Contents for
January February 2003
Volume 37, No. 1
A magazine of forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future.
ABOUT THIS ISSUE
By Cynthia G. Wagner,
Managing Editor
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Tomorrow in Brief
The South's Stroke Belt
Rain Forests: Good News and Bad News
Majoring in Debt
Cleaning Up E-Waste
Nanobatteries
Feedback
Consultants and Services 2002 Index to THE FUTURISTPersonal
Futures
Ideas and tools for building your future
Being Your Own Boss
Finding a Mate in the 21st Century
COVER STORY |
Drugs from Bugs: The Promise of Pharmaceutical
Entomology
By Stephen Trowell
Most research with insects involves getting rid of them or fighting the diseases they
spread. Now, researchers in Australia are enlisting insects--or chemicals derived from
them--to fight diseases.
The Short Path from Fiction to Science
By Douglas Mulhall
Forecasts deemed fantastic and science fictional can rapidly become frighteningly factual.
Assessing American Diversity
By Keith Orndoff
There is a growing discrepancy in the degree and types of diversity from region to region
in the United States.
By Irving H. Buchen
The driving force to education in the next 25 years will be choice, fueled by changing roles for teachers, administrators, students and entire communities.
VISIONS: Playful Therapy
By Hope Cristol
A new generation of toys for impaired children could significantly improve cognitive,
motor, and social skills.
How Socialists Viewed the Future
A Book Review by Arthur B. Shostak
Expectations for the Millennium: American Socialist Visions of the Future
edited by Peter H. Buckingham.
Books in Brief
What's Next?
by Eamonn Kelly, Peter Leyden, et al.
Our
Molecular Future
by Douglas Mulhall
Habits
of the High-Tech Heart
by Quentin J. Schultze
Walking: A New Step for Security
Stopping Cyberattacks
Robotic Intelligence Measures UpSociety
Success without College Government
Water Pressure Builds Worldwide [box: Hot Spots for Water Wars]
Predicting Obesity [chart: Obesity in the United States]
Asia's Youth Population Is GrowingEnvironment
Four Different Versions of the Environmental Future [box/chart: Four Scenarios for Ecosystems Pressured by Infrastructure] Economics
Money's Digital Future [box: The Moneys in Your Life]
Win-Win Outcomes of Carbon Trading
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