Readings

BIG PICTURE REPORTS

The Competitiveness and Innovative Capacity of the United States 2012

MGI Big Data Full Report

Food 2020 Report

CALIFORNIA FUTURES

Institute For The Future’s California 2020 Scenarios (2010)

Trading Futures – Prospects for California’s University (Prof. Catherine Cole, UC Berkeley, 2011)

INTELLECTUAL LEADERSHIP AND TALENT

Joining Trend, College Grows Beyond Name

What You (Really) Need to Know

Imagining the Future of Leadership (Harvard Business Review blog series, 2010 – external link)  [NOTE: this external link leads to the summary article; click on that article’s links to reach the full articles in the series]

This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business (Fast Company, 2012)

UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

A Perfect Storm in Undergraduate Education (Chronicle of Higher Education, 2011)

Physicists Seek to Lose the Lecture as a Teaching Tool

Open Courseware 2.0

NEW! Tenured Professor Departs Stanford U., Hoping to Teach 500,000

Planned MIT Courses May Advance Front On Elite Open Education

 

HEALTHCARE AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Institute For The Future Healthcare 2020 report (2009)

Medical Education Community Makes Concerted Call for Changing the System (AAFP, 2011: Year in Review – external link)

A Doctor in Your Pocket

Half of US Adults Will Be Obese by 2030

US Cardiovascular Disease Costs to Triple by 2030

MORE FOOD FOR THOUGHT

What Will Turn US On in 2030?

Dissing the Dissertation

English Futures Books from the 21st Century