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These are papers written for my MS in Studies of the Future at the University of Houston - Clear Lake, Texas, USA. You can see my thesis, 'Conceptual Dissemination Between the Internet and the Mainstream,' here. If you like this section you might also want to look at my futures weblog, Overmorgen. |
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Fall 1999 | |
Introduction to Future Studies | Grade: A | |||||
Why Future Studies? |
PDF version | 1999-09-12 | ||||
Scanning Journal |
1999-12-04 | |||||
Personal Theory of Social Change |
PDF version | 1999-09-19 | ||||
Critical Analysis of Futures Research |
PDF version | 1999-10-16 | ||||
Imagining Difference |
PDF version | 1999-11-08 | ||||
Devising Strategies |
PDF version | 1999-11-28 | ||||
Futures Methods I | Grade: A | |||||
Letter to the Editor |
PDF version | 1999-10-15 | ||||
Research and Scanning |
PDF version | 1999-12-01 | ||||
Interview Report |
PDF version | 1999-11-02 | ||||
Questionnaire Report |
PDF version | 1999-12-01 | ||||
Datasets and Two-point Comparison |
PDF version | 1999-11-30 | ||||
Time Series Report |
PDF version | 1999-12-01 | ||||
Systems Approaches | Grade: A | |||||
The Systems Perspective |
PDF version | 1999-10-08 | ||||
Example Systems |
PDF version | 1999-11-11 | ||||
A System Model |
PDF version | 1999-11-25 | ||||
Spring 2000 | |
Social Change | Grade: A | |||||
Technological Change and the Internet A discussion of theories of technological change in relation to the Internet. |
PDF version | 2000-02-21 | ||||
Progressive Change |
PDF version | 2000-02-13 | ||||
Ideational Change How ideas can spread through society by word of mouth. |
PDF version | 2000-03-19 | ||||
My Theory of Social Change A combined theory of social change using a causal loop diagram. |
PDF version | 2000-04-21 | ||||
Futures Methods II | Grade: A | |||||
Analysing Scenarios |
PDF version | 2000-02-25 | ||||
Scenario Building |
PDF version | 2000-03-28 | ||||
Visioning |
PDF version | 2000-04-24 | ||||
World Futures | Grade: A | |||||
Future of Urbanism Framework Document |
PDF version | 2000-04-24 | ||||
Fall 2001 | |
Creating Cultures | Grade: A- | |||||
A Mars Colony A group project: a political and social system for a future colony on Mars. The sci-fi theme took second place to the other aspects. |
PDF version | 2000-12-03 | ||||