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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Mankind is faced with a profound dilemma. To resist growth is to risk economic collapse. To continue to pursue growth relentlessly ensures collapse of our ecosystem which supports all life. For the most part, this dilemma goes unrecognized. All of our institutions continually point in the wrong direction. Those that do recognize the dilemma […]
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“An Educated Person in 2035” our symposium about the future of education had an attendance of some 225 people with many educators participating and in the audience. The level of participation and engagement was high. It was noted by several people that many of the more influential people in the Gulf Coast area of Sarasota/Bradenton […]
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