Contents for
March-April 2001
Volume 35, No. 2
A magazine of forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future.
ABOUT THIS ISSUE
By Cindy Wagner,
Managing Editor
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Test-Tube Pancreas
Earthquake Suit
Weighing Trucks in Motion
E-Résumés Preferred
Electric Vehicles Speed Up
Fallout from Economic Progress
Feedback
Future Active
Toward a New Age of Meaning: Van
Wishard's Between Two Ages
Thousand-Year Futures: Foundation
For the Future's Humanity 3000:
Seminar No. 2 Proceedings Consultants Corner
Technology Futures Inc.
Henry Luke Consultants and Services
By Ronald Inglehart and Wayne E. Baker
"Modernization" means "Americanization" to many people. But a study by two social researchers indicates that traditional values will keep most countries from becoming "McWorld."
Trends Now Changing the World: Technology, The
Workplace, Management, and Institutions
By Marvin Cetron and Owen Davies
All careers and businesses will be transformed by new technologies in often unpredictable
ways. The implications of this and other key trends are explored in part two of the
author's special report.
by Gary Marx
An education futurist examines 10 major trends and the challenges they present for schools and school systems that must prepare students now for a profoundly different future.
Unintended
Consequences: Why Our Plans Don't Go According to Plan
By Steven M. Gillon
Unintended consequences teach futurists, presidents, and government policy makers a lesson
in humility.
Personal Futures: The Art of Strategic Anticipation: Investing in Your Positive
Futures
By Wallace Wilkins
All kinds of futures are possible for us, some desirable and some we'd like to avoid. A
psychologist argues that our best strategy is to anticipate futures that enhance our lives
today.
By Dinesh D'Souza (Reviewed by Lane Jennings)
Books in Brief
Liberating Everyday Genius
By Mary-Elaine Jacobsen
The Community Planning Handbook
Compiled and edited by Nick Wates
The Futurist Bookshelf
What Children Need But May Not Get [box: Youth Trends in Brief]
The Rise of the Millennial GenerationEconomics
Adapting to the Adaptables
By Roger E. Herman
Transnational Investing [box: Top 10 Border-Crossing Industries] Government
Lawyers Face Future Shock
Anticipating Our Environmental FutureSociety
Polling the Planet Technology
Touch-Feely Robots
Ultrasonic Therapy
Pay Phones for the Wireless Age
Immortality for Human Skin?
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