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The Nearby Future is a virtual gathering of people with ideas. People who can change the world with a simple but intelligent suggestion. Everything we do has a ripple effect, bad or good. If, let’s say, you put a really great outlook on cars in a comment box and people strongly agree with you, congratulations! You have just helped someone (or many someones) think outside the box with your writing.

You see, that’s what this site is all about. Saying, ‘here’s the general black-and-white idea of this’ and then showing you a different view. We’re all about figuring out the future, speculating on what will happen next.

So read what we have to say, form your opinion, and get out there and change this world before it’s too late.

-The Nearby Future Staff

The Staff Members

This site isn’t managed by just one person- it has a whole staff of writers who like to tell it like it is while informing the general population on things they may not see on the news.

Here are the pen names of those on our dedicated staff:

Rika: Opinionated and interested about technology, Rika writes mostly about computers, cell phones, and a bunch of articles here and there.

Calister F. Wells: The writer who argues nonstop with Rika, Calister F. Wells takes the opposite side on almost every debate. He’s for flying cars, Rika and Ashley Lampost are against it. He’s the sarcastic guy who loves a debate. He also runs a separate blog entitled “The Wells Mission”. Visit it here.

Jala: Jala loves books- she has them down to a science. She can come up with wild theories about the future of books that are hard to imagine now, but may actually happen.

Kendra: Kendra doesn’t write at all, except for her polls. Her polls are created to decipher some mysteries of the human mind.

Ashley Lampost:Ashley Lampost is a very thoughtful writer: she crams many, many ideas into her articles that get recognized from every which way.

Jennith: Jennith is against animal cruelty and is for the advancement of animal rights. She also writes a lot of articles about technology, and helps out by giving her view into debates.

Hope: Hope puts journalists to shame with her “attack-the-issue-from-all-sides” tactic. She presents accurate facts for all points of view and lets the reader decide what side they’re on. Like the rest of us, she ‘hopes’ for a better future!

The Piratical Lord of the Guitars: The Piratical Lord of the Guitars loves music- she can name the huge music stars in rapid fire succession. She’ll fight on the side of music producers and artists until the end.

Contributers:

These are the writers who aren’t officially on the staff. They are the people who write for us (and whose articles have to be approved) simply to write. Think of them as the editorial writers.

Socrates: writes philosophies

DarkPrinceofAwesome/Nero: *rolls eyes* that’s all I have to say.

Signing Up

Do you have some ideas about the future that you want to share? Then by all means share them! You don’t have to be limited to just commenting about our articles (although that IS a good way to learn more and get your ideas out there) you can write your own!

Just email Rika (rika at thenearbyfuture dot com) after signing up (just click the “Sign Up” button at the bottom left hand side of the screen) and she’ll promote you to a “Contributor”. As a contributor you can write articles about what you think, then they’ll be shown on the website! (All submitted articles might and probably will be edited for spelling, grammar, and inaccurate facts) Only the best articles will be chosen and allowed on the site.

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