Contents for
July-August 2005
Volume 39, No. 4
A magazine of forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future.
ABOUT THIS ISSUE
By Cynthia G. Wagner,
Managing Editor
Feedback Executive Summaries
Tomorrow in Brief
Functional Ink
Fish Pirates
Analyzing the Blogosphere
Podcasting Booms
Alternative Medicine Gains Popularity
Feedback
Consultants and ServicesFuturist Newsmakers
By Ken Dychtwald
"Old age" and "retirement" must be rethought and redefined as the baby boomers surge through the later stages of life, according to a renowned authority on aging.
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The Challenge of an Aging Society
By Richard D. Lamm and Robert H. Blank
The future of U.S. health care must involve some form of rationing, argue a former governor and a medical-policy scholar. The problem is not simply how to control costs, but how to achieve social justice.
What's Next for Nanotechnology
By J. Storrs Hall
What nanotechnology will--and will not--do in the future is explored by a leading
nano-research scientist.
Read review of Nanofuture.
VISIONS:
Visualizing the Future through Film
By Arthur B. Shostak
Scenes form films about the future help to shape our visions of tomorrow. But what will
happen when technology enables us to insert ourselves directly into these "scenes of
consequence?"
COVER STORY: |
Extra-Preneurship: Reinventing Enterprise for the
Information Age
By David Pearce Snyder
Information technologies are toppling traditional hierarchical business-management
systems. The new model for twenty-first-century management will be
extra-preneurship--virtual networks based on collaboration.
Racing
Toward a Super-Tech Future?
A book review by Edward Cornish
Super Tech or Human Tech? In choosing technology, we cast our votes for the world's
future, write Joel A. Barker and Scott W. Erickson, the authors of Five Regions
of the Future.
Progress Report on Development Goals
Technology
All-Terrain
Robotics
Digitally Enhanced Teaching
Economics
Demystifying
Poverty
New African Visions for Combating AIDS
Environment
Turning Waste Heat into Fresh Water
Society
Mind over Misery
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