Contents for
November-December 2006
Volume 40, No. 6
A magazine of forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future.
ABOUT THIS ISSUE
By Cynthia G. Wagner,
Managing Editor
Tomorrow in Brief
Health Hazard from Shrinking Sea
Simulating Driver Behavior
Cashing in on Organic Crops
AIDS Training on Trains
Digital Archive of Dying Languages
Feedback
Salute to Contributors
COVER STORIES:
Strategy and the Search for Peace Plus:
Globalization or a Rebirth of Nationalism?
Navigating a World of Complex Threats
Strategizing in a Complex and Disaggregated World
Preserving Balance Among the Great Powers |
Outlook 2007
The World Future Society's annual roundup of thought-provoking forecasts
examines trends in business, technology, health, the environment, values,
and much more. Order Reprint
Technology's Promise: Highlights from the
TechCast Project
By William E. Halal
An ongoing study of technology forecasts by leading experts shows
promising breakthroughs in energy, information technology, health care,
transportation, and other critical fields.
Order PDF.
Partners for Progress: Creating Global Strategies
for Humanity's Future
By Cynthia G. Wagner
Though our challenges are growing more complex, our tools for meeting those
challenges are growing more sophisticated, according to speakers at
WorldFuture 2006.
Visions: Rethinking Emergency Housing
By Patrick Tucker
Hurricane Katrina left a number of unanswered question in its wake, such as
how best to house people after a disaster.
Tofflerama, New and (Mostly) Old
A book review by Michael Marien
In Revolutionary Wealth: How It Will Be Created and How It Will
Change Our Lives, Alvin and Heidi Toffler rework previous notions about
societal waves of change and the wealth it creates. But have they missed the
emerging Fourth Wave?
Environment
Drawing Boundaries on Conservation
A Greenhouse-Gas Greenhouse
Government
Special Courts for Health Issues
Society
Fun with Surveillance
Technology
Building a More-Temperate World
Economics
The Well-Being of Nations
Demography
Infant Mortality Rate Is Falling
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