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Award-winning science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer speaks with WIE's Tom Huston about the virtues of good fiction, compelling science, and an active interest in the future.

Winner of over thirty-five national and international awards for science fiction writing, prolific and popular sci-fi author Robert J. Sawyer speaks with WIE’s Tom Huston about the future of immortality, the moral implications of living forever, and what challenges we would face if we could sustain our consciousness just as it is . . . forever.

A technology forecaster and strategic advisor to Fortune 500 companies, Dan Burrus shares his insights about new innovations on the horizon and explores why it’s so important to start thinking about the future today.

Pentagon insider Thomas Barnett draws on decades of experience as a strategic consultant to the world's most powerful military to paint a remarkably idealistic picture of what the world could look like in the twenty-first century.

Futurist John Petersen speaks with EnlightenNext’s Carter Phipps about his new book, A Vision for 2012: Planning for Extraordinary Change, and why he feels that we may be headed toward one of the biggest transitions in human history.

EnlightenNext’s Carter Phipps speaks with occult scholar Gary Lachman about the rich and often overlooked relationship between Western esotericism, social change, and politics throughout history.

Washington Post reporter Joel Garreau, author of Radical Evolution, describes some of the most exciting new technologies on the horizon that have the potential to dramatically transform our lives in the not-too-distant future.

EnlightenNext speaks to techno-prophet Ray Kurzweil, and conscious capitalist Patricia Aburdene about where they think the world is going in the next five years.

John Petersen, Arlington Institute founder and renowned futurist, speaks with WIE's Maura O'Connor about the Mayan prophesy for 2012, rapid climate change, and how best to prepare for the end of the world.

We know who you are: human scanners, memory reading, genetic engineering, and the coming loss of anonymity.

From the far out to the close at hand, four futurists zoom out for a bird's eye view on the global changes we're experiencing now and can anticipate in the future—each outlining both the unprecedented challenges and mind-spinning opportunities humanity faces in the minutes and years to come

Surprising scenarios of promise and peril from John Petersen, founder of futurist think tank, the Arlington Institute.

This Internet entrepreneur and philanthropist has a dazzling vision of a 2050 society and some bold ideas to get us there.

A review of The Physics of Immortality, Frank J. Tipler's reductionist prophecy of an eternity far stranger than paradise.

According to evolutionary activist Duane Elgin, the most vital determining factor in our collective awakening is not mystical experience . . . it’s television.

Enter a multidimensional journey through history, cyberspace (and small-town America) as a broad spectrum of religious authorities takes on the burning question: How can the world's great traditions cope with the complexities of human life in the 21st century and beyond?

An evolutionary thinker gazes into the near future and sees the advent of a new kind of human being.