Contents for
March-April 2004
Volume 38, 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
Practical Uses for Mind Research
Talking Trash Cans
Diversity Could Protect
Computers
Compulsive Spending the
Younger Generation
More Women in the Boardroom
Feedback
Consultants and Services
By Nat Irvin II
A futurist thinker and business professor writes about an emerging generation of blacks dictating a new future for themselves, free from the history of victimization and oppression.
Forecasts for Artificial Intelligence
By Bohumir Stedron
Artificial intelligence may become not only smarter, but also wiser and more
independent.
The Intelligent Internet: The Promise of Smart Computers and
E-Commerce
By William E. Halal
Information and communication technologies are rapidly converging to create
machines that understand us, do what we tell them to, and even anticipate our needs.
Who Is Really Evil?
By Wendell Bell
We must go beyond the age-old rhetoric of projecting evil onto others to explain human
actions that do harm.
FUTURE VIEW: Enhance, Or Not to Enhance
By Lane Jennings read excerpt
Could genetically enhanced super-beings end our way of Life?
| COVER STORIES: What If . . . ? What If You Could Be Instantly Smarter? A Thought Experiment By Daniel Rigney read excerpt The Pros and Cons of "smart pills." Letters to Unborn Daughters: Exploring the
Implications of Genetic Engineering Doctor Dolittle for Real? Raising Questions About Interspecies Communications
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excerpt The Transformation of Marriage |
A book review by Lane Jennings
Science fiction helps us find our place in the world of tomorrow, suggest the contributors to Envisioning the Future
Fear and Loathing in the Virtual Workforce
Global Wage Gap is Closing
Demography
The Graying of Latin America
India's Disappearing Females
Government
Water
Without War
Models for Global Governance
Religious Upsurge in Vietnam
Reexamining Intimacy
Saving Our Voices
Technology
Binocular Telescope Puts Heavens in Focus
Nanoguitar Is Music to Engineers' Ears
Nanotech vs. Biohazards
Environment
Saving Nature's Medicine Chest
Britain's Disappearing Birds
Modifying the Weather To combat Drought
Locating Oil Spill Sources
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