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Special to Web visitors, here are a few of the editors' favorite forecasts from the current issue of THE FUTURIST:

Your unique swagger, stagger, or shuffle will speak volumes to security professionals. Gait analysis could soon join fingerprinting and retina scans in the identification technology toolbox. (World Trends & Forecasts, Technology)

The future of money is digital, virtual, and universal (maybe). Economies could benefit from a networked currency that eases transactions and trips up criminals, but a universally trusted digital monetary system is a long way off, according to the OECD. (World Trends & Forecasts, Economics)

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A growing diversity gap in the U.S. could lead to more 2000-like election outcomes. States like California are becoming more diverse in terms of ethnicity, age, and religion, while homogeneous states like Vermont are transforming at a glacial pace. Regional disparity on sociopolitical opinion is likely to grow. ("Assessing American Diversity" by Keith Orndoff)

Education will be totally decentralized by 2025. Even principals may disappear as teachers form their own management teams. ("Education in America: The Next 25 Years" by Irving H. Buchen)

Nanobots could save the world from asteroids. Orbiting nanosatellites monitoring outer space for incoming asteroids and comets would alert other nanobots programmed to land on the impactor, replicate themselves, and strip-mine the rogue to harmless dust. (Book review of Our Molecular Future by Doug Mulhall)

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