Starting in 2019, the world moved from the Pre-Covid-19 period into the Covid-19 period. Everywhere clusters of people were becoming infected with Covid-19 and many deaths were occurring. Countries did their best to control the pandemic by urging their people to wear a mask, wash their hands frequently, avoid touching their faces and keeping at […]
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The near-term future is catastrophic and depressing. The longer term is potentially transformative and uplifting… if we fully understand the possibilities and needs of this decade. As a futurist, I pride myself on the accuracy of my forecasts. When they have not been pinpoint accurate, they are usually directionally correct. That is my intention here, […]
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In thinking about mankind’s future, one can be either an optimist or a pessimist. Let’s start with an optimistic mindset. Taking a long view of mankind’s history, humans have moved far beyond the Neanderthal stage and today homo sapiens are the dominant human species. Humans have passed through the hunter/gatherer stage, the […]
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On Saturday April 25, The Sarasota Institute will present two one-hour virtual symposiums. These are a part of the virtual mini-symposiums we are producing that view some of our 10 topics through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic. We at the Institute think that this pandemic will have significant short, mid and long-term effects […]
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The Sarasota Institute is focusing on how COVID-19 may affect some of the 10 categories listed across the top of this web site. We are having virtual mini-symposiums on several of these during April and May. In addition, we are publishing thought pieces taking looks into the future. Here is a column about […]
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Once you go to our web site https://sarasotainstitute.global/ then please click on the tab Videos and Podcasts. You will see a drop-down menu: Symposiums, Podcasts, Media. All three of these pages now have great content to view and listen. On the Symposiums page we have videos from both our symposiums at the Neel Performing […]
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[Preamble – As a futurist my mind is exploding with all the possible long-term disruptions inherent in the global COVID-19 reality. In addition, I have supplemented my 200+ inbound emails, content aggregators, research newsletters with some information provided to me by friends who are connected at the highest level of health executives nationwide.] Short-term […]
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I think so. Look how quickly society has changed over the last two weeks. What would it look like if the world responded to our climate crisis with a similar sense of urgency? We have a big problem – and it’s not the pandemic or our climate crisis. Those are symptoms. It’s how we […]
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The climate crisis symposium presented by The Sarasota Institute, a 21st Century Think Tank is now available to view at your convenience. The full symposium was live streamed to the world all day 2/29/20 and the edited down version can now be viewed here The event, named “A Leap Year Look at Climate Change” […]
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This coming Saturday February 29, 2020 The Sarasota Institute – A 21st Century Think Tank will be presenting our next symposium. “ A Leap Year Look at Climate Change”. It will be nothing less than a completely new climate crisis conference. In the morning we will present the developing catastrophe globally, have a panel […]
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