The World Future Society hosted its 1997 Annual Conference at the Hyatt Regency in Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, California, on July 17-19, 1997. More than 900 participants attended. Conference chairman was William Tafoya, founder of the Society of Police Futurists International.
The theme of the meeting was TrendWatch: Technology, Society, and Values. The meeting addressed the interplay among three of the main change drivers in the present and the future—technology, society, and values—and the implications for persons seeking to thrive—not just survive—in this period of often turbulent change.
Current Trends and Sustainability Track
Thursday, July 17, 1997
9:00-11:00 p.m.
OVERVIEW: What do we know about achieving sustainability and what trends are influencing our decisions? Questions to be considered are how can we determine the carrying capacity of the earth, assuming human beings collaborate; what is the time scale in which we need to act; where should decisions be made: locally, regionally, nationally, in groupings of nation-states or globally; what approaches to decision making will be effective; what do we need to learn in order to create sustainable societies?
