorly understood subject  matter. Marcus T. Anthony examines theories of intelligence and consciousness, and the way in which they represent (or exclude) intuitive, spiritual and mystical experience. It will satisfy the more academically rigorous reader. Marcus T. Anthony’s argument identifies the way narrowly…