I don’t know how many SlideShares deal with the future but in Prezi, a search with for that word lands me with more than 4500; I have been through a couple of hundreds of presentations on SlideShare – that is, I have visited them and sometimes just taken part of a tidbit; enough, however, to judge whether to venture to pass them on as contributing to future studies. Thus I have crossed out those that were concerned with just the next one, two, or three years, which I do not see as the future. That of course is debatable: in some fields, take mobile communications, three years might be the distant future, and four years just too far off for anything meaningful. On the other hand, given that nothing seems to age as badly as the future, I have restricted myself to presentations that are 3 years old or younger. The Future of Work is dealt with in several SlideShare presentations. This one, 90 slides, is by Andrea Saveri from Institute for the Future, June, 2008 (some ten new types of jobs are suggested, such as, e g, ecotect): http://www.slideshare.net/whatidiscover/the-future-of-work-presentation The Future of Technology is the subject of a treatise by three futurists from three Californian organizations, both from the business and the academic/organizational world: mostly IT and biotech. 22 slides, 2007: http://www.slideshare.net/lablogga/future-of-technology This is more of the immediate future, and the one of IT and the Web — a purportedly digital on. And a rich one to boot (a second section is advertised), 135 slides from Chemistry Communications Group (David Carr): http://www.slideshare.net/djc1805/2010-digital-trends-ideas-and-technologies-part-1 The future of science is much to do with science being data driven, collaborative (more than ever), and open (more than ever); the library taking on new appearances (Carole Goble, University of Manchester, 71 slides): http://www.slideshare.net/dullhunk/the-future-of-research-science-and-technology-presentation A rather compact presentation of how future studies may be carried out, demonstrated on IT and adjacent biology, i. e., DNA based systems. 25 slides from Melanie Swan of the MS Futures Group: http://www.slideshare.net/lablogga/futures-frameworks-simulation-2416875 This is a fact (and text) filled presentation of mobile trends, a subject very mobile (and popular too) in itself… It consists of 62 slides and has been produced by Rudy De Waele: http://www.slideshare.net/rudydw/mobile-trends-2020 Mary Meeker’s of Morgan Stanley yearly presentations on the future of Internet are nothing but instant classics (87 slides): http://www.slideshare.net/guest1222bdb/mary-meeker-april-2010-internet-trends In Prezi Adam Somlai-Fischer has made a fascinating rendering of a seminar on the future of e-mail (unfortunately I’ve not seen any way of counting the number of slides but doing so manually: too many!): http://prezi.com/a4rnnb7mclme/the-future-of-email/ Anthony Townsend of the Institute for the Future has produced a fascinating report on a project on future knowledge ecosystems: http://prezi.com/a2eragfozodi/iasp-2009-future-knowledge-ecosystems/ I have been through more than one hundred of the 4500 Prezi presentations obtained with the search term ‘future’ and they are for the most part are elegant but lacking in accompanying story. I adopted the principle of marginal utility and stopped when I found no more presentations meeting my criteria: stand-alone, sufficiently recent (many are meeting that one!), into the future, and not too limited in scope.