Contents for
March-April 2003
Volume 37, No. 2
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
Data Dump from Space
Energy or Fish?
Cooking with Light and Vacuum
Detecting Skin Cancer
Singing Computer Bugs
Feedback
Consultants and Services What's New on wfs.org
COVER STORIES Idea Experts' Roundtable |
Trends Shaping the Future: Technological, Workplace, Management, and
Institutional Trends
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By Marvin J. Cetron and Owen Davies
Technology's importance to the economy and society will accelerate, and R&D will
add new opportunities--and new challenges in public policy, management, and the world in
general.
By William E. Halal
Digital robots, speech-recognition technology, and wall-mounted monitors will make computers our indispensable companions over the next 10 years.
Winning the War
Against Aging
By Joćo Pedro de Magalhćes
Why die? There may soon be nothing preventing great-grandparents from being as agile
in body and mind as their descendants.
FUTURE VIEW
The New Followership: A Challenge for Leaders
By Arnold Brown
Follwership is changing in the digital age, so leaders must change, too.
Science in the Next 50 Years
A review by Hope Cristol
The Next Fifty Years
edited by John Brockman
Books in Brief
The Next Hundred Years ... Then and Now
by Robert Cartmill
Strategic
Planning for Smart Leadership
by William J. Austin
The Seeds of
Innovation
by Elaine Dundon
The Impending Jobs Crisis
Technologies Benefiting BusinessSociety
High-Tech Thrives Where Gays Live Environment
Natural Disasters on the Rise
Fighting Invading Species
Testing the Limits of ToleranceTechnology
Robots with Emotions
New Alarms about Pesticide Resistance
Demography
Lifestyle Diseases Strike New Targets
Promoting Condoms for AIDS Prevention
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