Commissioned writing

We accept commissions for informal articles and formal reports on almost any aspect of the future. Our futurologist Ian Pearson has written award-winning papers on many futures topics for professional journals, white papers, and numerous other articles for newspapers, magazines and the web.

The following articles by Ian Pearson are provided free of charge to help you think through the future. Many more of his articles are available at his own site. Of course, our commercial commissions do not appear in this section.

The Futurizon Guide to the Future

All of the current articles are authored by Ian Pearson who has his own Pearson Guide to the Future, which archives all of his public output until Dec 2007, but we will extend our authorship list over time. If you would like to offer an article, contact us. We can only host articles that comply with our own policies. Articles are posted here in a sometimes unpolished form and simply sorted alphabetically, though their publication date is listed. Titles are mostly self explanatory.

All of the documents on this site are free to download for your personal use, though you must ask permission before reproducing or distributing them in any form. If you like what you read and are interested in commissioning an article or report, or getting our authors to speak at an event, or provide any form of consultancy, please contact us for more information. We will be happy to discuss prices and availability without commitment. The articles here are essentially funded by other commercial commissions.

Advertising, Mar 2008

Ageing, Jan 2008

Bicycles, Jun 2007

Carbon: CO₂ reduction via technology, Feb 2008

East of England, Dec 2006

Futurology – how to become a futurologist, Feb 2008

IT Convergence, Nov 2006

Legal IT environment, Sep 2006

Life (future forms of life), Jan 2008

Overview of the future, Feb 2008

Pubs, Apr 2007

Virtual economy, Aug 2007

Wireless Life in 2020, Sep 2006

Women and recruitment, Jan 2008

Women in Business, Apr 2007

New book: ICT Futures, by Paul Warren, John Davies, Dave Brown, Hardback, 224 pages, April 2008

ISBN10: 0470997702, ISBN13: 9780470997703. Final chapter: “Over the Horizon” by Ian Pearson

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