Author Archives | Brenda Miller

Prosperity through communal living: creating community in tough times

Change is happening quickly - and with the economical shifts, it is causing spiritual, mental and physical stresses on much of the population.Many can not find employment that adequately fits their skill level. Downsizing and outsourcing is happening in corporations around the country, and with the effects of rising inflation, many people are at the breaking point.I was in [...]
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Futurists Forecast 2006 With Many Challenges

Each fall a group of futurists from the World Future Society's Minnesota Chapter, the largest and most active chapter of futurists in the world, get together to forecast future world events. Futurists are mostly concerned with the future, projecting out five, 10, 20 years and beyond to long-term future possibilities. However, futurists are often asked for short-term [...]
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2005 Through The Rearview Mirror

Earlier this year in January, this column highlighted the top forecasts for 2005 from a group of futurists from the World Future Society [...]
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Living at the Edge of Chaos: It may not be as bad as it sounds

It's on the news, in our workplace; we face it everyday, even in the sanctuary of our homes. We can't outrun it or hide from it. It is there, everywhere we turn. As a cumulative race, we are living on the edge of chaos. Some of it created by others and some created by ourselves.Senior level executives [...]
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High Technology: Friend or Foe

Speaking computers already exist. Thinking computers, or what is commonly referred to as the "Super Computer," is soon approaching reality and will comprise more intelligence than any human or known genius on the planet, while humans become more mechanical.We already have microchip architects who are racing to increasingly squeeze information onto wafer-thin silicon, as discussed in [...]
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High Technology: Friend or Foe, Part 2

Part 2: Bar-Coding & Implanting Humans Is HereWe are inching closer to the day when every person can be monitored and their whereabouts known due to implantable radio frequency identification microchips and global positioning satellite technology (GPS).Applied Digital Solutions has created and successfully field-tested a prototype of a GPS implant for humans and is hoping Americans can [...]
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High Technology: Friend or Foe – Security & Surveillance Systems

In a few years the common question at a party will be, "Have you been chipped?" In the future, if your credit or debit card is stolen, you may not be calling your bank, but a surgeon. A tiny chip transmitted with personal information is injected in the skin and from a special handheld scanner an individual's [...]
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