Raymond Spencer Rodgers (1935–2007) was a British-born American educator and futurist who spent most of his adult life in Canada.
Born in 1935, Rodgers held a master's degree in International Affairs and a doctorate in Public Law and Government from Columbia University.
Rodgers called for closer ties between south Louisiana and French Canada, and was appointed by Louisiana governor John McKeithen to map out the Quebec-Louisiana Cultural Agreement, which arranged for artistic, educational, and economic exchanges between the two regions.
In this essay he described the emergence of an "electronic web" and observed, "The future system is a global society, expressing a kaleidoscope of tastes within a common ethic, eschewing imposition serviced by a multi-directional web of computerized electronic technology and macro/micro transportation; living in a milieu where centers cease to be primarily physical locations; governed by a structure passing to decentralized unity; and unfolding as a transcendental organism dialectically both collectivist and individualistic in capacity.
"[3] Among Rodgers' other futurist works was an essay on "transcending the food cycle" in which, according to one author, "He suggested that humanity - perhaps more 'easily' in the future on locations other than the surface of Earth — deliberately seek to transcend the food chain and directly manufacture nutrition from inert materials, for meta-ethical reasons."
"[4] In his later years, Rodgers served as president of Vancouver University Worldwide[5] — described on its web site as "a consortium of globally located public and private institutions"[6] — which in 2007 was ordered by the British Columbia Supreme Court "to stop granting degrees in B.C."