Contents for
March-April 2002
Volume 36, No. 2
A magazine of forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future.
ABOUT THIS ISSUE
By Cindy Wagner,
Managing Editor
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"Smokerlyzers"
Renewable-energy jobs
Medicinal laughter
Lost-object detection
The greening of minds
Feedback
By Jack Uldrich
The tools we need for realizing the goals of nanotechnology are improving at accelerating rates. Add new sources of funding from venture capitalists and adventurous governments, mix in some potent competitive juices, and you have the formula for a big revolution from a very small technology.
| COVER STORY: The Eco-Economic Revolution: Getting the Market in Sync with Nature By Lester R. Brown If we want economic progress to continue, we must systematically restructure the global economy to make it environmentally sustainable. |
VISIONS: An Underground Utopia
Paintings by Malcolm Wells
Burrowed--not buried--in earth-sheltered environments, humans may reconnect with nature
and each other.
By Michael Marien
"Utopia" is now associated with wild dreamers and authoritarian leaders. It's time to reexamine utopian thinking in the context of efforts to envision and promote a better future.
BONUS: Book review of Utopian Thinking in Sociology
Brighter Visions for Africa
By Cynthia G. Wagner
Young Africans share their ideas for a better future for the continent in the book African Voices, African Visions.
Japan's Uncertain Future: Key Trends and Scenarios
By David J. Staley
Japan has plummeted from economic powerhouse to faltering giant in less than a generation.
What kind of future will be shaped By the forces that are driving Japanese society?
Future View: Top 10 Reasons to Watch Trends
By Cynthia G. Wagner
World Future Society members explain the value of environmental scanning and trend
analysis.
All Connected Now
by Walter Truett Anderson
(Reviewed by Victor Ferkiss)Books in Brief
Principles of Forecasting
ed. by J. Scott Armstrong
Visionaries
edited by Jay Walljasper et al.
When Generations Collide
by Lynne C. Lancaster and David Stillman
The Futurist Bookshelf
Breakthroughs in Plastics
Environment
Tree-Cutting Harms Water Supplies
Good News on the Hudson River
Government
Progress Against Corruption
Anticipating Civil Wars
Psychiatry on the Couch
Economics
The Rise of the Knowledge Manager
Demography
The Global Epidemic of Drug Resistance
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