Contents for
May-June 2009
Volume 43, No. 3
A magazine of forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future.
Tomorrow
in Brief
Raising Saltwater Fish Far from Oceans
Word Watch: Ecoflation
Saving South America’s Vicuña
Producing Artificial Skin, Factory-Style
Nano-sized Additive Strengthens Concrete
Feedback
Consultants and Services
Wild Cards in
Our Future
In
the January 2009 issue of Futurist Update, the World Future
Society’s free e-newsletter, we invited readers to submit their ideas of
“wild cards” that futurists need to be looking at critically right now.
This special report showcases a few of the responses.
Free PDF
How "Wild
Cards" May Reshape Our Future
By John L.
Petersen
The Disappearance of Food:
The Next Global Wild Card?
By John Rockefeller
A Wild Card Sampler
By Brian Pomeroy
Are Market Economies
Imploding?
By Marc Blasband
Artificial Intelligence
Displaces Service Workers
By Steve Malerich
Sunspots and a
Communications Catastrophe
By Dennis Miner
Looking Toward the Future
in the Midst of Economic Uncertainty
By Martin Wolf
A
Financial Times
columnist looks at
challenges facing the global economy and how the actions of governments
could improve the situation—or worsen it.
PDF
Synthesis: An
Interdisciplinary Discipline
By Bruce L.
Tow and David A. Gilliam
As the
professional world becomes
more and more
specialized, it’s time
for
today’s—and tomorrow’s—
leaders to
embrace a multidisciplinary
approach to
problem solving.
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PLUS: The Build Your Own Nation Expert Advice Center
New Lands in the
Twenty-First Century
A Mini-History of
Micronations |
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Your Solar-Powered
Future: It’s Closer Than You Thought
Future
View: Forecasts in Hindsight |
In Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, Harvard Medical School psychiatrist John Ratey gives the majority of Americans and the 60% of the world’s people who do not exercise enough for good health even more reason to get off their duffs and start moving. Ratey effectively summarizes recent research and case histories to show that exercise is good for you mentally as well as physically — a regular exercise program can literally heal a troubled mind. Review by Kenneth W. Harris
Government
Rehabilitating Terrorists
Saudi government uses unconventional methods to fight extremism.
Society
No College Student
Left Behind?
Educators propose a new method to measure
undergraduates'' progress.
Stalking Goes High Tech
Economics
Nuclear Power’s
Costs
Decommissioning plants presents a challenge.
Recession and Labor-Force Growth?
Environment
Last-Resort Solutions to Global Warming
Geoengineering the planet to stave
of disaster
By Jamais Cascio
Technology
Singularity University Set to Open
Silicon Valley VIPs open school to study technology trends
Smarter Smart Phones
Demography
Healthy People, Healthy Communities
Good health, like good real-estate, is about 'l'ocation,
location, location."
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