About us
It's not that we know the future, but we are interested in learning about current trends and how they may develop going forward.
What will your life be like 10, 20, 30 years from now? What is possible, probable, and preferable? How should you prepare? What will be the effects of trends that are developing now on your employment, family, health, and community? How will advances in science and technology affect economics, politics, culture, society, business, geopolitics, and more? What are the challenges and opportunities?
If you are interested in how the world is developing and what that might mean for the future, sign up for our Meetup, and you will receive notices of upcoming meetings.
These are the areas that are explored at meetings of Minnesota Futurists.
GENERAL AREAS OF INTEREST - Technology | Sociology | Demographics | Economics | World Affairs | Ecology and the Environment | Genetics, ,Medicine and Health Care | Wealth and Power | Energy | Automation, and Robotics | Transhumanism I Information Networks

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you look at past meetings, it often shows that between 4-6 people sign up for most meetings. In actuality, between 12 and 20 people attend virtually every Saturday morning.
Who are MN Futurists? Established in 1968, Minnesota Futurists is a group of curious people interested in understanding the evolution and state of current social, cultural, economic, geopolitical, scientific, and technological trends and phenomena and then considering [1] the probability of them persisting, accelerating, or regressing, [2] the probable and possible implications if they do, and [3] the future we prefer along with strategies and tactics for moving toward it.
Upcoming events
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MNFuturists "Outbound Change – What can we do to influence the future?"
·OnlineOnlineFrom 9:30 AM to 10:00 AM we discuss RANDOM BITS where anybody can bring information to the group that might be useful or important when considering the future. Then the presentation starts at 10 AM and lasts until noon. There is usually some time for discussion.
Outbound Change – What can we do to influence the future?
The last session with Peter Bishop dealt with Inbound Change, change going on the world, what we can know about the future. This session focuses on Outbound Change, what we can do to influence the future. The approach is quite different from Inbound which deals with trends and scenarios. Join us to discuss the differences.
Presenter - Peter Bishop
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https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84429004388?pwd=aXAvTs9iKf2i0j3qmsu4Mk6ABzxDyf.1Meeting ID: 844 2900 4388
Passcode: 914646Here are a few of Peter Bishop's videos:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGlFfFl-lME&t=218sA, a conversation with an Australian broadcast, one of my most animated presented, if you can stand it!
- 212 - COFFEE Interview: Peter Bishop, CEO Teach the Future, a conversation with a friend and broadcaster in Houston

- 231017 Peter Bishop Interview Steinbeis University.mp4, another conversation a good friend and futurist in Germany.
- Canada@150, keynote to a major project on the future of the civil service in Canada
- Sno-Isle WA, projector didn’t work so completely ad-lib
- Primer EU 2019
- Get Involved!, on-camera promo for a fundraising campaign about seven years ago
- https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/u3s4b10lxrn2lo8wyg6aa/MBA-0114.zip?rlkey=z83b8uhpl3ca61vd92rv7uq7e&dl=0, a whole course I taught for a university in Warsaw.
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Past events
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