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July 2010 Futurist Update
Supercenentarians: Why 110 Is the New 100
Synthetic Antibodies Fight Bee Stings
Knowledge Sharing among Diplomats
Economics and Politics of Well-Being
Click of the Month: Nourishing the Planet
News for the Futurist Community
June 2010 Futurist Update
The Edward
Cornish Award for Futurist of the Year
FUTURIST Magazine Published in Turkish
Visions of Europe
Dator, Henderson, Coates Honored
2010 High-School Essay Contest Winner
Clicks of the Month: Futurist Reading List
Citizen-Scientists and the Future
May 2010 Futurist Update
IT Jobs Drive
U.S. Economic Engine
Fashion Faces Forward
Tech Prowess May Not Shorten Wars
State Prison Population Declines
Click of the Month: Mendeley Research Networks
News for the Futurist Community
What’s Hot @WFS.ORG
April 2010 Futurist Update
Networked Cars and
Trucks
Writing in (and about) the Future
Near-Earth Objects: Risks and Implications
Experts Consider the Internet’s Future
Click of the Month: Destination Imagination
News for the Futurist Community
What’s Hot @WFS.org
March 2010 Futurist Update
Ghana’s Promising Future
Loneliness in an Interconnected World
Preventive Care Could Save Trillions of Dollars
Specialists versus Generalists: Lessons from Figure Skating
Click of the Month: Weiner, Edrich, Brown, Inc.
News for the Futurist Community
February 2010 Futurist Update
Youth Summit
Builds Public-Service Campaign
Pollution Reduces Rain in China
U.S. States Scramble to Balance Budgets
Gloomy Mood May Doom the European Union
Click of the Month: Timeline of Education 1657-2045
News for the Futurist Community
What's Hot @WFS.ORG
January 2010 Futurist Update
Video Games and Impacts on Performance
Cases of Diabetes Will Double
Mobilizing the Millennials
Futurist's Reading List
Click of the Month: iMinds.com
News for the Futurist Community
What's Hot @WFS.ORG
December 2009 Futurist Update
Kilimanjaro May
Be Snowless in 20 Years
Fashioning a Solution for Female Workers
Women Reach Parity—As HIV/AIDS Victims
Click of the Month: Trends in Japan
News for the Futurist Community
What’s Hot @WFS.org
November 2009 Futurist Update
Materialism in
the Nonmaterial World
Fire-Resistant Building Material
Doctors’ Attitudes May Affect Obese Patients’ Health
Click of the Month: Trends Map
News for the Futurist Community
What’s Hot @WFS.org: Futurist of the Year Nominations
October 2009 Futurist Update
Early Spring Warning: Blooms Too Soon?
Artificial Intelligence Aids Diagnosis
Denmark Offers Educational “Green” Vacations
Click of the Month: Futurity
News for the Futurist Community
What's Hot @WFS.ORG
September 2009 Futurist Update
Healthy Sex Life Improves Career Prospects
Online Textbook Lightens Backpacks
Life Expectancy Increases in U.S.
Click of the Month: Live Ethical Quote
News for the Futurist Community
What's Hot @WFS.ORG: Back from the Future
August 2009 Futurist Update
Skills Gap Is Widening
The End May Be Near for Big Tobacco
The Millennium Project’s Latest Projects
Click of the Month: The World Mind Network
News for the Futurist Community
What's Hot @WFS.ORG: Back from the Future
July 2009 Futurist Update
Making Disasters Less
Disastrous
Earth Science Literacy
Rapid Virus Detection
Click of the Month: Engineer Your Life
News for the Futurist Community
What's Hot @WFS.ORG
June 2009 Futurist Update
Top 10 Long-Term
Challenges
Avatars That Look Like Us
Bright Prospects for Blue-Collar Careers
Living Life with Purpose
Click of the Month: Chicago 2016
What’s Hot @WFS.ORG
May 2009 Futurist Update
Increasing
Cooperation against Security Threats
Predicting Freight Traffic
Battles for Outer Space
Click of the Month: Emergency Care For You
News for the Futurist Community
What’s Hot
@WFS.ORG
April 2009 Futurist Update
Putting Professors
Back in the Classroom
Top Cities with Energy-Efficient Buildings
Reining in Local Government
Click of the Month: Economic Turning Point
News for the Futurist Community
What’s Hot @WFS.ORG
March 2009 FUTURIST UPDATE
Economic Rebound Forecast for 2010
Long-Term Benefits of Recession-Proofing Strategies
Alaska Youth Success Stories
Antarctica's Accelerated Warming
Click of the Month: TeacherTube
News for the Futurist Community
February 2009 FUTURIST UPDATE
Half of Planet May Face
Food Crisis
Yardstick for Measuring Health
Darwin and Lincoln Bicentennials
Click of the Month: International Year of Astronomy 2009
News for the Futurist Community
January 2009 FUTURIST UPDATE
Decarbonizing
Energy
Workplace Trend Watcher’s Advice
Oceanic “Lab on a Chip”
Cracking Down on Scientific Fraud
Click of the Month: eHow
Editor's Query: Wild Cards
DECEMBER
2008 FUTURIST UPDATE
Drug Therapy Could
Benefit Frail Elderly
Recession-Proofing Your Career
How the Environment May Benefit from Financial Crisis
Click of the Month: Guy Yeomans's London Futures Symposium Coverage
News from
the Futurist Community
NOVEMBER 2008 FUTURIST UPDATE
Energy as
Currency
Prisoners Turn a New Leaf
Global Economy: "Strong" Recovery Forecast for 2011
Tips for Helping Workers Cope
Click of the Month: Tim Prosser, Scrimping on Energy
News from the Futurist Community
OCTOBER
2008 FUTURIST UPDATE
Predicting Future
Happiness
Gaming for Forecasters
Growing Demand for Cosmetic Surgery Products
Picking the Next U.S. President
Click of the Month: CNET Editor's Office
SEPTEMBER 2008 FUTURIST UPDATE
Measles Makes a
Comeback
Synthetic Fuels for Combat Aircraft
Exercises to Prevent Dyslexia
Sign Language for Cell Phones
Click of the Month: Office of Digital Humanities
News from the World Future Society
AUGUST 2008 FUTURIST UPDATE
China's Economy to Surpass
U.S.
European Water Wasters
More Research, Less Knowledge?
Click of the Month: Fauxtography
News from the Futurist Community
JULY 2008 FUTURIST UPDATE
World Population
to Hit 7 Billion
Future of the Internet Economy
A Business Guide to Climate Change
Feeling Fat vs. Being Fat
Click of the Month: How You Lead
JUNE 2008 FUTURIST UPDATE
Soccer-Playing
Nanobots
Returning Jail Inmates to Society
Great Salt Lake Laboratory
Click of the Month: Keck Futures Initiative
What’s Next in THE FUTURIST
MAY 2008 FUTURIST UPDATE
New Nanotech
Products Hit the Market
Will Super-Bugs Outlast Us?
Solar Energy May Be Competitive in 10 Years
Bridging the Digital Divide
Editor's Query: Why Are You Here?
Click of the Month: Health Care Innovations Exchange
News from the Futurist Community
APRIL 2008 FUTURIST UPDATE
Top Priorities
for Manufacturing
Hurricane Damage Increasingly Costly
Resurgence of Anti-Semitism
Extraterrestrial Chemistry
Click of the Month: Institute for Emerging Issues
News from the Futurist Community
MARCH 2008 FUTURIST UPDATE
Recession-Proof
Industries
Infertility May become Common
Engineering's Grand Challenges
Goal-Driven Toddlers
News from the Futurist Community
News from the World Future Society
FEBRUARY 2008
FUTURIST UPDATE
Bionic Eyes
Cosmic Collision Ahead
U.S. Failing to Prevent Preventable Deaths
Clicks of the Month: Futurists Go to the Movies
News from the Futurist Community
JANUARY 2008
FUTURIST UPDATE
Robots
for Handicapped Babies
Do Fish Farms Imperil Wild Salmon?
Trends in Consumer Behavior
Click of the
Month: Legacy Letter Project
News from the
Futurist Community
DECEMBER 2007
FUTURIST UPDATE
Laws Governing the Heavens
Ethnicity and Alzheimer's Disease
Risk Assessment: Emotion Trumps Logic
Boom in the Baltics
Click of the Month: Monkey News
News from the Futurist Community
NOVEMBER 2007 FUTURIST
UPDATE
Building Better
Embassies
Progress against Global Hunger
Tracking Strategic Minerals
Click of the Month: SciVee TV
News from the Futurist Community
OCTOBER 2007
FUTURIST UPDATE
Digital Generation Is Losing Its Heritage
Pollution and Pigs in China
Predicting Success, I: Creativity in Youth
Predicting Success, II: Executive Skills
Click of the Month: italki.com
News from the Futurist Community
SEPTEMBER 2007
FUTURIST UPDATE
Religious Writing
Goes Wiki
Less-Invasive Medical Testing on the Horizon
Flood Forecasters Use People Power
Wired Politics in Muslim Countries
Click of the Month: Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
News from the Futurist Community
AUGUST 2007 FUTURIST UPDATE EXTRA
Fostering Hope and Vision Amid Crisis and Tragedy
World Future Society Benefits from GoodSearch
2008 Conference to be Held in Washington, D.C.
AUGUST 2007 FUTURIST UPDATE
Water and Life Outside Our Solar System
Artists Offer Unique View of Climate Change
Sweden Ranked "Most-Responsible" Nation
Should Government Pay for Couples Therapy?
Click of the Month: Top Ten Now Playing
Sea Levels to Rise Faster Than Expected
JULY 2007 FUTURIST UPDATE
China Tops in
CO2 Emissions
The Virtual Philanthropist
Are Good Decision Makers Born or Made?
Investing in Ecosystems
Click of the Month: By Kids For Kids
JUNE 2007 FUTURIST UPDATE
Earth's Virtual World
The Strategic Value of Hope
Risk Taking and Teens
Rachel's Eagles
Click of the Month: MySpace Impact
News from the Futurist Community
MAY 2007 FUTURIST UPDATE
Second Thoughts on Wikis
Citizen Media
Deep-Sea Observatory Under Construction
Click of the Month: Invent Now
News from the Futurist Community
APRIL 2007 FUTURIST UPDATE
Wealth Explosion for the United Kingdom
Threat of Water Scarcity Worsens
Female CEOs on the Rise
Machine Intelligence for Health-Care Decisions
Click of the Month: Europe in 2020 (video)
News from the Futurist Community
MARCH 2007 FUTURIST UPDATE
Becoming an
Expert on Expertise
Bandages
Made from Bacteria?
Global
Warming Will Bring More Droughts
Syphilis
Epidemic Warning for China
Click of the
Month: Ethical Markets
News from
the Futurist Community
FEBRUARY 2007 FUTURIST UPDATE
Social Networking by Cell Phone
Overcoming the "Experience Deficit"
Urban Farming
Strategic Reading
Click of the Month: GuruLib
News from the Futurist Community
JANUARY 2007 FUTURIST UPDATE
Money and Disaster
A Global Land Squeeze
Obesity May Bankrupt Health Systems
Tips for Scenario Writers
Click of the Month: Competitive Futures Blog
News from the Futurist Community
DECEMBER 2006 FUTURIST UPDATE
Clay's
Power to Heal
Personalized
Advertising
Will Tiger
Farming Save the Tigers?
Click of
the Month: How to Build a Futures Institute
News
from the Futurist Community
NOVEMBER 2006 FUTURIST UPDATE
Business Sees Carbon as Risk and Opportunity
Designing Better Babies
Wetter Winters Coming in Northwest U.S.
FTC Launches Technology Blog
Click of the Month: GoodSearch
News from the Futurist Community
OCTOBER 2006 FUTURIST UPDATE
Speeding Up Computers by Cooling Them
Down
Detecting Liars' Mental Overload
Forests Disappearing in North Carolina
Obesity May Accelerate "Old-Age" Disease
Click of the Month: Global Voices Online
News from the Futurist Community
SEPTEMBER 2006 FUTURIST UPDATE
Infant Obesity
Joke-Making
Software Beats Language Barriers
Traffic School
without the Traffic
The Roar of the
Oceans
Click of the Month: DropShots for Family Networking
News from the
Futurist Community
AUGUST 2006 FUTURIST UPDATE
Making Companion Robots More Companionable
Pollution, Clouds, and Climate Change
Zimbabwe Faces De-Urbanization
Asian-American Trend Setters
Click of the Month: WorldFuture 2006 Highlights
JULY 2006 FUTURIST UPDATE
Social Skills for Robots
Climate Change May Spare Asia
Listening for Landslides
Retirement Community for Gays
Click of the Month: Multi-Touch Interaction Experiments (videos)
News from the Futurist Community
JUNE 2006 FUTURIST UPDATE
Largest Human Chromosome Is Mapped
Political Activists and the Internet
Green Engineering
Virtual Reality to Treat Hallucinations
Inventions of the Year
Click of the Month: Career Voyages
News from the Futurist Community
MAY 2006 FUTURIST UPDATE
Digital Fingerprinting to Trace Child Pornographers
Telecommuters Still Need to Travel
Music Therapy 1: A Song for Your Pain
Music Therapy 2: Rhythm Treatment
Click of the Month: Enterprise Poetry
News from the Futurist Community
APRIL 2006 FUTURIST UPDATE
Computer Models for Faster Decision Making
No Doctor Shortage?
Clicks of the Month: Trend Trackers and Fad Hunters
News from the Futurist Community
MARCH 2006 FUTURIST UPDATE
Predicting Malaria Outbreaks
Robots Improve Surgery
Healthier Neighborhoods
Climate Change and Energy Choices
Click of the Month: Child Trends Databank
News from the Futurist Community
FEBRUARY
2006 FUTURIST UPDATE
Climate Change Triggers Killer Fungus
Psychologists and the Stock Market
Shorter Life Spans for Tech Products
Better Bodies and Brains, and a Booth to Cuddle In
Click of the Month: Ask Philosophers
News from the Futurist Community
JANUARY 2006
FUTURIST UPDATE
"Positive Addictions" May
Prevent Violence
Mercury Warning
Literacy in Cities
Sniffing Out Diamonds
Click of the Month: I Was Wondering
Baby Boomers Hit 60
DECEMBER
2005 FUTURIST UPDATE
Online Learning Increases in U.S.
No-Till Farming and Greenhouse Gases
Dentists vs. Heart Disease
Drug and Chemical Industries Grow in India
Click of the Month: Future Brief
NOVEMBER
2005 FUTURIST UPDATE
More-Fertile Forests Can Fight Greenhouse Effect
Phone Counseling Proves Effective
Ethics Education at Business Schools
New R&D Needed for Neglected Diseases
U.S. Special Forces Train in "Adaptive Thinking"
Click of the Month: Center for the Future
News from the Futurist Community
OCTOBER
2005 FUTURIST UPDATE
Global Hurricanes--Fewer but Stronger
Nabbing Cyberstalkers
Neuro Pacemaker Fights Depression
New and Noteworthy Books
Click of the Month: Now and Next's Top Trends
News from the Futurist Community
SEPTEMBER
2005 FUTURIST UPDATE
Builders Wanted
Bird Mapping
Solving the Wastepaper Problem
Britain's Religious Generation Gap
Click of the Month: The Role Model Program
AUGUST
2005 FUTURIST UPDATE
Wilderness and Cell Phones
Noise and Language Development
"Robust" U.S. Economic Growth Foreseen for Next Three Years
Making Literacy Meaningful
Click of the Month: New American Dream
Signs of Resilience of the Human Spirit
News from WFS Partners and the Futures Community
JULY
2005 FUTURIST UPDATE
NASA Spacecraft to Intersect with Comet
E-Shoppers Fear Identity Theft
Water Technology Research Center
Stem Cells from Skin
Antarctic Car
Click of the Month: Infonation
JUNE
2005 FUTURIST UPDATE
Global Warming Pushes Fish Northward
Laptop Doctors
Challenges to Debt Relief
Click of the Month: Wilson Center Foresight and Governance Project
Ageless Aging--And Other Previews from THE FUTURIST
WFS and the Digital Revolution
MAY 2005 FUTURIST
UPDATE
Super-Eruptions Could Be Cataclysmic
Video Games Alleviate Children's Pain
Earlier Puberty Raises Concern
Retiree Benefits at Risk
Click of the Month: Science Fiction Hub
News from WFS Partners and the Futures Community
APRIL
2005 FUTURIST UPDATE
Rural Areas as Terrorist Targets?
China's Car Boom
Obesity May Shorten U.S. Life Expectancy
Click of the Month: Questions and Answers about the Future
News from WFS Partners and the Futures Community
MARCH
2005 FUTURIST UPDATE
See Your Future Self in a Virtual Mirror
Jobs Boom Foreseen in Solar Industries
Indo-Australian Tectonic Plate at Risk
Promoting Arts Appreciation
Click of the Month: Climate Prediction
News from the Futures Community
FEBRUARY
2005 FUTURIST UPDATE
Best Recent Books about the Future
Three Ways to Popularize Science
Play More Attention
Click of the Month: Tod Maffin's FutureFile
News from WFS Partners and the Futures Community
JANUARY
2005 FUTURIST UPDATE
Lessons from Indonesian Disaster
The Importance of Preschool
Developing World Influences Infotech
Americans Feel Less Alienated
Food Forecasts for 2005
Click of the Month: The SCOTS Project
DECEMBER
2004 FUTURIST UPDATE
Five Technologies to Watch in 2005
U.S. Kids Increase Study Time
Ozone-Related Deaths Projected to Increase
Futurist W. Warren Wagar Dies
Click of the Month: Integrative Spirituality
News from WFS Partners and the Futures Community
NOVEMBER 2004
FUTURIST UPDATE
Politics Could Be Good for Children's Health
Business Shirks Crisis Planning
Reducing Allergies
Saving the Bumblebee
Click of the Month: The Innovate Gateway
News from WFS Partners and the Futures Community
OCTOBER 2004 FUTURIST UPDATE
Predicting Innovations
Homeschools as Solution to Violence?
Beware of Happy Workers
Cultural Revolution Needed for Foresight
Click of the Month: FutureLife
SEPTEMBER 2004 FUTURIST UPDATE
Feedback
Robotic Note-Taking
Dead Zone Threatens Marine Life
Lowering the Costs of Alternative Fuels
Virtual Clay
Click of the Month: Plausible Futures Newsletter
AUGUST 2004 FUTURIST UPDATE EXTRA
Back from the Future
2005 Conference to be Held in Chicago
Alliance Formed with Global SchoolNet
AUGUST 2004 FUTURIST UPDATE
Longer Lives--More Hospital Admissions
Carbon Dioxide Altering Ocean Chemistry
Will Europe's Dreams Surpass the American Dream?
Futurists and Policy Studies
Thought Control for Video Games
Click of the Month: Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
JULY 2004 FUTURIST UPDATE
Cities Expected to Feel the Heat
Dieting and Longevity
Stroke Patients Benefit from Virtual Reality
"Generation X-tra"
Education Forum Call for Essays
Click of the Month: Retro Future
JUNE
2004 FUTURIST UPDATE
Tools for Battling Terrorists
Children's Head Injuries Cause Long-Term Problems
Microscopic Plastic Pollutes Oceans
Preview Forecasts from THE FUTURIST
Click of the Month: Word Spy
WFS Announces New President
MAY
2004 FUTURIST UPDATE
Online Laundry
Ear Printing Fingers Criminals
Wind Scrubbing Combats Global Warming
Bad Knees? Nanotech Offers Hope
Reading List for Conference Goers
Click of the Month: DaVinci Institute
APRIL 2004 FUTURIST UPDATE.
"Century
City" Dramatizes Future Issues
The Future as Seen from the Past
Superfoods for High-Tech Foragers
Depopulating Russia
Stomach Cancer Declines in Europe
Click of the Month: Futuring
MARCH 2004 FUTURIST UPDATE.
Internet Gender Gap Persists
Beyond Same-Sex Marriage
Climate Warming and Deforestation
Changing Diet Linked to Depression
Click of the Month: The Future of Work
Impacts of Breakthrough Technologies
FEBRUARY 2004 FUTURIST UPDATE.
• To E-Vote or Not to E-Vote?
• Top 10 Skills for the Future
• Best Future Books of 2003
• Comeback for Great Apes
• Click of the Month: Future Now
JANUARY 2004 FUTURIST UPDATE.
• Environmentally Friendly Food from Biotech
• Mathematicians Tackle Global Problems
• Lowered Expectations for World Population
• Clicks of the Month: Celebrating a Century of Flight
• Futurism Lives
DECEMBER 2003 FUTURIST UPDATE.
* Fox Addresses Mexican Chapter Conference
* Famous Robots
* Urban Planning vs. Obesity
* Click of the Month: NESTA: The Creative Investor
* Nurturing Global Skills
* Words from the President
NOVEMBER 2003 FUTURIST UPDATE.
* More Women Approach Middle Age Childless
* Why Some Surprises Are Inevitable
* Scholars for the Longer-Range Future
* Pollution-Fighting Microbe
* Click of the Month: Digital Schoolhouse
* Clay Aiken's Adventures in Futuring
OCTOBER 2003 FUTURIST UPDATE.
* The Marriage of Biology and Math
* Zapping Infotech Problems
* Big Futures for Solo Businesses
* Traffic Accidents Kill More than a Million a Year
* Dramatic Financial Problems for Theaters
* Click of the Month: Atlas of Cyberspace
SEPTEMBER 2003 FUTURIST UPDATE. Feedback
* Robots with Consciousness
* Battling the Bullies
* Futurism vs. Terrorism
* Climate Change and Farming
* Click of the Month: Declaration of Interdependence
* Passionate Problem Solving
AUGUST 2003 FUTURIST UPDATE.
* Internet Research Skills Lacking
* Investing against Terrorism
* Click of the Month: Institute of Ideas
* Reasons Not to Switch to Hydrogen-Fueled Cars
* New Tools for Asteroid Hunters
* World's Fastest Futurist
JULY 2003 FUTURIST UPDATE.
* Man-Machine Merger
* Chaos Theory and Alcoholism
* Beware of Cats
* Click of the Month: Forecasting Dictionary
* Doug Michels
JUNE 2003 FUTURIST UPDATE.
* Side Effects of Battling Terrorism
* Deadlier Earthquakes
* Bike-Friendly Cities
* Looming Labor Shortages
* America's Immigration Cities
* Click of the Month: Glossarist.com
MAY 2003 FUTURIST UPDATE. Feedback
* Hand Signals for Intelligent Environments
* Online Writing: Developing a New Art Form
* Nuclear Power: Peak or Plateau?
* Click of the Month: Population DataFinder
* Chapter Spotlight: National Capital Region
* Really Smart Clothes
APRIL 2003 FUTURIST UPDATE. Feedback
* Antiterrorist Spray
* Foresight Project Takes on Cyber Crime
* Building Virtual Planets
* Ideas for Making the World a Better Place
* The Future of Beauty
* Click of the Month: Police Futurists InternationalMARCH 2003 FUTURIST UPDATE. Feedback
* Software That Writes Software
* Mediterranean Diet May Relieve Arthritis
* Tidal Turbines vs. Wind Farms
* Happy Talk Makes Happy Folk
* A Forecaster Looks Back at the Future
* Click of the Month: Horizon
FEBRUARY 2003 FUTURIST UPDATE. Feedback
* Computers in Churches and Laundries?
* Docking with Electromagnets
* NeuroFeedback and Memory
* Envisioning Better Cities: Data Mapping
* Envisioning Better Cities: Utopian Perspectives
* Click of the Month: RegRadar
JANUARY 2003 FUTURIST UPDATE. Feedback
* Nanoparticles May Make Ships Dolphin-Sleek
* Good News and Bad News for People Who Care
* Word Watch: Predicting New Words
* Cures Sought for Political Apathy
* Click of the Month: Minnesota FuturistsDECEMBER 2002 FUTURIST UPDATE. Feedback
* Future-Writing Competition
* Japan's Centenarian Boom
* Future Generations Forum
* "Leisure Sickness" in the Netherlands
* Long-Term Impacts of Oil Spills
* Click of the Month: CensusScope
* Protecting Indigenous Peoples
* Nanotech Expert Drexler Will Speak at WorldFuture 2003
NOVEMBER 2002 FUTURIST UPDATE. Feedback
* One Man vs. a Community
* Advantages of Text-Based Computer Games
* Overcoming Organizational Stupidity
* Measuring Progress toward Sustainability
* Word Watch: The End of "Aging"?
* Click of the Month: RobotsLife
* Are Computers Now Smart Enough to Be Offended?
OCTOBER 2002 FUTURIST UPDATE. Feedback
* Planning for Carlessness
* A 12-Step Program for a Kinder World
* Update on Wearable Computers Survey
* Click of the Month: Statistical Assessment Service
* Stafford BeerSEPTEMBER 2002 FUTURIST UPDATE. Feedback
* Electric Trucks May Charge Ahead * Debating Spirituality of Machines
* Business Schools and Ethics * Satellite Images Show Changes in Ocean Food Supply * Remarriage Declines * Click of the Month: Immortalizer TechnologiesAUGUST 2002 FUTURIST UPDATE. Feedback
* Report from WorldView 2002 * Jellyfish Forecast * Transporting Nuclear Waste
* AIDS Will Shorten Life Expectancy Worldwide * Guidebook for Earth Summit 2002
* Tomatoes vs. Mosquitoes * Click of the Month: Long Bets * When Forecasts CollideJULY 2002 FUTURIST UPDATE.
* Implantable Artificial Lung * How Wearable Are Wearable Computers? * Air Pollution Blamed for Drought * Click of the Month: Game On at the Barbican Gallery * Tips for Trend Spotters * More Futurist Books * Cyber-SniffingJUNE 2002 FUTURIST UPDATE. Feedback
* Flash Reading * Limitless Life Expectancy? * Anti-Antiaging Hype * Summer Reading for Futurists * Clicks of the Month: Atlas Updates, Chiefs of StateMAY 2002 FUTURIST UPDATE. :
* Virtual Courses Lag Behind Live Classes * From Brain Drain to "Brain Circulation" * World's Largest Turtle May Face Extinction * Word Watch: Beware the Enroned Blamestormer * Click of the Month: GW Forecast * George Lucas's Resources for Teachers * Will Orchestras Survive?APRIL 2002 FUTURIST UPDATE. : Feedback
* Ethics of the Future * Playtime Healing * How Gene Sequencing Will Change Everything * Faster Detection of Tainted Food * Virtual Reality for Virtual Court
* Click of the Month: American Planning Association * World Classroom Loses a Great Teacher FuturesMARCH 2002 FUTURIST UPDATE. :
* Futures Scholarship Offered * "Future Check" for Organizations * Enron Debacle May Boost Corporate Ethics Programs * Recycling Computers * AIDS Increases among Elderly * Immortality Discussion Continues at WorldView 2002 * Click of the Month: What Are the Odds of Dying? * New Book Offers Overview of Life in the Future
FEBRUARY 2002 FUTURIST UPDATE. : Feedback
* Call for Technological Literacy * Visible Security * Survival of the Cutest
* Poverty or Affluence: What Are Your Odds? * Health and Medicine Forecasts
* Click of the Month: Earth Policy Institute * "Meritocracy" Scenario Author Dies
JANUARY 2002 FUTURIST UPDATE. :
* Hot Jobs for 2002 * Sudden Climate Change * Hospitals as Early-Warning Systems * Medicinal Bacteria * What Makes a Society Succeed? * Click of the Month: Database of World Problems * Spotlight on Scenario Planning
DECEMBER 2001 FUTURIST UPDATE. : Feedback
* Immortality: Pro and Con * Energy without Generators * RAND Will Look Farther Ahead * Click of the Month: Space for Species * Wagar, Wells, and the Future
* Questions from a New MemberNOVEMBER 2001 FUTURIST UPDATE. :
* The Networked War * Fear and the Brain * Glenn Seaborg's Atomic Adventures
* Plant Scientists Battle Foreign Diseases * Power Tube Taps Geothermal Energy
* Click of the Month: Climate Prediction Center
OCTOBER 2001 FUTURIST UPDATE. :
* Terrorist Attack Refocuses Futurists * Robotic Parking * New Economy Workplace Redefines Time * Click of the Month: The Franklin Institute Online * Macroshift
* Searching FUTURIST Articles
SEPTEMBER 2001 FUTURIST UPDATE. :
* Reviving the Office of Technology Assessment * The Future in Spanish * Dialogue on Planetary Ethics * Click of the Month: Bad Fads Museum * Wearable Communications * How Futuristic Are You? * 20 Years at THE FUTURIST
AUGUST 2001 FUTURIST UPDATE. :
* Recession? We're Certain We're Uncertain * Capitalism's Darker Side * Click of the Month: VolunteerMatch * 12 Ways to Save the World * Word Watch: Expanding by Contracting * Reasons to Pay Attention to Trends
JUlY 2001 FUTURIST UPDATE. :
* Human Identity in the Longer-Range Future * "Affluenza": What Ails the Wealthy * Happiness and Life Extension * 2002 Conference Theme Announced
* Click of the Month: Learn2.com * Contest: Reasons for Paying Attention to Trends * Nicholas Albery
JUNE 2001 FUTURIST UPDATE. :
* Foresight in Government * The Hottest Thing in Electronics? * Small Business Futures in Peril * Top 10 21st-Century Futures * Joe Coates Leaves Coates & Jarratt * Click of the Month: Health Hoaxes and Rumors * Coming Up in the July-August FUTURIST * Notably Quoted
MAY 2001 FUTURIST UPDATE. :
* Teens Wanted * B2B's Bright Future * Engineers Seek New Image * Click of the Month: Gallery of Obscure Patents * Robert Barner on Planning with a Team * Fire- and Germ-Fighting Clothes * 100 Reasons Americans Should Be Happy * Futurist Reader Panel to Meet in Minneapolis
APRIL 2001 FUTURIST UPDATE. :
* Playing the Market *Self-healing Materials* E-Book Asks, "Then What?" * India's Future After the Earthquake * Lester Brown's New Venture * Dr. Tomorrow's Cruise * FUTURIST Forecasts
MARCH 2001 FUTURIST UPDATE. :
* Public-Opinion Investing * Downsized Execs May Hit the Road * Nano News * Target: Breast Cancer * Product Design for the 21st Century * Utopia Book Appeals to Visionaries
* Feedback: Disappointed in 21st Century Already? * In Memoriam: Donella MeadowsFEBRUARY 2001 FUTURIST UPDATE. :
* Baby Boomers Face Up to Aging * Talk to the Futurists * Feeling Cheated About the Future? * Future Wisdom * Survey Results * Forecasts in the Next FUTURIST * Correction: The Origin of Scotch TapeJANUARY 2001 FUTURIST UPDATE. :
* A Brief Look at the Future of the Internet * Freelancing in Cyberspace * Multitasking Housewares and Gourmet Lollipops * Minneapolis--A Futurist's Workplace-Playground * Feedback: On Intellectual Piracy
DECEMBER 2000 FUTURIST UPDATE. :
* Piracy's Big-Business Victims * New Forum on the Web: Methodologies * Virtual Teams, Version 2.0 * Technologies from Space * Chapter Spotlight: Mexico * FUTURIST Available Digitally * What's Next in THE FUTURISTNOVEMBER 2000 FUTURIST UPDATE. :
* Arctic May Ease Impact of Global Warming * You're Hired--Now Stay Home * Think Tanks and Civil Societies * Ending War: A Brief Trend Analysis * Society Forms Electronic Frontiers CommitteeOCTOBER 2000 FUTURIST UPDATE. :
* Attention E-Commerce Investors * More Futurist Movies * Business Webs * Position Available: Strategic Planning Director * Nurturing Knowledge * Book Reviews Now Posted Online * What's Next in THE FUTURISTSEPTEMBER 2000 FUTURIST UPDATE. :
* Instant Offices * Eat Less for a Healthier Brain * 2001 Conference in Minneapolis
* African Americans Voting More * Futurists at the MoviesAUGUST 2000 FUTURIST UPDATE. :
* Utopias on Exhibit * New Choices for Having Children * Experts Forecast Genetic Discrimination * Internet Sex-Seekers at Risk * Humans Evolving Toward "Media-Peds"?
JULY 2000 FUTURIST UPDATE. :
* Virtual Personnel * Living in Multiple Cultures * Communication Vs. Consumption on the Internet * A Faster Trip to Mars * Mitchell Prize Creator to Receive Award
June 2000 FUTURIST UPDATE. :
* The Post-PC World * Net Overtaking Newspaper Classifieds * Ethical Engineering * Globalization: For Better or For Worse? * Potatoes in SpaceMay 2000 Futurist Update. :
* Fast-Growing Salmon May Be First GM Food Animal * Noted Futurist Proposes Commission on the Future * Cleaning Up Cockroaches * A Drill for the Future * New Books By Futurists * Comet Mission Gets Green LightApril 2000 Futurist Update. :
* The Internet vs. Life * A Nine-Day Week? * Replacing Needles With Ultrasound * Daughters Wanted * Globalization's Environmental Impact * World Future Society NewsMarch 2000 Futurist Update. :
* Career Opportunities for the Third Millennium * More Sensible Solar Energy * Fighting Future Genetic Discrimination * On Sustainability and the Quality of Life * World Future Society NewsFebruary 2000 Futurist Update. :
* Cyber Criminals May Have to Dodge "LawNet" * A Move Toward Traditional Families? * TV Dishes Search for ET * Self-Service Government * World Future Society NewsJanuary 2000 Futurist Update. DEBUT ISSUE.
* A Clone by 2020? * Forecasts from Sir Arthur C. Clarke * Government Cautions About E-Health Sites * Transgenic Goats May Produce Spider Silk * The Next 20 Years in Technology * World Future Society News
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