Bruno S. Frey suggests nine Proposals to refine future democratic processes. This paper unifies subsets of Frey’s Proposals. In doing so, certain Proposals are further supported while others are challenged. In addition, I suggest that our increased global reliance as well as advances in technology should force further changes to our democratic institutions.

‘Future Designers’ is an interactive and participative crash course that aims to introduce to children the concepts and practice of ‘creativity’, ‘design’, and ‘design thinking’. The course targets multiple learning styles and intelligences, combining various learning approaches and tools. The full course lasts 4-5 hours and can be delivered in a single or two sessions. Up to now, five pilot st...

The quality and the quantity of contextual information found in the descriptive metadata associated with digital representations of cultural objects are frequently inadequate for assuring that users will understand the nature of both the original object that has been digitally preserved, and the digital representation itself. This paper proposes and defines a framework for ensuring that relevan...

(2001). The aims and objectives of the Monitoring the Future study and progress toward fulfilling them as of 2001.