Contents for
Sept-Oct 2007
Volume 41, No. 5
A magazine of forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future.
ABOUT THIS ISSUE
By Cynthia G. Wagner,
Managing Editor
Tomorrow in Brief
Catching Getaway Cars
Hydrogen Power On Demand
Music-Making for the Disabled
Laser Surveillance
Dissolving Clothes
Feedback
Consultants and Services
Middle East
By Marvin J. Cetron and Owen Davies
Current trends indicate that a Middle Eastern war might last for decades. Here is an overview of the most critical potential impacts.
Plus:
War Is a No-Win Scenario
By James Forest
No Security Without Understanding
By Ziauddin Sardar
"Not with a Bang":
Civilization's
Accelerating Challenge
By Arnold Brown
Information overload and incompetence are among the side effects of
increasing technological and societal complexity.
Anticipations: The Remarkable
Forecasts of H.G. Wells
By Paul Crabtree
In 1901 H.G. Wells looked to the century ahead and predicted suburbia,
flying machines, American superpower status, and moving sidewalks. But he
had a few misses, too.
Cover Story |
Adventures in Organization Building: Adding Star Power to Futuring
By Edward Cornish
Isaac Asimov, Margaret Mead, and Gerald Ford were among the luminaries
recruited for various meetings and programs that were launched to help the
struggling young World Future Society meet ever more pressing challenges,
recounts the founding president in the fifth installment of his memoirs.
Visions
Smart Fashion:
By Patrick Tucker
The digitally enhanced wardrobe arrives.
The Artificial
Mind and the Posthuman Future
By Patrick Tucker
Restoring Mother Nature's Capital
Great Plains Grasslands At Risk
Government
Germany to Build a Chinatown
Society
Japan's Approach to Aging and Dying
World Population Forecast Rises
Technology
Finding Invisibility
Economics
How to Buy Happiness
Valuing a Company's Innovators
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