Contents for
March-April 2006
Volume 40, No. 2
A magazine of forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future.
ABOUT THIS ISSUE
By Patrick Tucker,
Assistant Editor
Feedback Executive Summaries Back Issues
Tomorrow in Brief
Swimming with Dolphins
"ButterflyNet" Captures Scientists' Field Notes
Robotic Treadmill
Buckyballs May Threaten DNA
Digital Cinema Comes Closer to Reality
Futurist Newsmakers
By John M. Eger
The leading authority on information technology argues that cities must nurture the creative potential and community engagement of their citizens.
Cyberimmortality:
Science, Religion, and the Battle to Save Our Souls
By William Sims Bainbridge
Research enabling you one day to archive and regenerate your memory, personality, and
consciousness—giving you cyberimmortality—may meet resistance from religious
groups arguing that the soul is a spirit, not a system.
A Timeline for Technology: To the Year 2030 and Beyond
By Ian Pearson and Ian Neild
What's ahead in technology, and what will it mean. This new timeline offers a glimpse of
likely developments—and of how they may change our lives. Order extra copies.
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Translation by Machine: A Bridge Across the
Multicultural Gap
By David Belluomini
Growing diversity is a challenge in many U.S. neighborhoods. Technologies for
overcoming language barriers offer hope for facilitating better communication.
SCENARIOS: At Home with Ambient Intelligence
By Patrick Tucker
In the future, your environment will respond to your needs and moods before you even
know what they are.
Planning in an Age of Hyperchange
A book review by Edward Cornish.
In FutureThink: How to Think Clearly in a Time of Change, business trend watchers
Edie Weiner and Arnold Brown share their insights into what's happening in the world today
and what it bodes for the future.
Preparing
Youth for the Future
A book review by Edward Cornish.
Educators need to futurize curricula, argues Marsha Lynne Rhea in Anticipate the
World You Want.
Redefining National Security
Environment
Saving
the Tropics' Dry Forests
Bird Songs May Sound Alarms
Society
Speech Codes and the Future of Education
College Prep in Elementary School
Stress and the Brain
Disaster Planning for the Disabled
Economics
The New "Secondhand" Market
Technology
Embryonic Stem Cells Promise New Cures
Alternative to Mammography
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