Foundation for the future
Sesh Velamoor is a native of Hyderabad, India, but he now lives in the US. As a director of the Foundation for the Future, he oversees seminars and programmes aimed not at predicting the future, but at creating an arena for discussion about the future. The foundation holds yearly seminars, Humanity 3000, that are intended to go on until the year 3000, and to discuss the state of humanity. It also awards the Kistler Prize and the Kistler Book Prize for research the relates the genome to society. (Among the recipients are Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins).
On the Foundation's website, the interested will find an enormous amount of material from both Humanity 3000-seminars and other interesting seminars touch on future issues. Kistler is also invoved in private space travel and really stands out as an engaged citizen when it comes to future studies.
I will try to write more about the FoF soon.