Contents for
July-August 2008
Volume 42, No. 4
A magazine of forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future.
About This Issue
By Cynthia G. Wagner,
Managing Editor
Your Future Has Been Delayed
Move Over, Silicon. Here Comes Graphene
Soaring Demand for Biofuels
See-Through Technology Ensures Privacy
Paperless Bathrooms?
Feedback
Consultants and Services
Cybercrime in the Year 2025
By Gene Stephens
In 1981, criminal-justice scholar Gene Stephens wrote an article for THE
FUTURIST on "Crime in the Year 2000," and in 1995, an article on "Crime in
Cyberspace." In both he suggested the role the computer and Internet would
play in crime and crime fighting in the future. Here, he reviews what he got
right, what he got wrong, and why, and suggests the types of cybercrimes and
cybercrime fighting that will occur by the year 2025.
PDF Available.
Consumer
Trends in Three Different "Worlds"
By Andy Hines
In the
first of a two-part series, a professional futurist looks at the big trends
in demography, money, and consumerism that will shape the world in the next
decade.
PDF available.
Cover Story
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The Futurist Bookshelf
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World Where No One Ages
Review by Rick
Docksai
An Economic Approach to Saving the Environment (and Ourselves). Review by Aaron Cohen.
Unreasonable
People Needed
Review by Rick Docksai
The Marriage of Inventions
Review by Patrick Tucker
Hot Spots for Carbon Dioxide
Researchers map America's major sources of greenhouse gas emissions.
Government
India's Progress in Reducing Child Labor
New economy's need for skilled labor sends India's youth back to school
Society
Young,
Single, and Spiritual
Can
traditional religions reach out to the MySpace generation?
The U-Shapped Curve of Happiness
Want to be happy? Try Being old, or young!
Technology
Tomorrow
in Briefs
Specially engineered undergarments promote healthy
circulation
Economics
Free-Market Reform in Developing Nations
Can a deregulated economy really save the Third World?
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