Contents for
May-June 2002
Volume 36, No. 3
A magazine of forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future.
ABOUT THIS ISSUE
By Cindy Wagner,
Managing Editor
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Life or Europa?
Fire ant invasion
Cocoa Farming and women
Good sports, better sports
Bionic man cometh?
Feedback
By Kofi A. Annan
The United Nations' priorities for the future are to promote democracy, prevent conflict, and lessen the burden of global poverty.
Toward a Practical Utopianism
By Tsvi Bisk
Utopian thinking needs to be rescued from fantasy and fanaticism; it must embrace science
but disclaim moral relativism.
The Internet of the Future: To Control or Be Controlled
By Marcel Bullinga
Networked, intelligent environments will give us complete control over our world, our
privacy, and our property. But we also will be more watched, and our actions more
controlled.
| COVER STORY Virtual Reality Is Getting Real: Prepare to Meet Your Clone By John C. Briggs Virtual reality is not yet an everyday reality, but in the next 10 to 20 years, VR experiences will be fully integrated into real life. We'll "attend" meetings, practice surgical techniques, travel to exotic places, test design flaws before building things, and create digital clones to be our representatives in virtual worlds. |
By Steven Stocker
Scientists may soon be able to identify children who are likely to become alcoholics. But will society be able to prevent their addiction?
Personal Futures: The World Is
Your Classroom: Lessons in Self Renewal
by John W. Gardner
An innovative society is made up of individuals who continuously renew their thinking
throughout their lives, the late John W. Gardner argued eloquently in his classic book Self-Renewal.
Future View: Learning to Cope with Complexity
by Thierry C. Pauchant and Ian I. Mitroff
We can enhance our future security by learning more about our society's complexities.
Keys to the 21st Century
edited by Jerome Binde
(Reviewed by Lane Jennings)Books in Brief
The Best That Money Can't Buy
by Jacque Fresco
New Ideas about New Ideas
by Shira P. White
Fooled by Randomness
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Futurist Bookshelf
"Soundsmithing" in the Digital Music Future by Guy V. Briggs
The University of the Future
Economics
Tomorrow's Job Titles
Demography
Trends in Global Obesity
Running Out of Oil
Cooling Trend in Antarctica
Technology
How the Space Station Will Benefit Earthlings by Brian Duffy
Government
Personal Investments Could Shrink Government
Making Activism Work
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