Contents for
September-October 2005
Volume 39, No. 5
A magazine of forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future.
ABOUT THIS ISSUE
By Cynthia G. Wagner,
Managing Editor
Feedback Executive Summaries
Tomorrow in Brief
Sports for Disabled Athletes
Food Gets Fancier, Faster, Fresher
Brain Cells Grown in Lab
Preventing Breast Cancer
Undoing Human Damage to Lakes
Feedback
Consultants and Services
Martian Meals
(see Space Food Goes Gourmet)
By John Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey
Many people in industrialized societies feel time-pressured. The problem isn't how much time we have, but rather how we use it.
Your Personal Information: Managing
Your Most Valuable Asset
By Brian Mulconrey
High demand for your personal information--and for your attention--exposes you to both
information overload and potential identity theft. Help is on the way.
Aging and Public Institutions
By Konrad M. Kressley
From campuses to prisons, institutions will need extreme makeovers to serve the public's
needs in an aging society.
The Outlook for Alzheimer's Disease
By Tyler A. Kokjohn and Kimbal E. Cooper
No cure is yet in sight, but preventing Alzheimer's disease may be possible. If the
disease is caused by plaque buildup, similar to cardiovascular diseases, then individuals
might be able to control or prevent Alzheimer's through healthier diets and lifestyles.
COVER STORY: |
Faith for the Future: Updating Religious Paradigms
for the Infotech Age
By Don C. Davis
Religious leaders now have a major opportunity to accept the new knowledge and
capabilities created by science and technology, and guide individuals to a better
understanding of their responsibilities for each other and the world.
VISIONS: Space Food Goes Gourmet
By Cynthia G. Wagner
Chefs and scientists cook up appetizing fare for astronauts.
Finding Success in the "Conceptual
Age"
A book review by Edward Cornish
Finding work in the future will require "a whole new mind," according to
business writer Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind: Moving from the
Information Age to the Conceptual Age.
Escape to Another Universe
A book review by Patrick Tucker
In Parallel Worlds, best-selling science writer Michio Kaku looks at
interstellar space travel in the distant future.
Making Rooms Smarter
Basketball for the Blind
An Energy Supergrid
Environment
A Solar-Hydrogen Home
Government
Privatizing
the Trains
Stay-at-Home Dads
Economics
The Conscientious Tourist
Society
Digital
Music: You Are What You Listen To
Games to Help Kids Deal with Bullies
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