Contents for
November-December 2001
Volume 35, No. 6
A magazine of forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future.
ABOUT THIS ISSUE
By Cindy Wagner,
Managing Editor
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Demand Grows for Financial Mathematicians
Cloning Stem Cells
Organic Foods
Soy-Powered Aircraft
Tobacco and Developing Economies
Feedback
Institutional Members
©Digital Vision/Wonderfile
By Richard Eckersley
Homo sapiens may receive its evolutionary pink slip by 2050, according to authors tracking "spikes" in technology and population.
The Transformed
Workplace: How You Can Survive
By John Challenger
Companies are playing by different rules in the New Economy. Is your rulebook up to date?
OUTLOOK 2002
Roundup of the year's most thought-provoking forecasts.
Trial Run for Virtual Court
By Gene Stephens
Courtroom 21, a laboratory for testing technologies to improve judicial proceedings, put
the concept of cybercourts on trial.
By Terry Ray Hiller
Twenty-first century arts institutions may evolve into edutainment centers, delivering gallery tours in cyberspace and staging holographic plays.
New Directions for
Leaders: FutureScope 2001
by Cynthia G. Wagner
The World Future Society's annual meeting drew 1,000 futurists to Minneapolis to explore
the impacts of technological and social innovation.
Visions: Battles on the Beaches
By Cynthia G. Wagner
Shoreline communities hope to build better futures for their favorite ecosystems.
Book Review:
Who's Afraid of a Moral Society?
A book review by Lane Jennings
[review of The Monochrome Society by Amitai Etzioni]
Bomb Defusers Get Smarter
Aerial Rescue Platform
Demography
Megacities of the Future
Teen Drinking
Government
Power Politics Trumps Globalization
Healthier Homes Envisioned
Improving Water Quality
Economics
Is Globalization a Myth?
Surviving the Downturn: Step Back Before You Fall
A Shift in Moral Authority
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