After a 13-year hiatus, our good friends at the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa recently began publishing their occasional journal called the Manoa Journal of Fried and Half-Fried Ideas. The on-line journal is published by the students at the University of Hawaii’s futures program, but the current issue contains a raft of articles from the ‘other UH’–the University of Houston’s Master’s degree program in Futures Studies.
The articles represent a broad range of what Houston students do in their classes. The two major pieces are “(XXX)potential Impact: The Future of the Commercial Sex Industry in 2030” by Emily Empel and “Paradoxes of the Past and Present: The Dilemma and Enigma Of Capitalism” by Christopher Manfredi. Two shorter pieces are “12 Monkeys – One Future” by Joshua Lindenger, a review of a 1997 futures film, and “Black Net” by James Breaux, a scenario of a black market network of stolen RFID bandwidth in 2036. In fact, Houston students dominated the journal, publishing four of the six major pieces…
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