Future Scanner

By  | 12/6/2007 | Filed under: In other news

I received this note regarding Future Scanner, located at memebox.com:

The Future Scanner is a community-powered resource that scours the web for the best future-focused content (predictions by experts, discoveries that will impact future events, product prototypes, industry forecasts, useful resources, etc.) and makes it accessible by future Year and Category. When users locate these types of cool links, they tag them accordingly and submit them as “scans” to the site via their personal accounts. As other users come across interesting scans and vote for the ones they like best, the links that receive the most votes appear on the front page of the Future Scanner. Individual users can also easily keep track of the scans they’ve submitted and voted for via their user accounts.

Looks like Digg for futurists, eh?

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Dr. John Moravec is a faculty member in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development and the Innovation Studies/Master of Liberal Studies graduate programs at the University of Minnesota. He is the principal of Education Futures LLC; a co-founder of the Horizon Forum, a roundtable on the future of education at all levels; and is the editor of Education Futures. He can be emailed at john@educationfutures.com.

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4 Responses to Future Scanner

  1. Thory on 12/8/2007 at 6:06

    I’ve been using the future scanner for a while now and it’s a really useful site for any futurist who may not have the time to scour the net to find out what’s coming next. The URL is

  2. Thory on 12/8/2007 at 6:06

    opps… http://www.futurescanner.net/

  3. Thory on 12/8/2007 at 7:06

    I’ve been using the future scanner for a while now and it’s a really useful site for any futurist who may not have the time to scour the net to find out what’s coming next. The URL is

  4. Thory on 12/8/2007 at 7:06

    opps… http://www.futurescanner.net/

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