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Weekly MFSIG Meetings ...
Special Interest Groups (SIG)

Current Meetings

March 7, 2009 Future Studies and Special Presentations SIG
Title: "Future Toys"
Presenter: David Keenan
Abstract: Toys are a means of exploring and learning, for adults as well as children. We will review a forecast of toys for the future and then examine several recent announcements of new toys.

March 14, 2009 Economics SIG
Topic: "Money as Debt"
MNF Speaker: George Paulos
Abstract: Current financing practices have been found severely lacking since the global credit crisis hit in late 2007. The U.S., technically broke, has had to borrow heavily to fund its bailout and stimulus programs, increasing its debt from $5 billion to $11 billion in eight years. How long can we continue to use debt as money? When will better economists come along?

March 21, 2009 = Open
Topic: TBD
Speaker: TBD

March 28, 2009 - Open
Topic: TBD
Speaker: TBD

April 4, 2009 - Open
Topic: TBD
Speaker: TBD

April 11, 2009 - Open
Topic: TBD
Speaker: TBD

April. 18, 2009 = Techniology SIG
Title: "The Path to Energy Independence "
Presenters: Brian Toren and Ulrich Bonne
Moderator: George Kubic
Abstract: This SIG seminar is a working session; there are three objectives: one, review some basic futurist forecasting tools; two, review a future forecasting process called SEPT (Social, Ecnomical, Political and Technical) impact analysis tool; three, introduce a weighting matrix based on Kemper Trego. The future addressed is the energy independence. The goal is to reduce a list of possible future, and create a preferable future list.The possble list comes from two professors from Princeton: Robert Socolow, engineering and Stephen Pacala, ecology. While several of the alternative approaches may be eliminated quickly there will only be time to seriously evaluate 2 or 3, of the 17 listed possibilities, during one futurist SIG session.

For more information go to: Minnesota Futurists Wiki

For Past Meeting Information go to: JanñFeb, 2009

SIGs meet at:

The Knights of Columbus Hall1114 American Blvd West
Bloomington, MN (one block south of 494 and a block east of 35W).

Take the Lyndale exit from 494, go south and then west on American Blvd. See map below.