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Category Archives: LECTURES
Proposal for Master Class WFS 2015
Proposal for Master Class WFS 2015 Conference in San Francisco Introduction to Strategic Futurist Thinking: How Do We Get From Here to There? Envisioning positive alternative futures is the essential task of futuring. Scenarios are supposed to be stories about how … Continue reading
Making the Future -Master Class- San Francisco
WORLDFUTURE2015.ORG JULY 24-26, 2015 HILTON SAN FRANCISCO UNION SQUARE SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, USA THURSDAY (All classes run from 9:00-5:00.) Strategic Futuring: How to get from Here to There Tsvi Bisk, Director, Center for Strategic Futurist Thinking Micaela Ziv, Pedagogical … Continue reading
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The Economics of Religion
Introduction:
1. Even though there are no statistics on the economics of religion one might reasonably assume that if one calculated the aggregate turnover and cash flow of all the religions and religious activities in the world, their aggregate buying power and the goods and services they purchase, that we are talking about one of the biggest businesses in the world!
2. Organized religion and New Age religiosity are each multi-billion dollar branches of the economy.
3. Furthermore, Religion is the first and largest “information/communications business” in the world. It receives processes and transmits information and has been doing so for thousands of years.
4. Religion has made effective use of every information/communications technology that has ever existed: speaking, writing, printing, radio, television, cassette tapes, Internet etc.
5. Religion has reinvented itself endless times over the centuries – redefining its mission, repackaging its image, reformulating its message. Continue reading
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A Realistic Energy Strategy By Tsvi Bisk
THE FUTURIST Deployable solutions to the energy crisis are in hand. The obstacle is our inability to differentiate between ideological and strategic thinking. Intelligent policy making requires that effective strategies prevail over ideological wishful thinking. “What can we do?” and … Continue reading
What if one billion dollars a year were used to buy Israeli alternative energy technology?
The real challenge for Jewry in the 21st century is to develop concepts of “multi-dimensional” and “multi-purpose” giving. To leverage philanthropic dollars to generate multiple effects- much as smart investors leverage investment dollars to generate multiple effects. As others in … Continue reading
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The Strategic Futurist 