Special to Web visitors, here are a few of the editors' favorite forecasts from this issue of The Futurist (January-February 2000):

• By about 2003, the American labor movement will either skillfully be using computers or have become "roadkill" on the information superhighway. -- Arthur B. Shostak, author of Cyberunion, page 7.

• A new method for screening embryos for genetic diseases, called preimplantation genetic diagnosis, will one day become a common diagnostic tool.--Kangpu Xu, Weill Medical College, page 12.

• By 2020, we will share our planet with synthetic intelligent life forms; they may even have legal rights.

• By 2010, the highest-paid movie star will be synthetic.

                                               -- Ian D. Pearson, BT Labs
                                            from his technology timeline, page 14.

• By 2030, over half of all U.S. adults will be age 50 or greater, and thus eligible to join the American Association for Retired Persons.-- Peter G. Peterson, author of Gray Dawn, page 20.

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