Futurizing Business Education

by Paul Bracken [professor of management, Yale School of Management]

            SUMMARY: A futurist and business educator shows how the use of scenarios and future-oriented case studies can help students learn how to spot opportunities in a turbulent world.

 

The 21st-Century Writer

by Patrick Tucker [senior editor, THE FUTURIST; communications director, WFS]

            SUMMARY: The Internet is forcing traditional print publishers to innovate or perish. The same might be true of the written word itself. FUTURIST senior editor Tucker interviews some of the leading thinkers on how future authors and publishers need to adapt, including publishing magnate and tech guru Tim O’Reilly, publishing executives Sara Domville (F+W) and Sonia Nash (Random House), digital-book distributor Frank Daniels of Ingram, best-selling author Douglas Rushkoff, and others.

 

Consumer Trends in Three Different "Worlds" (Part One)

by Andy Hines [director of custom projects, Social Technologies]

            SUMMARY: The first of two articles explores 10 of the major trends affecting consumers (aging, migration, changing family structures, population growth, urbanization, the rise of Asia, increasing consumerism, middle-class growth, increasing time pressures, and personal outsourcing). As well, Hines explores business implications and how the trends vary in the three "worlds"--the more affluent W1 (world one) nations, the majority in the middle W2 emerging economies, and the struggling W3 economies in dire straits.

 

Cybercrime in the Year 2025

by Gene Stephens

            SUMMARY: A criminal-justice scholar speculates on the potential impacts of rapidly changing technologies on the future of both crime and crime fighting. Could cyberstalkers unleash mind-altering nanobots into your brain? Or send them out onto the Web to do as-yet-unimagined mischief? While proposals to police the Web are met with cries of unnecessary restrictions, leaving the world of technology with nobody in charge could leave everyone at risk. Balancing the values of security and civil liberty will become ever more challenging to future law enforcement.

 

Tribute Sir Arthur C. Clarke

by José Luis Cordeiro [co-founder, Venezuelan Transhumanist Association; chair, Venezuela Node, the Millennium Project]

            SUMMARY: In an intimate and affectionate recounting of his meetings with the late, great science-fiction and science writer, futurist and transhumanist Cordeiro transcribes a lively exchange covering religion, theories of time, the possibility of other life in the universe, and more.