Contents for
November-December 2004
Volume 38, No. 6
A magazine of forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future.
ABOUT THIS ISSUE
By Cynthia G. Wagner,
Managing Editor
Feedback
Tomorrow in Brief
Hum That Tune
Luminescent Alarms for Light Awakenings
Robotic Librarian
Studying Abroad
A Multimedia Kitchen
Feedback
Consultants and ServicesA Salute to Our Contributors
COVER STORY: |
High Schools for Futurism: Nurturing the Next
Generation
By Arthur B. Shostak
Foresight techniques have been absent from high-school classrooms. Sociologist and
innovative thinker Arthur B. Shostak describes a school curriculum to inspire young
learners to use and enjoy futurist thinking.
Outlook 2005
The world Future Society's annual roundup of thought-provoking forecasts examines
trends in business, science, health, the environment, values, and much more.
Reinventing Sex: New Technologies and Changing Attitudes
By Eric Garland
New technologies will promote pleasure, simulate reality, improve performance, and thwart
disease.
Creating a More Intelligent Future
By Cynthia G. Wagner
The World Future Society's 2004 meeting focused on improving our foresight, enhancing our
intelligence, and developing partnerships with each other and with our rapidly advancing
technologies.
Visionaries: Learning to Look Up
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson of the Hayden Planetarium is teaching the
world to see the universe.
A book review by Wendell Bell
The history, purposes, and tools of futures thinking are illustrated with clarity and grace by Edward Cornish, former president of the World Future Society, in Futuring: The Exploration of the Future.
The End of
Written Language?
Review of VIVO [Voice-In/Voice-Out]
Tools for Better Global Thinking
Review of 2004 State of the Future.
Are consultants killing creativity?
Environment
Hotter heat waves foreseen
Invasion of the super rats
Society
Keeping scientists on the job
Adulthood grows more elusive
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Forming a global authority
By Amitai Etzioni
Demography
Women in war
The world responds to rotavirus
Breast-feeding and breast cancer
Technology
The
military's wireless future
By Trace Gunsch
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