Contents for
May-June 2005
Volume 39, No. 3
A magazine of forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future.
ABOUT THIS ISSUE
By Cynthia G. Wagner,
Managing Editor
Tomorrow in Brief
Dualmode Truck Becomes Railway Car
Grassroots Philanthropy
TV Gets an Interactive Boost
Progress in Fighting Rabbit Fever
Healing with Silver
Feedback
Consultants and ServicesFuturist Newsmakers
By Lester R. Brown
The future will see not just more mouths to feed, but a growing demand for higher-quality, more resource-intensive food. Download
COVER STORY: |
The Digital Dynamic: How Communications Media Shape Our World
by M. Rex Miller
As digital media become the dominate means of communication, they will usher in a new
paradigm, transforming how we think, behave, relate, and create. A business consultant and
communications theorist offers a method of understanding and managing change. Download
Trends Now Shaping the Future: Technological, Workplace,
Management, and Institutional Trends
By Marvin J. Cetron
and Owen Davies
The impacts and unexpected consequences of new technologies will continue to play a major
role in our work lives and institutions, report the authors in part two of this special
report. To order
full report.
Visions: Nanoflowers: The Beauty of Science
By Clifton Coles
Search for nanotech materials yields tiny futuristic flowers. Download
A book review by Lane Jennings
Hope's future is none too bright, at least here on Earth, according to theological scholars contributing to The Future of Hope, edited by Miroslav Volf and William Katerberg.
Saving the Environment Saves Human Lives
High-Tech Biking
Kazakhstan Seeks Wind Power
Technology
Titanium Used for Skull Defects
Electronic Paper Will Revolutionize TV
Fighting Crime with Closed-Circuit Cameras
Economics
Lunar Tourism by 2020s?
Hot Industries with Hot Jobs
America Wastes Half Its Food
Combating Copycat Violence
Demography
Obesity as a Major Malnutrition Issue
Contraception Rises Among U.S. Women
Mother's Diet May Affect Child's Health in Adulthood
Government
Generating Alternatives to Radical Islam
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