Contents for
May-June 2006
Volume 40, No. 3
A magazine of forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future.
ABOUT THIS ISSUE
By Cynthia Wagner,
Managing Editor
Feedback Executive Summaries Back Issues
Tomorrow in Brief
Sports Car Breathes Air, Produces Water
Herbal Supplements' Harmful Side Effects
Lightening Up Our Moods
Emotionally Sensitive Computers
Solution for Surfboard Crisis?
COVER STORY: |
Personal Futuring: A Step-by-Step Guide
By Verne Wheelwright
A professional futurist explains how to blaze your own path to success.
Plus: Personal Futuring in Action
By Anne Rigby
A FUTURIST reader tested Verne Wheelwright's personal foresight system.
The World's Top Super Projects: The Best of the Big
By McKinley Conway and Laura Lyne
Two development analysts rank the world's top super projects of recent history.
Building a More-Humane Economy
By Robert D. Atkinson
With the emergence of a new economy based on the growth of knowledge jobs and higher
productivity, the challenge now is to create a society that satisfies our deeper human
needs and wants.
The Digital Health-Care Revolution: Empowering Health Consumers
By Thelma Leaffer with Larry Mickelberg
Anywhere and anytime access to a world of medical information is helping consumers to
take better charge of their health.
FUTURE VIEW: The Mind- Programmable Era
By Michael Chorost
A technology writer who received a cochlear implant to improve his hearing explains
how future implants may open up exciting new possibilities while also making our thoughts
more transparent.
The
Killer Economy–and What to Do About It
A book review by Patrick Tucker
You can't buy happiness, but you can buy misery, says social critic Paul Stiles, author of
Is the American Dream Killing You? How "The Market Rules Our Lives.
Homosexual Relationships
Society
Raiding
the Past: What Future for Antiquities?
Government
Protecting Istanbul from Disaster
Running on Fumes
Curing "Nature Deficit Disorder"
Technology
The Nanotech
Gold Rush
Economics
Developing Nations Close Education Gap
Housing Shortages and Economic Development
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