The HRCFS sponsors a Futures
Discussion Group which meets
occasionally with participants from the University, local
government, and members of the business and general
communities, to consider a wide range of futures issues.
Local and visiting experts give frequent colloquia on
futures-related topics, such as the Y2K problem, emerging
reproductive technologies, virtual reality and political
participation, evolutionary systems theory, a future North
American monarchy, and many more. The Center also publishes (both in paper
and online) a series of occasional papers, The
Manoa Journal of Fried and Half-Fried Ideas (about the
future...), which often include
papers presented to the Futures Discussion Group, research
papers written by members of the Alternative Futures Option,
or other previously unpublished papers which the Center
receives or solicits. The Center maintains a Futures Resource
Room (Social Science Building, Room 718) in which can be
found current and back copies of all of the major futures
journals in English -- Futures, The WFSF Bulletin, The
Futurist, Future Survey, Technological Forecasting and
Social Change, Futures Research Quarterly -- as well as a
wide selection of other futures-oriented journals, books,
articles, and videos. The Futures Resource Room also has one
of the richest collection of papers concerning the history
of futures studies, especially events leading up to the
founding of the World Futures Studies Federation and
subsequently which will eventually become part of the
Futures Archives in Hamilton Library Annex.