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January-February 2005

January-February 2005 Tomorrow in Brief:
Three-Wheeled Cars for Cities; Half of U.S. Adults Will Use Food      Stamps; Laser Detects Explosives; Fashions That Flash Your Message; Fly Population May Double

January-February 2005 World Trends & Forecasts:
ENVIRONMENT--Salt-Loving Flowers
TECHNOLOGY--Advances in Voice Recognition
DEMOGRAPHY--Four Countertrends in Global Demography; Teen Pregnancy and "Internal Poverty;" Fetal Forecasts
GOVERNMENT--Power to Our Neighborhoods!
SOCIETY--The Future for Jews and Israel
ECONOMICS--Learning from Failures; Optional Retirement

Institutional Members
2004 Subject/Author Index to THE FUTURIST

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November-December 2004

November-December 2004 Tomorrow in Brief:
Hum That Tune (Fraunhofer Institute); Robotic Librarian (University Jaume); Studying Abroad (British Council); Luminescent Alarms for Light Awakenings (Rachel Wingfield); A Multimedia Kitchen (Salton icebox)

November-December 2004 World Trends & Forecasts:
ECONOMICS--Are Consultants Killing Creativity? (Stuart MacDonald)
ENVIRONMENT--Hotter Heat Waves Foreseen (National Center for Atmospheric Research; Princeton University; Science); Invasion of the Super Rats (University of Leicester)
SOCIETY--Keeping Science's Best and Brightest On the Job (Leaving Science, Anne E. Preston); Adulthood Grows More Elusive (Frank N. Furstenberg Jr., Contexts, American Sociological Association)
GOVERNMENT--Forming a Global Authority (author: Amitai Etzioni)
DEMOGRAPHY--Women in War (United Nations Population Fund); The World Responds to Rotavirus (Pan American Health Organization); Breast-Feeding and Breast Cancer (University of Southern California)
TECHNOLOGY--The Military's Wireless Future (author: Trace Gunsch)
November-December 2004: Miscellaneous:
Salute to Our Contributors

September-October 2004

September-October 2004 Tomorrow in Brief:
Bird's-Eye View of Flight; Racing to Fuel Efficiency, Slowly; Science and Storytelling; Climate Change and Epidemics; Cash-Free Parking

September-October 2004 World Trends & Forecasts:
SOCIETY--The Future of the Smile (source: A Brief History of the Smile by Angus Trumble); Sibling Violence Leads to Violent Dating; Mini-Moms
ECONOMICS--Beauty Business Booms; Workforce "Perk" Barometer (John Challenger)
TECHNOLOGY--Grow Your Own Teeth; AI Helps Keep Seniors Mobile; Weeds as Medicines
ENVIRONMENT--Blackout's Benefits; Predicting Beach Erosion; Domesticated Trees May Save Forests; Arctic Carbon May Speed Global Warming
DEMOGRAPHY--Trends Halting Population Growth (source: The End of World Population Growth in the 21st Century by Wolfgang Lutz et al.); Learning More about Women's Health; Eliminating Iodine Deficiencies
GOVERNMENT--Hungary's Turbulent Transformation to Capitalism, by Magdolna Csath

September-October 2004 Futurist Newsmakers:
How to Win the Peace (Thomas Barnett); Fighting Back on Health-Care Costs (Wanda Jones); Brighter Future for Texans (Joel Barker); Booming into Middle Age (David Baxter)

September-October 2004 Special Announcement:
New Leadership for World Future Society (Timothy C. Mack)

September-October 2004 Miscellaneous:
Toward Planetary Citizenship [box with Wendell Bell's article; report on Planetary Citizenship by Hazel Henderson and Daisaku Ikeda]
Transitioning to the Hyper-Human Economy [box with Richard W. Samson's article]

Aging and Retirement Trends: Causes and Objectives [box with Michael Moynagh and Richard Worsley's article]

July-August 2004

July-August 2004 Tomorrow in Brief
Wind Power for Homes; Finding Concealed Weapons; Western Lifestyles and South African Women; Coal-Fired Jets; Fighting Pests with Essential Oils

July-August 2004 World Trends & Forecasts
ENVIRONMENT--Amateurs Join Experts to Save Wildlife; The End of Oil; Climate Threatens Mass Extinctions
TECHNOLOGY--Protecting National Borders; "Virtual Womb: Will Help Prevent Premature Births; Digital Cinema: A Breakthrough?
ECONOMICS--Prospects for the "Dragon" and the "Tiger" by Marvin J. Cetron; Advertising's New Frontiers
GOVERNMENT--Preventing Genocide; Political Passivity Among the Jobless
SOCIETY--Aggression and Violent Media; Internet Adds Spice to Marriage and Monogamy; Baby Boomers' New Retirement Ideas; The World Responds to Aging
DEMOGRAPHY--Marriage and the Educated Woman; Nations at Risk for Violent Conflict

July-August 2004 Optimistic Outlooks:
Values Shift for Urban Music? Long-Term Benefits of Arguing; Recessions Futurist Lessons

July-August 2004 Obituary:
Indian Futurist Rashmi Mayur

July-August 2004 Futurist Newsmakers:
Transparent Workplace (Faith Popcorn); Life in 2525 (Marcene Sonneborn); Fresh Apple? (Paul Saffo); Retailing: Out of the Big Box (Jay Valgora)

May-June 2004

May-June 2004 Tomorrow in Brief
Disappearing Snowcaps; Battlefield Clarity; Stimulating Weak Muscles; Troubling Tends for the Human Future; Biological Clock in Space

May-June 2004 World Trends & Forecasts
GOVERNMENT--Keeping Leaders Up on Technology and Science (Science and Technology Advice for Congress, edited by M. Granger Morgan and Jon M. Peha); Fighting the Sahara (Taming the Sahara by Andrew Borowiec); Keeping Scientists in Argentina; Bioforensic Standards
SOCIETY--Odd Working Hours Cause Family Stress (Working in a 24/7 Economy by Harriet B. Presser); How Do "Knowledge Societies" Measure Up?
ENVIRONMENT--Marine Mapping and Monitoring; Farming Subsidies Threaten the Environment
TECHNOLOGY--Robots and Sensors Help Make Seniors Mobile; Smart Homes for Elderly [box]; Underground Trains Across America? (Faster Than Jets by Brad Swartzwelter)
DEMOGRAPHY--Bringing Violence Under Control; Youth Programs Vital for Adult Success (The State of World Population 2003, UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund)
ECONOMICS--Business Thrive on Transparency (The Naked Corporation by Don Tapscott and David Ticoll); Challenge Ahead for Detroit Automakers (The End of Detroit by Micheline Maynard); Waking Up to the Senior Worker

May-June 2004 Obituary:
Indian Futurist Rashmi Mayur

May-June 2004 Optimistic Outlooks:
Fewer Shark Attacks; Safer Workplaces; Graduating into the Peace Corps; Benefits of Pessimism

 March-April 2004

March-April 2004 Tomorrow in Brief
Practical Uses for Mind Research; Compulsive Spending in Younger Generations; More Women in the Boardroom; Diversity Could Protect Computers; Talking Trash Cans

March-April 2004 World Trends & Forecasts
ECONOMICS—Fear and Loathing in the Virtual Workforce; Global Wage Gap Is Closing (The New Geography of Global Income by Glenn Firebaugh)
DEMOGRAPHY—The Graying of Latin America; India's Disappearing Females
GOVERNMENT—Water Without War; Models for Global Governance (Turbulent Waters by Ralph C. Bryant)
SOCIETY—Reexamining Intimacy; Religious Upsurge in Vietnam; Saving Our Voices (Voice Academy)
TECHNOLOGY—Binocular Telescope Puts Heavens in Focus; Nanoguitar Is Music to Engineers' Ears; Nanotech vs. Biohazards (Argonne National Lab)
ENVIRONMENT—Saving Nature's Medicine Chest (snail toxins yield medical breakthroughs); Britain's Disappearing Birds (Birds, Scythes, and Combines by Michael Shrubb); Modifying the Weather to Combat Drought; Locating Oil Spill Sources

 January-February 2004

January-February 2004 Tomorrow in Brief
3-D TV: Closer to Reality?; A Calmer Sun May Reduce Global Warming; Nanotech Aids Antiaging Research; Water-Powered Batteries; Predicting Terrorist Attacks

January-February 2004 World Trends & Forecasts
SOCIETY—Resources for Peace (Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage by Steven A. LeBlanc)
ECONOMICS—Global Demand for Fish Outstrips Supplies (Outlook for Fish to 2020, International Food Policy Research Institute, WorldFish Center), New Respect for Middle Managers (Vicki TenHaken, Hope College); Speeding Up Experiments (Experimentation Matters by Stefan H. Thomke)
DEMOGRAPHY—Health and Happiness (Sheldon Cohen, Psychosomatic Medicine, Psychological Science; Cristina Fortes, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics); Measuring People's Well-Being (Sarah Gueldner, Index of Field Energy, Binghamton University); Europe's Cancer Gap (Michel P. Coleman, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
TECHNOLOGY—Humanoid Robots: Functional and Fun (Honda Motor Co., ASIMO); Biosensors for Underwear (Philips Research; V-TAM, French Technology Press Office)
ENVIRONMENT—More Trouble for Coral Reefs (University of East Anglia; Deborah McArdle, University of California-Santa Barbara; Rick Grosberg, UC-Davis); Indoor Air Pollution Is Worse Than Ever (European Union Joint Research Center, European Commission); Fight Fire with Film Forecast (Janice Coen, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Anthony Vodacek, Rochester Institute of Technology)
GOVENMENT—Hype, Spin, Puffery, and Lies: Should We Be Scared? (Media Mythmakers by Benjamin Radford); Measuring the Progress of Peace (U.S. General Acounting Office); Renewing Cities and Suburbs (various sources cited in Future Survey, August 2003)

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 November-December 2003

November-December 2003 Tomorrow in Brief
Is the Universe Hitting Menopause?, House of Rubbish, CPR Made Easy, Computers Will Master Their Masters' Needs, Better Music through Science

November-December 2003, World Trends & Forecasts
DEMOGRAPHY—Preventing Child Deaths; High Growth in Recreational Areas
ECONOMICS—Megaprojects and Megamistakes; Globalization from the Top Down
ENVIRONMENT—Climate Change Threatens Food Supplies; Britain Buzzes with New Wildlife; French Firms Fight Oil Slicks
GOVERNMENT—A Model for Fighting AIDS
SOCIETY—Where, Oh Where Have the Good Old Songs Gone?; Policing the Language Police
TECHNOLOGY—Modeling Internet Traffic; Programming Matter: A Possible Future

November-December 2003, Books in Brief
The State of Thinking Ahead (2003 State of the Future by Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon); The Long Goodbye: The End of Life on Earth (The Life and Death of Planet Earth by Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee)

September-October 2003

September-October 2003, Tomorrow in Brief
Childless Seniors, Can We Stick Like Geckos?, Fireflies Help Fight Cancer, Wearable Power, Predicting the Wind

September-October 2003, World Trends & Forecasts
DEMOGRAPHY—Fewer Refugees, More Displaced Persons (Vital Signs 2003, Worldwatch); Cohabitation Breakups Rise (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)
SOCIETY—The Holistic Future of Aging by Aviv Shahar
ENVIRONMENT—The Growing Water Crisis (World Water and Food to 2025; International Food Policy Research Institute); U.S. Energy Demand Continues Upswing (U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration)
ECONOMICS—Money and Brains (ultimatum game; Princeton; behavioral economics; The New Financial Order by Robert Shiller); Counting Intangible Assets (IPOs; Invisible Advantage by Jonathan Low and Pam Cohen Calafut); "Mini-Jobs" Grow in Germany (German Embassy Press Office)
GOVERNMENT—Innovation Village (Welsh Development Agency, Swansea, Port Tawe); Government of the Apathetic, for the Apathetic (Stealth Democracy by John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse)
TECHNOLOGY—New System Reads Body Language (Silent Talker, University of Manchester); Plasma Sterilization (Old Dominion University, University of California-San Diego; Institute of Physics); Artificial Nacre Developed (Oklahoma State University, National Science Foundation, mother-of-pearl)

September-October 2003, Obituary
Doug Michels ("Doug Michels: Visionary Architect"; Project Bluestar, Hyperion Project, Dollennium 2000, Cadillac Ranch)

September-October 2003, Books in Brief
Improving Planning in the Real World (Assumption-Based Planning by James A. Dewar; reviewed by Kenneth W. Harris); The Science of Feelings (Well-Being, edited by Daniel Kahneman, Ed Diener, and Norbert Schwarz)

July-August 2003

July-August 2003 Tomorrow in Brief:
Power from nanolight; Alternatives to eye drops; Tarantulas aid rain-forest watchers; Turning lake gas into energy source; Eyeglasses with computers; Sexual-health crisis

July-August 2003 World Trends & Forecasts
ENVIRONMENT — As Arctic Ice Melts, Polar Bears Starve; Africa's Need for Biotechnology
TECHNOLOGY — Nanotech Advances in Next 15 years; Engineers' Forecasts For Technology
GOVERNMENT — Britons Distrust Government on Key Risk Issues; Trend Analysis: Keeping Older Workers on the Job
DEMOGRAPHY — Population Growth Slows; More Americans Live Alone
ECONOMICS — Huge Wealth Transfer Predicted; Strength in Small Business; Economics Lab Simulates Scenarios
SOCIETY — Genetically Engineered Happiness; No Future in Science?

July-August 2003 Books in Brief
Democracy's Prospects Linked to Labor
(The Future of the American Labor Movement by Hoyt N. Wheeler)
Using Evolution To Design Software
(Machine Nature: The Coming Age of Bio-Inspired Computing by Moshe Sipper)
Catalog of the Future
(Tech TV's Catalog of Tomorrow: Trends Shaping Your Future edited by Andrew Zolli)

May-June 2003

May-June 2003 Tomorrow in Brief:
Nanotech Could Bring CFCs Back to Earth; Saving the Banana; Aromatherapy Fights Dementia; Airline Seats That Say "Get Up"; Pictures You Can Walk Through (fog wall)

May-June 2003 World Trends & Forecasts:
SOCIETY—From Virtual Communities to Smart Mobs; Seniors Need Options for Learning
GOVERNMENT—War Crimes Against Nature
TECHNOLOGY—Simulating Earth's Systems
ECONOMICS—Alternatives to Growing Drugs
ENVIRONMENT—Nature Threatened by Shrinking Households; Sustainable Use of the Oceans; Dead Trees Add to Global Warming
DEMOGRAPHY—Mapping Poverty; Making Sex Education More Effective

May-June 2003 Obituaries:
Orville Freeman
Duane Smith

March-April 2003

March-April 2003 Tomorrow in Brief:
Data Dump from Space; Energy or Fish? Cooking with Light and Vacuum, Detecting Skin Cancer; Singing Computer Bugs

March-April 2003 World Trends & Forecasts:
ECONOMICS—The Impending Jobs Crisis; Technologies Benefiting Business
SOCIETY—High-Tech Thrives Where Gays Live [box: Technology, Talent, Tolerance, and Creativity: How U.S. Cities Compare]
ENVIRONMENT—Natural Disasters on the Rise; Fighting Invading Species
GOVERNMENT—Testing the Limits of Tolerance
TECHNOLOGY—Robots with Emotions; New Alarms about Pesticide Resistance
DEMOGRAPHY—Lifestyle Diseases Strike New Targets [box: Cardiovascular Success Stories]; Promoting Condoms for AIDS Prevention

March-April 2003 Books in Brief:
Assessing Predictions, Yesterday and Today (The Next Hundred Years ... Then and Now by Robert H. Cartmill)
Handbook for Strategic Planners (Strategic Planning for Smart Leadership by William J. Austin)
How to Think Ahead—And Stay Ahead (The Seeds of Innovation by Elaine Dundon); box: Twenty Trends to Spark Ideas

 January-February 2003

January-February 2003 Tomorrow in Brief
The South's Stroke Belt; Majoring in Debt; Rain Forests: Good News and Bad News; Nanobatteries; Cleaning Up E-Waste

January-February 2003 World Trends & Forecasts
TECHNOLOGY—Walking: A New Step for Security; Robotic Intelligence Measures Up; Stopping Cyberattacks
SOCIETY—Success without College
GOVERNMENT—Water Pressure Builds Worldwide [box: Hot Spots for Water Wars]
DEMOGRAPHY—Predicting Obesity; Asia's Youth Population Is Growing
ENVIRONMENT—Four Different Versions of the Environmental Future [box: Four Scenarios for Ecosystems Pressured by Infrastructure]
ECONOMICS—Money's Digital Future; Win-Win Outcomes of Carbon Trading

January-February 2003 Books in Brief
What's Next for Business (What's Next? by Eamonn Kelly, Peter Leyden, and members of Global Business Network)
Technologies and the Coming Transformation (Our Molecular Future by Douglas Mulhall)
A Puritan Takes on Cyber Society (Habits of the High-Tech Heart by Quentin J. Schultze)

January-February 2003 Personal Futures
Surviving a Dangerous Future (A Paranoid's Ultimate Survival Guide by Patricia Barnes-Svarney and Thomas Eugene Svarney)
Being Your Own Boss (Not Just a Living by Mark Henricks)
Finding a Mate in the 21st Century (Finding a Mate in the 21st Century by Peter H. Friedlander and Veronique B. Susset)

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November-December 2002

November-December 2002, Tomorrow in Brief
Alfalfa's Bright Prospects; Virtual Meditation; Faster Hovercraft for Seaways; TV Literacy Program; Clothes Freshener

November-December 2002, World Trends & Forecasts
DEMOGRAPHY: The Pursuit of Health
ECONOMICS: Blurring the Line between Home and Work by John A. Challenger; The Mobile World
ENVIRONMENT: New Concern About Acid Rain; Shrinking Glaciers; Plastic Book Reinvents Recycling
GOVERNMENT: U.S. Jury System on Trial; Voters Shun Elections Worldwide; Expanding the European Union
SOCIETY—Losing Religion, Keeping Faith; Happy Marriage Makes for Happy Kids
TECHNOLOGY—Building a Better Pig; Space Mission for Nanosensors

November-December 2002 Books in Brief:
Annual Assessment of Goals and Challenges (2002 State of the Future by Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon)
Futures Studies in Higher Education (Advancing Futures: Futures Studies in Higher Education, edited by James A. Dator)

September-October 2002

September-October 2002 Tomorrow in Brief:
Gin with an Organic Twist; Africa's Hidden Water; Lifelong Voting; Growing Docket for World Court; Penguins in Peril; Cancer in Pets Is a Warning; Very Distant Learning

September-October 2002 World Trends & Forecasts:
TECHNOLOGY—A Light-Emitting Future (solid-state, LED, Sandia National Labs); Robotic Aircraft on Reconnaissance
SOCIETY—News in the Digital Age (Weblogs, Drudge Report, Online Journalism Review, Annenberg School); Calculating Risk (breast cancer mammogram screening, Calculated Risks, Gerd Gigerenzer)
DEMOGRAPHY—Childhood Asthma Rises in Europe, U.S. (Fernando Martinez, Arizona Respiratory Center), The Cost of Pediatric Asthma in the United States [box]; Cities Rated Safer Than Suburbs (William Lucy, Univeristy of Virginia, traffic fatalities, homocides)
GOVERNMENT—Legal Personhood for Animals (Drawing the Line, Steven Wise, gorillas, dolphins, rights), Practical Autonomy Scale [box]; Negotiating vs. Regulating (reducing pollution)
ENVIRONMENT—Solving New York's Garbage Problems (Fresh Kills, Earth Policy Institute); Tracking Impacts of Climate Change (hyperspectral imaging, Donald Potts)
ECONOMICS—The New Meaning of Work (Charles Handy, The Elephant and the Flea)

September-October 2002 Books in Brief:
Scenario Planning in a Multicultural World (Creating Better Futures by James Ogilvy)
Social Scientists Ponder the Future (What the Future Holds edited by Richard N. Cooper and Richard Layard)

July-August 2002

July-August 2002 Tomorrow in Brief:
Invisible Fences for Cows; Killing Anthrax at Home; Cold Virus May Fight Cancer; Listening to Volcanoes; New Uses for Chicken Feathers

July-August 2002 World Trends & Forecasts:
TECHNOLOGY—Wear Your Own Power Source; Building Biospheres for Space Living; Nanotech Warriors
INNOVATION AND IMPACT—Personal Transporter (Segway Human Transporter, Ginger)
ECONOMICS—Gloomy Future for U.S. Capitalism? [Chart: Growing Income Gap]
ENVIRONMENT—Extreme Weather on the Horizon; Measuring Nature's Productivity
SOCIETY—Science Pursues Happiness
GOVERNMENT—Making Government Work Better [Chart: Government Management's "Hits" and "Misses"
DEMOGRAPHY—Teen Drinking is on the Rise; The Childless Revolution

July-August 2002 Books in Brief:
What We Lose with Species Loss (The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson)
Economic Foresight for an Age of Uncertainty (Understanding Economic Forecasts edited by David F. Hendry and Neil R. Ericsson)
Preparing a Vision Statement (The Wilder Nonprofit Field Guide to Crafting Effective Mission and Vision Statements by Emil Angelica)

July-August 2002 Personal Futures:
Finding the Right Job

MAY-JUNE 2002

May-June 2002 Tomorrow in Brief:
Search for Life Focuses on Jupiter Moon; Cocoa Farming Empowers Women; Fire Ants Threaten California; Teaching Ethics via Sports; The Bionic Man Cometh?

May-June 2002 World Trends & Forecasts
SOCIETY—"Soundsmithing" in the Digital Music Future [by Guy V. Briggs]; The University of the Future
ECONOMICS—Tomorrow's Job Titles
DEMOGRAPHY—Trends in Global Obesity
TECHNOLOGY—How the Space Station Will Benefit Earthlings [by Brian Duffy]
ENVIRONMENT—Running Out of Oil; Cooling Trend in Antarctica
GOVERNMENT—Personal Investments Could Shrink Government; Making Activism Work

May-June 2002 Obituary: John W. Gardner

May-June 2002 Books in Brief:
Thinking Big about the Future (The Best That Money Can't Buy by Jacque Fresco)
Learning from Leading Innovators (New Ideas About New Ideas by Shira P. White)
Smart or Lucky? (Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb)

MARCH-APRIL 2002

March-April 2002 Tomorrow in Brief:
Breath Monitor For Smokers; The Biology of Laughter, Lost-Object Detector; More Jobs in Renewable Energy; Greener Surroundings Nurture Kids' Minds

March-April 2002 World Trends & Forecasts
ENVIRONMENT—Tree cutting harms water supplies; Good news on the Hudson River
TECHNOLOGY—Breakthroughs in Plastics
SOCIETY—Psychiatry on the couch
DEMOGRAPHY—The Global Epidemic of Drug Resistance
GOVERNMENT—Progress against corruption; Anticipating civil wars
ECONOMICS—The rise of the knowledge manager

March-April 2002 Books in Brief
Handbook for Forecasters (Principles of Forecasting edited by J. Scott Armstrong)
New Age Heroes (Visionaries: People and Ideas to Change Your Life edited by Jay Walljasper, Jon Spayde, and the editors of Utne Reader)
Clashing Generations (When Generations Collide by Lynne C. Lancaster and David Stillman)

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2002

January-February 2002 Tomorrow in Brief: Safeguarding water supply; Electricity from wood; Rebuilding Buddha; Stronger waves in California; Heartbreak of champions

January-February 2002 World Trends & Forecasts
TECHNOLOGY—The telesurgery revolution; Ultrasound speeds up beer brewing
ENVIRONMENT—A hydrogen future
GOVERNMENT—Will China collapse?
SOCIETY—Charities of the future
ECONOMICS—The Blended Economy
DEMOGRAPHY—Reducing global mortality

January-February 2002 Books in Brief
Pessimism as a Defense (The Positive Power of Negative Thinking by Julie K. Norem)
Getting Growth in Developing Nations (The Elusive Quest for Growth by William Easterly)

2001
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NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2001

November-December 2001Tomorrow in Brief: Cloning embryos; Organic foods; Tobacco and developing economies; Demand for financial mathematicians; Soy-powered aircraft

November-December 2001 World Trends & Forecasts
TECHNOLOGY— Bomb Defusers Get Smarter
Aerial Rescue Platform
DEMOGRAPHY— Megacities of the Future
Teen Drinking
GOVERNMENT—Power Politics Trumps Globalization
ENVIRONMENT— Healthier Homes Envisioned
Improving Water Quality
ECONOMICS—Is Globalization a Myth?, Victor Ferkiss
Surviving the Downturn: Step Back Before You Fall
SOCIETY—A Shift in Moral Authority

 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2001

September-October 2001 Tomorrow in Brief: New Device for Hearing Impaired; Polio Eradication: The Last Steps; Mecca for Non-Muslims?; B2B Grows Among Women; New Test for Cervical Cancer

September-October 2001 World Trends & Forecasts:
ENVIRONMENT—Wetlands: Going, Going...Gone?; Mixing Farms and Wildlife
DEMOGRAPHY—Aging vs. Antiaging; The Web-Connected Generation
ECONOMICS—Whither Job Security?; Making Web Users Pay
TECHNOLOGY—Mission From Mars; Edible Vaccines
SOCIETY—The Cyber Children Have Arrived; Making the Case for Repression
GOVERNMENT—The Coming Resource Wars; Guarding E-Documents and Identity

September-October 2001 Books in Brief:

• Celebrating "Earth's Friendly Genius" (Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the New Millennium edited by Thomas T.K. Zung)
• Forecasting Techniques for Managers (The Forward-Focused Organization by Stephen C. Harper)
• Scenario Planning in Depth (Creating Futures by Michel Godet)
• Whither Unification? (Transforming Europe edited by Maria Green Cowles et al.)
• Step-by-Step Planning That Works (More Profitable Planning by Richard Muther)
• Nurturing Future Citizens (Citizenship for the Future: A Practical Classroom Guide) by David Hicks

September-October 2001 Consultants Corner:
Toffler Associates Reach for "Stars"

JULY-AUGUST 2001

July-August 2001 Tomorrow in Brief: Online Textbooks; Combating Female Circumcision; One Billion Elderly; Merging Cameras and Cell Phones; Lube Jobs for Nanomachines

July-August 2001 World Trends & Forecasts:
DEMOGRAPHY—Poisons On Our Plates (food poisoning)
ENVIRONMENT—Britain's Green Agenda by Tony Blair
SOCIETY—Investing in Human Relations; The Chaotic Brain
TECHNOLOGY—The Promise of Internet2
GOVERNMENT—Win-Win Government; Cyberactivism 101
ECONOMICS—Evaluating Good Corporate Citizenship; Nursing Crisis Is Foreseen; Life Goals on Hyperspeed

July-August 2001 Future Active: Healthy Future Sought for Black Americans (Future Focus 2020, Wake Forest University, Nat Irvin II); Building Skills for Europe's Future

July-August 2001 Consultants Corner: Consult-A-Kid (Innovation Focus, Inventing with Kids, Margaret Owens)

 MAY-JUNE 2001

May-June 2001 Tomorrow in Brief: Wearable Phones, Decontaminating Rivers After Floods; Paying for Health Care; Generating Energy from Ocean Waves; Emoticons Give Way to Stand-Ins.

May-June 2001 World Trends & Forecasts:

GOVERNMENT—The World in 2015 (CIA National Intelligence Council, Global Trends 2015); Key Trend Areas for 2015 [box]; Four Alternative Global Scenarios [box]
TECHNOLOGY—Securing Our Information (Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Johns Hopkins University)
ENVIRONMENT—India's Environmental Challenges (Rashmi Mayur); Hunting Genes in Russia (Diversa); Fish Farming Gains on Cattle Ranching (Worldwatch)
DEMOGRAPHY—Minority Health (NIH, Census Bureau); Health Disparities Among U.S. Populations" [box] (Health and Human Services)
ECONOMICS—Making Intangible Assets More Tangible (Harvard Management Update, Jack Welch)
SOCIETY—Shifting Social Values (Intelligence Factory); Lifelong Learning in Taiwan (Taipei Journal)

May-June 2001 Books in Brief:
Managing Corporate Crises (Managing Corporate Crises Before They Happen by Ian I. Mitroff); Two (or More) Heads Really Are Better (Creative Collaborations by Vera John-Steiner)

May-June 2001 Future Active:
Charging Innovation Trends (European Trend Chart on Innovation: Innovation Policy in Europe 2000, European Commission)

May-June 2001 Consultants Corner
Thinking Paradoxically (Jerry L. Fletcher, Higher Performance Dynamics; University of Stellenbosch; Institute for Futures Research, South Africa)

MARCH-APRIL 2001

Mar-Apr 2001 Tomorrow in Brief:
Test-Tube Pancreas (frogs, organ regeneration, University of Tokyo, Japan Science and Technology Foundation); Electric Cars Speed Up (Bluebird Electric Project); Earthquake Suite (Coventry University, Navin Sood); E-Resumes Preferred (OfficeTeam, www.officeteam.com); Weighing Trucks in Motion (Minnesota Department of Transportation); Fallout from Economic Progress (traffic accidents, Vietnam)

Mar-Apr 2001 World Trends & Forecasts:
DEMOGRAPHY—What Children Need But May Not Get (Berry Brazelton, Stanley Greenspan, The Irreducible Needs of Children; Trends in the Well-being of America's Children & Youth 1999); The Rise of the Millennials (Neil Howe, William Strauss, Millennials Rising)

ECONOMICS—Adapting to the Adaptables (Roger E. Herman); Transnational Investing (UNCTAD, 2000 World Investment Report; border-crossing industries)
GOVERNMENT—Lawyers Face Future Shock (Seize the Future, American Bar Association; whereas.com)
ENVIRONMENT—Anticipating Our Environmental Future (Something New Under the Sun, J.R. McNeill)
SOCIETY—Polling the Planet (Planet Project, Harris International, 3Com; RoperStarch, values)
TECHNOLOGY—Touchy-Feely Robots (haptic robotics, Johns Hopkins University, Allison Okamura); Ultrasonic Therapy (University of Washington, Northwest Science & Technology); Immortality for Human Skin? (University of wisconsin-Madison, Lynn Allen-Hoffmann); Pay Phones for the Wireless Age (American Public Communications Council)

Mar-Apr 2001 Future Active:
Toward a New Age of Meaning (Van Wishard, Between Two Ages); Thousand-Year Futures (Foundation For the Future, Walter Kistler, Olugbenga Adesida, Julius Dasch, Jay Forrester, Elisabet Sahtouris, Gregory Stock)

Mar-Apr 2001 Consultants Corner:
Techniques for Forecasting (Technology Futures Inc., www.tfi.com); Strategic vs. Long-Range Planning (Henry Luke, www.lukevision.com)

Mar-Apr 2001 Books in Brief:
Rethinking What It Means to Be Gifted (Liberating Everyday Genius by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen); Methods for Community Planning (The Community Planning Handbook by Nick Wates)

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2001

Jan-Feb 2001 Tomorrow in Brief:
Dinner Bell for Fish (fish farming, Jonathan Lovell, acoustics, University of Plymouth); Life Expectancy Exceed Expectations (National Institute on Aging, Shripad Tuljapurkar, Nature); Musical Tablecloth (Dianne Jones, WRONZ EuraLab, electronic fabric, textile); Respect for Teachers Is Growing (Harris Poll, prestigious professions); Farmers Markets on the Rise (USDA)

Jan-Feb 2001 World Trends & Forecasts:
GOVERNMENT—The Century of Democracy (Larry Diamond, Hoover Institution, Freedom House); Terrorists: Hype and Reality (Hype or Reality? edited by Brad Roberts, chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute)

SOCIETY—Why Nations Develop Differently (Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress edited by Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington); Passing On Religious Values (Purdue University, Lynn Okagaki)

ECONOMICS—Asia in the New Economy (World Economic Forum Asia Pacific Economic Summit, www.weforum.org)

ENVIRONMENT—Repairing Earth's Ecosystems (World Resources 2000-2001, World Resources Institute, U.N. Development Program, U.N. Environment Program, World Bank); A Private High-Rise (Skypad Technologies, www.skypadtech.com)

DEMOGRAPHY—Is the World Kicking the Cigarette Habit? (Worldwatch Institute, www.worldwatch.org)

TECHNOLOGY—Nanotubes Make Handy Devices (low-friction bearing, John Cumings, University of California Berkeley, www.berkeley.edu/news/index.html); Fuel Cells Grow More Practical (PFC, David Haberman, DCH Technology, www.DCHT.com)

Jan-Feb 2001 Future Active:
Scouting for Trends (Young & Rubicam, Intelligence Factory, Trendscouts, www.intelligencefactory.com); Assessing School Reforms (RAND, National Assessment of Educational Progress, www.rand.org)

Jan-Feb 2001 Consultants Corner:
Scenarios and Decision Making (Terry J. van der Werff, www.globalfuture.com); Identifying Career Unrest (Helen Harkness, www.career-design.com) 

2000
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NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2000

Nov-Dec 2000 Tomorrow in Brief:
kid-locating device (ParkWatch, www.wherenet.com); warmer climate means more snow (Nature Science Update, http://helix.nature.com/nsu/000803/000803<\->4.html); a locust goes to the movies (robots, Star Wars, visual systems, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, www.ncl.uk/press.office); reducing hospital stays (OECD Health Data 2000, www.oecd.org/media/publish/pb00<\->15a.htm); disposable hearing aid (Songbird Medical Inc.)

Nov-Dec2000 World Trends & Forecasts:
ENVIRONMENT—Farmers Harvest the Wind by Lester R. Brown; Drinkable Seawater

TECHNOLOGY—Genes in Space

DEMOGRAPHY—Fewer Welfare Recipients; New Estimates of Alzheimer's Suffers; Reducing Side Effects of Antipsychotic Drugs

ECONOMICS—The Downside of Shareholder Value; Eight Rules for Going Global

SOCIETY—Battling Pseudoscience; High-Tech Conflict Resolution

GOVERNMENT—Ethics in the Genetic Age

Nov-Dec2000 Books in Brief:

Underground Architecture (review of Recovering America by Malcolm Wells)
Scenarios for the Year 3000 (review of State of the Future at the Millennium by Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon)

Nov-Dec2000 Future Active:
Futures Research as an Industry; Engines of Creation; Forecasts for Telecommunications; Wendell Bell Receives Futures Award; South Africa Starts Technology Think Tank; Attention Utopia Teachers; Tourists Go Nuclear!

Nov-Dec2000 Obituary:
James C. Stephens

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2000

Sep-Oct2000 Tomorrow in Brief:
electronic ventriloquism (virtual sound, Institute of Sound Vibration Research, University of Southampton, www.isvr.soton.ac.uk); computer-free Internet access (www.elcotel.com); forget your password? use your finger (www.impleo.com); silk-screening on concrete; genetic library speeds up progress (www.diversa.com)

Sep-Oct2000 World Trends & Forecasts:
SOCIETY—new words in English (Twentieth Century Words by John Ayto); teen sex trends (www.childtrends.org); support groups are growing rapidly (www.apa.org)

GOVERNMENT—how governments can promote wealth (Power and Prosperity by Mancur Olson); the headaches of being a superpower (On Being a Superpower—And Not Knowing What to Do About It by Seymour Deitchman); fax signatures

TECHNOLOGY—beyond the genome (J. Craig Venter, Celera Genomics, proteome, proteins, pharmacogenomics); doctors team up with computers (Healthcare Information Systems edited by Adi Armoni)

ECONOMICS—Internet will aid farmers (Paul Rux); hypergrowth for e-commerce? (www.forrester.com)

ENVIRONMENT—clash of trends: disappearing water vs. super farms (Worldwatch Institute, Lester R. Brown, Feeding the World by Vaclav Smil, Norman Borlaug)

DEMOGRAPHY—transmigrants: living in multiple cultures (Nina Glick Schiller, The Handbook of International Migration); senior workers on the rise (www.greenthumb.org); cyber citizenship gains in developing world (www.un.org/esa/coordination/ecosoc/itforum)

Sep-Oct2000 Future Active:
hail to the chiefs (job titles, Roger Herman, Joyce Gioia, www.herman.net); Russian academy for futures studies; building civilizations (The Business of Civilization Building by Richard Spady, http://forumfoundation.org)

Sep-Oct2000 Books in Brief:
rousing creativity (Rousing Creativity by Floyd Hurt); thinking big about humanity's future in space (Our Cosmic Future by Nikos Prantzos); is globalization inevitable? (The End of Internationalism or World Governance? by J. Orstrom Moller)

Sep-Oct2000 Personal Futures:
breakthrough parenting (Breakthrough Parenting by Jayne A. Major, www.breakthroughparenting.com); cyberadvocacy (The Net Effect by Daniel Bennet and Pam Fielding, www.e-advocates.com)

JULY-AUGUST 2000

Tomorrow in Brief: microwave tonsillectomy (Dr. Mansoor Madani, www.snorenet.com); future shopping carts (www.tesco.co.uk); mini camera rides on robot's back (www.exavision.com); overcoming dyslexia (Kurzweil 3000, Lemout & Hauspie Speech Products, www.ihsl.com); see the people you chat with (videochat room; www.cuseemeworld.com).

Jul-Aug2000 World Trends & Forecasts

TECHNOLOGY—pigs may end organ shortage (David K.C. Cooper, Robert P. Lanza, Xeno, xenotransplants); web products going mobile (Mark Stefik, The Internet Edge); using light to heal (photodynamic therapy, Destiny Pharma, www.destiny-pharma.co.uk)

DEMOGRAPHY—aging and disabilities (glaucoma, hearing impairment, macular degeneration, American Health Assistance Foundation, www.ahaf.org, National Academy on an Aging Society, www.agingsociety.org); many parents hope for girls (daughter preference, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Isis International Manila)

ENVIRONMENT—impacts of sprawl (Suburban Nation, Andres Duany); environmental issues to watch for (U.N. Development and Human Rights Section); biotechnology and future food supply (International Food Policy Research Institute, www.ifpri.org, National Academies, www.nationalacademies.org)

GOVERNMENT—anonymity and the Internet (Mark S. Frankel, AAAS); corruption-loss insurance (World Bank, Kazakhstan); automated warships (Purdue University, Scott Sudhoff)

ECONOMICS—global living standards improve (the Conference Board, World Bank, Romania, Bulgaria,); the all-consuming corporation (Dave Arnott, Corporate Cults)

SOCIETY—the case for liberal arts (Roger Herman, roger@herman.net, Hiram College, Grinnell; reality check for liberal arts students [box] (Tek.Xam, technical exam); office romance (John Challenger, Challenger, Gray & Christmas)

Jul-Aug2000 Books in Brief: physicians as futurists (Death Foretold by Nicholas A. Christakis; reviewed by Lane Jennings); is time an illusion? (The End of Time by Julian Barbour)

Jul-Aug2000 Future Active: nice vices excite researchers (Future Concept Lab, www.futureconceptlab.com, oxygen salon); 10 keys to success as a futurist (Arnold Brown, weinerbrown@compuserve.com, FRQ summer 1999)

MAY-JUNE 2000

mj2000 Tomorrow in Brief: tagging codfish; new words wait for official approval; slushy-drink technology may cool cities (Argonne National Lab, www.anl.gov); new convenience foods (conewich, cone sandwich); carbonating cow manure (USDA, microbes, calcium carbonate)

mj2000 World Trends & Forecasts

DEMOGRAPHY—threats to children's health (new morbidities, Child Trends, American Academy of Pediatrics); predicting violence (Mosaic 2000, violent kids)

GOVERNMENT—superpowers: new rules for the old players (Robert A. Pastor, A Century's Journey); more money for basic science (Office of Science and Technology Policy, Twenty-First Century Research Fund)

ENVIRONMENT—native Americans vs. environmentalists (Shepard Krech, The Ecological Indian, stereotypes, Iron Eyes Cody); recycling water safely (Aquasaver, toilet)

TECHNOLOGY—lowering the cost of space flight (Les Johnson, tel. 1-205-544-0614, e-mail Les.Johnson@msfc.nasa.gov, NASA, tethers, ProSEDS); wireless devices rival sci-fi (Ron Schneiderman, A Manager's Guide to Wireless Telecommunications); an unconventional helicopter (Firebird); goggles offer wide-screen TV (Eye-Trek, Olympia)

ECONOMICS—optimistic outlook on the U.S. economy (Brian Wesbury, The New Era of Wealth, Edward Yardeni, Deutsche Bank); buying time with e-dollars (electronic shopping, e-tail, Douglas Aldrich, Mastering the Digital Marketplace); loyalty fuels increases in productivity (Challenger, Gray & Christmas)

SOCIETY—aliens: a social phenomenon (Joel Achenbach, Captured by Aliens); speaking different Englishes (David Crystal, The Workings of Language, Rebecca Wheeler); urban renewal through sports (Manchester, stadium)

mj2000 Books in Brief: the age of collaborative work (The Future of Work by Charles Grantham); improving your planning skills (Powerful Planning Skills by Peter Capezio)

mj2000 Future Active: humanity 3000 report (Walter Kistler, Foundation For the Future, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Walter Truett Anderson); quality of life indicators (Hazel Henderson, Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators)

MARCH-APRIL 2000

ma2000 Tomorrow in Brief: feminizing the stroller; high-speed trains for Britain; creative lawsuits (Marjorie Kelly, Business Ethics); cleaner power (Tampa Electric Co.); university partnerships (John Hoyle, Texas A&M)

ma2000 WORLD TRENDS & FORECASTS:

ECONOMICS—what's next for the economy (Gary Shilling, Deflation, David Elias, Dow 40,000); great management decisions (The 75 Greatest Management Decisions Ever Made...and 21 of the Worst, Stuart Crainer);

DEMOGRAPNY—another great migration (Heaven's Door, George Borjas); rise of singles (Brand Futures Group); unmarried motherhood (Census Bureau)

GOVERNMENT—governments become biocapitalists (The Coming Biotech Age, Richard Oliver); global economy makes taxing harder (UN); box: tax rates of various countries; new intellectual monopolies (Owning the Future, Seth Shulman)

TECHNOLOGY—Sir Arthur C. Clarke's technology timeline (Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!); the fastest spacecraft yet? (plasma sail, magnetic field sail; Robert Winglee, University of Washington)

ENVIRONMENT—deepwater oil: the final frontier? (Colin Campbell, Hubbert Center Newsletter); second tier cities arise (National Science Foundation; Second Tier Cities, Ann Markusen, Yong-Sook Lee); clean car from France (French Technology Press Office, CQFD Air Solution)

SOCIETY—living faster and faster (Faster, James Gleick); is your city kid friendly? (Zero Population Growth, ZPG, Rochester, Houston, San Francisco, St. Louis, Salem, Wichita)

ma2000 Books in Brief: the view ahead from down under (Futures for the Third Millennium by Richard Slaughter); the law of the Dow Jones Jungle (An S-shaped Trail to Wall Street by Theodore Modis); who's who tomorrow (A View from the Year 3000 by Arturo Kukeni or Michael Hart); Nasbitt attacks high tech intoxication (High Tech High Touch by John Naisbitt et al.)

ma2000 Personal Futures: working while retired (Don't Stop the Career Clock by Helen Harkenss); gene therapy for improving learning and memory? (Princeton University, Joe Tsien)

ma2000 Obit: Robert Theobald

ma2000 Future Active: UNESCO forms council on the future (Jerome Binde); Arlington Institute will monitor society's vital signs (John Petersen, Vital Signs Monitor); fads vs. trends (Brand Futures Group)

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2000

jf2000 Tomorrow in Brief: three-way vaccine for travelers; face-recognition security; world's tallest hotel is in ship shape; car in a briefcase; expanding the workplace vocabulary (Challenger, Gray & Christmas)

jf2000 World Trends & Forecasts:
SOCIETY—the rise of cyber civility (A Short History of Rudeness, Mark Caldwell)
ECONOMICS—cyberunions: organized labor goes online (AFL-CIO; CyberUnion, Arthur Shostak)
ENVIRONMENT—beaches vs. buildings (Against the Tide, Cornelia Dean); a report card for renewable energy (Resources for the Future)
DEMOGRAPHY—peers may help reduce teen pregnancy ("The State of World Population 1999," UNFPA); kids inherit parents' bad driving habits (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety)
GOVERNMENT—the internet alters politics (Foundation for Public Affairs)
TECHNOLOGY—high-tech clothes (French technology press office); preventing genetic disorders (Cornell University, JAMA, Kangpu Xu, Weill Medical College)

jf2000 Future Active: monitoring society's mood (Gabrielle Zerafa, Colmar Brunton Research); challenges for the next millennium (State of the Future 1999; Jerome C. Glenn, Millennium Project)

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DECEMBER 1999

dec99 Tomorrow in Brief: testing ripeness, toward smaller robots, electric cure for damp walls, hazards of height (Thomas Samaras, 1-858-576-9283, e-mail SamarasTT@aol.com]; mental-health crisis among elderly

dec99 World Trends & Forecasts:
ECONOMICS—small country strategies (Finland)
TECHNOLOGY—microbes recover oil (www.bnl.gov, 1-516-344-2345; BioCat, Setauket, NY)
DEMOGRAPHY—population boom in prison
ENVIRONMENT—solving water scarcity (Sandra Postel, Pillar of Sand)
GOVERNMENT—a reality check on entitlements (Nat'l. Academy on an Aging Society, 1-202-408-3375)
SOCIETY—rehabilitating criminals before they grow up (Gad Czudner, Small Criminals Among Us); online health fraud (www.ftc.gov, 1-202-382-4357)

dec99 Future Active: hudson institute's new commitment (Herbert London, Jane Kahn, 1-317-545-1000, www.hudson.org) ; national institute for the environment (Committee for the National Institute for the Environment, www.cnie.org; 1-202-530-5810)

NOVEMBER 1999

nov99 Tomorrow in Brief: soy gelatin dessert; smart pen; herbal remedies complicate surgery; who gets e-mail?; pollution-proof strollers?

nov99 World Trends & Forecasts:
GOVERNMENT—supporting innovation [national research labs], box: fruits of research and development
TECHNOLOGY—the end of blood shortages?
ECONOMICS—soaring CEO salaries, box: executives' pay vs. minimum wage; job titles for tomorrow's office workers
ENVIRONMENT—France builds a green school
SOCIETY—restoring the family [David Popenoe, Rutgers, America's Demographic Tapestry]; the elderly as caregivers
DEOGRAPHY—plummeting sperm counts cause concern, box: average sperm count of American and European men; drugs and life expectancy

nov99 Personal Futures: exercise shapes up your mind [American Psychological Association]; positive perceptions predict longer life [SCAN Health Plan]

nov99 Books in Brief: business finds renewal in turbulence [Positive Turbulence by Stanley S. Gryskiewicz]; views from the future's frontiers [Frontiers of the 21st Century edited by Howard F. Didsbury Jr.]

nov99 Future Active: forecasting the long-term climate [CLIVAR, UNESCO], McHale's center for integrative studies closes [Magda Cordell McHale, SUNY Buffalo]

OCTOBER 1999

oct99 Tomorrow in Brief: kids' camp teaches health; pet boom stirs concerns; new uses for native plants; smart cars for airports; big growth in little cities

oct99 World Trends & Forecasts:
SOCIETY—a nation of meddlers (Charles Edgley, Dennis Brissett); hands-on learning (modeling math and science)
TECHNOLOGY—shhh! engineers at work on noise; microchip implants closer to reality (Kevin Warwick, Reading University)
ENVIRONMENT—seeds of controversy (Dan Whipple, Monsanto, terminator seed, Roundup Ready); seals and satellites; the environmentally friendly office (World Resources Institute)
DEMOGRAPHY—obesity: a growing problem (Kumudini Mayur); demographic fatigue strains governments (Worldwatch)
ECONOMICS—the demise of blue-collar work (Dale Neef); investing demographically (Harry Dent)
GOVERNMENT—six safer cities (crime prevention, Fort Worth, Boston, Denver, New York, Hartford, San Diego); gamblers in cyberspace (Cato)

oct99 Books in Brief: "fusion" could power the future economy (Free Market Fusion by Glenn R. Jones); British pamphlets offer snack futures (Predictions series, Orion Publishing Group, Trafalgar Square)

oct99 Personal Futures: helping teens build life skills, 10 ways to say no (What Teens Need to Succeed by Peter Bensen et al.); writing benefits patients (JAMA); five-minute operation corrects eyesight (radio waves, farsightedness, Stanford, Edward Manche); earning degrees nontraditionally (John Bear and Mariah Bear)

AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1999

as99 Tomorrow in Brief: help wanted: creative thinkers; replacing sugar and fat; world's smallest brewery?; bomb-resistant suit; silicon scalpels

as99 World Trends & Forecasts:
TECHNOLOGY—manufacturing with molecular machines; genetic engineering gains U.S. acceptance
ECONOMICS—the buying and selling of dreams (box: 10 dream society jobs); France mints first euro coins
ENVIRONMENT—the frozen zoo; what tree loss costs
SOCIETY—the changing face of Protestantism in the United States (box: religious changes in America)
DEMOGRAPHY—protecting pedestrians; in brief: the 6 billionth child
GOVERNMENT—disaster-resistant communities; privacy vs. common good

as99 Books in Brief: boardrooms and war rooms (The WarRoom Guide to Competitive Intelligence by Steven M. Shaker and Mark P. Gembicki); two CD-ROMs for futurists (Futures Studies by Sohail Inayatullah and Paul Wildman; Futures Research Methodology edited by Jerome C. Glenn); making science less confusing (Technologies of Knowing by John Willinsky); electronic book offers visionary tale (A Tale of the Future by the Vision Center for Futures Creation, Natalie Dian, director)

as99 Future Active: Egypt will host millennium symposium (Millennium Project, Jerome C. Glenn); new future-oriented journal is launched (Colin R. Blackman, Foresight)

JUNE-JULY 1999

jj99 Tomorrow in Brief: wheelchair designed for the office; East Germans allergic to west's lifestyle; new hope for bone cancer patients; mobile movies; stethoscope covers stop germs

jj99 World Trends & Forecasts:
GOVERNMENT—preventing e-mail lawsuits; detecting land mines with computers
ECONOMICS—streetcars make comeback in Europe; the economic cost of drug abuse
DEMOGRAPHY—a gray wave of entrepreneurs; migration helps spread tuberculosis; opinion polls become trickier
TECHNOLOGY—diamonds promise new benefits; accident scenes beamed live to hospitals; the computerized kitchen
ENVIRONMENT—saving the forests; oil company discovers "elephants"
SOCIETY—predicting successful marriages; the end of the office party?

jj99 Looking Back: dow 10,000?

jj99 Personal Futures: antiaging diet [box: top 10 antioxidant foods]; creating your future: no excuses

MAY 1999

May99 Tomorrow in Brief: artificial reefs protect fish in hurricanes; college towns bring alumni back to stay; AIDS ravages southern Africa; electric tram combines best of bus, rail; cyber-fakers

May99 World Trends & Forecasts:
ECONOMICS-electronic currency: quick fix for cash crimes?; transformation of the investment industry (by Charles Bevis)
SOCIETY-a kinder, gentler look at deadbeat dads; culture joins the olympics
DEMOGRAPHY-improving the prospects for poor children
TECHNOLOGY-the hunt for mood genes; new biochip speeds diagnoses
GOVERNMENT-do-it-yourself governance?; seven most wanted diseases are targeted
ENVIRONMENT-the high cost of trawling; willows clean water, provide fuel

May99 obit: Glenn T. Seaborg

May99 Future Active: holiday might ease y2k tensions (millennium week, Alan F. Kay); futures compendium is published (21st Century, Graham T.T. Molitor)

APRIL 1999

Apr99 Tomorrow in Brief: quicker fix for auto breakdowns; smart box delivers the goods; prospecting for microbes in Mexico; thinkers vs. charmers; robotic rat sheds light on human brains

Apr99 World Trends & Forecasts:
ENVIRONMENT-flowers that fight pollution; rare animals benefit from biotechnology; solar-powered building debuts
TECHNOLOGY-food technologists have a blast; new fabric has many uses (3d fabric); ball bearings could boost spacecraft
GOVERNMENT-an alternative to litigation (box: 10 principles for conflict resolution); ziplane speeds Hawaii's traffic
DEMOGRAPHY-Young, poor, and forgotten (box: labor-market problems of out-of-school youth); no global village yet; world population nears 6 billion
SOCIETY-social programs that work; welfare may spark church-state conflict
ECONOMICS-digital engine powers new economy; the power and limits of microfinancing

Apr99 Books in Brief: a new level of civilization? (The New Renaissance by Douglas S. Robertson); world's fairs: a panorama of progress (World's Fairs and the End of Progress by Alfred Heller)

Apr99 Future Active: wireless threatens wireline services (Lawrence Vanston, Technology Futures Inc.); making workers more creative (Teresa Amabile, Harvard Business School).

MARCH 1999

mar99 Tomorrow in Brief: safer helmets; business to hire more teachers; internet benefits the deaf; fat farms spread to Britain; bouncing boots inspired by kangaroos; new uses for old tires

mar99 World Trends & Forecasts:
ENVIRONMENT—Invading species; golf courses become living laboratories
TECHNOLOGY—robotic subs will explore ocean depths; sound barriers can be beautiful; forecasting the Net by Peter F. Eder
GOVERNMENT—Cities learn to think small; funding for health research
ECONOMICS—cybertrends shaping tomorrow's marketplace; the emotionally intelligent worker
DEMOGRAPHY—generational shifts in values; lifestyle and cancer (Taiwan); more children live with grandparents
SOCIETY—U.S. press loses touch with the world; religious employees challenge companies

mar99 Books in Brief: thinking twice about new technology (Technology in Context by Ernest Braun); leading change in your organization (Breakaway Planning by Paul Levesque)

mar99 Future Active: cutting losses before disaster strikes (FEMA); future energy needs (Global Energy Perspectives)

FEBRUARY 1999

feb99 Tomorrow in Brief: Out-of-This-World Fragrances; Scanning Farm Animals; All the News That Fits Your Palm; Will Consoles Replace Desks?; New Workplace Vocabulary

feb99 World Trends & Forecasts:
TECHNOLOGY—Robots: Our Evolutionary Heirs?; Antibiotics and Superbugs
DEMOGRAPHY—Study Reveals Six Types of Workers; Americans Retire Earlier and Earlier
ECONOMICS—Helping People Escape Poverty; Too Many Life Scientists?; Nutriceuticals Become Hot Sellers; Cutting Red Tape in Europe
GOVERNMENT—Smart Bombs May Replace Nuclear Weapons; Identity Fraud Is Increasing; Age Discrimination Declines; Multipurpose Smart Card for Taiwan
SOCIETY—The Decline of Conversation; Missing Children
ENVIRONMENT—Will the Real Experts Please Stand Up?; Corporations Turn Green

feb99 Personal Futures: Gene Therapy for Blood Pressure; Praise Kids for Effort, Not Ability

JANUARY 1999

jan99 Tomorrow in Brief: cameras see through disguises (Mandrake; London Press Service); chili peppers repel zebra mussles (New Mexico Tech; Great Lakes); the sweet scent of a new day (aroma alarm clock, aromalarm, Essential Time); employers combat cybershirkers (Web censorship, Peter Eder, Wahlstrom); a hair solution for oil spills (Ned Rozell, Phillip McCrory, Exxon Valdez); now you can write like your hero (da Vinci, Twain, Mediatic, handwriting font)

jan99 World Trends & Forecasts:
DEMOGRAPHY—bringing out the best in generation x (misconceptions, Bruce Tulgan, Manager's Pocket Guide to Generation X); the dangers of passive smoking (ASH, secondhand smoke); in brief: time-flexing workers staff internet businesses (Challenger, Gray & Christmas; 24-hour work)
SOCIETY—what science has yet to discover (John Maddox, What Remains To Be Discovered; physics, DNA); a nation of gourmets (Art Siemering, quality foods); in brief: web sites sneak data from kids (Indiana University, Walter Gantz)
ECONOMICS—molecular farming (genetically engineered plants, shipping fever, Ag-West Biotech)
TECHNOLOGY—modern alchemy yields superstrong metal (metallic glass; Todd Hufnagel, Johns Hopkins, French Technology Press Office); doctors may feel their patients' pain (InterSense, virtual patient, virtual reality)
GOVERNMENT—politics in cyberspace (democracy online, Rutgers, Benjamin Barber)
ENVIRONMENT—making polluters pay (perverse subsidies, Roodman, Worldwatch, The Natural Wealth of Nations, Norman Myers)

jan99 Personal Futures: career advice for kids: play more (Career Intelligence, Barbara Moses)

jan99 obit: Hollis Vail

1998
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DECEMBER 1998

dec98 Tomorrow in Brief: flying saucers attack pests (USDA-ARS); a blue millennium (Brand Futures Group, Young & Rubicam); boom in smart cards (GPT Card Technology); super vegetables (Art Siemering, Trend/Wire; Betasweet carrot, orange cucumber); Americans' favorite sports (recreation, treadmills, in-line skating, extreme sports)

dec98 World Trends & Forecasts:
DEMOGRAPHY—cures for social phobia, shyness around the world (Shy Children, Phobic Adults, Deborah Beidel, Samuel Turner); two billion potential parents (Population Reference Bureau); new opportunities for disabled people (Brand Futures Group, Young & Rubicam, Marian Salzman)
TECHNOLOGY—high-tech materials for the next millennium (DOE, spallation neutron source); translator for sign language; tiny needles deliver medicine painlessly (Georgia Tech)
ENVIRONMENT—airborne birth control for elephants (University of Georgia, Richard Fayrer-Hosken); good news and bad about the environment (World Resources 1998-99); tree plantations are taking root (Worldwatch, Vital Signs 1998)
SOCIETY—the new individualism (Me generation; Daniel Yankelovich); jobs hurt school performance (School Board Association)
GOVERNMENT—witnesses: a weak link in the judicial system (American Psychological Association; Science News, Deborah Runkle, American Association for the Advancement of Science); keeping terrorists at bay (U.S. Institute of Peace, Jessica Stern); improving city government (Stephen Goldsmith, Indianapolis, The Twenty-First Century City)
ECONOMICS—the blurred economy (Blur, Stan Davis); sanitation have-nots increase (toilet gap, Worldwatch, Vital Signs 1998); boom in private security (Freedonia group)

dec98 Books in Brief: how the west will be lost (Staring Into Chaos, Bruce Brander); will death become unnecessary? (Immortality, Ben Bova)

dec98 Future Active: alternative approaches to health care (Institute for Alternative Futures; Oriental medicine, acupuncture, chiropractor, homeopathy); the global 2030 project (Kenneth Hunter, Harrison Program, University of Maryland)

NOVEMBER 1998

nov98 Tomorrow in Brief: robotic farmers boost productivity (French Technology Press Office, Coverplant Engineering); red-light runners increase (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety; Oxnard, California); smarter, faster missiles (Matra Dynamics, Royal Air Force, Eurofighter); preventing gun accidents (Johns Hopkins, touch memory, personalized guns); importing hospital patients? (German Information Center); swing while you sleep (DeKraker Custom Products, Empyrean swing bed)

nov98 WORLD TRENDS & FORECASTS:
demography—slowing population growth in Ireland, Africa (United Nations Population Fund, women's labor force participation, Population Reference Bureau, Population Action International); meat consumption soars in Third World (Worldwatch); in brief: slower decline in traditional family (Census Bureau)
economics—the relationship economy (Vision 2010, Andersen Consulting, Economist Intelligence Unit); is videoconferencing finally taking off? (CEMA); in brief: rising demand for organic food, land (Purdue)
society—Rx for health professionals: honesty, fairness, respect (Arthur Caplan, Am I My Brother's Keeper?); the bathroom as haven (Consumer Reports; Kohler Co.; body spa, whirlpool); in brief: spelling skills decline in Germany (German Information Center)
technology—technologies converge in new products (DVD, Cambridge Consultants, Brian R. Gaines, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, CEMA); new electronic ink changes itself (E Ink); toolkit for chic geeks (Michael Kirsch, Tool Roll); in brief: hdtv may spur 3-d tv (Synthonics Technologies, rapid virtual reality)
environment—breathing new life into cities (downtown art, culture, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Arizona Science Center Phoenix, National Building Museum)
government—leadership in a connected world (Connexity, Geoff Mulgan, Tony Blair); in brief: avoiding traffic delays (Oregon, Cascade Policy Institute); stemming youth crime (Urban Institute, juvenile justice, specialty courts)

nov98 Books in Brief: scientists see a wondrous future (Visions by Michio Kaku); the logic of long-range planning (Comprehensive Planning for the 21st Century by Melville C. Branch)

nov98 Personal Futures: growing kids and gardens together (National Gardening Association, GrowLab); do sunscreens increase skin cancer? (Science News, Marianne Berwick, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center); music and brain function (German Information Center, Christo Pantev, Institute for Experimental Audiology)

OCTOBER 1998

oct98 Tomorrow in Brief: amphibious wheelchair (poolchair, Coventry University); unlocking secrets of common colds (Purdue, virus), buzzwords signal trends (Earl C. Joseph, Minnesota futurists, knowledge management), tamperproof paper (forgery, security, Groupe Familial Chapel, France); battling bacteria with copper (e. coli, Copper Development Association)

oct98 WORLD TRENDS & FORECASTS:
society—this just in—old statistics (social well-being, social indicators, Marc Miringoff, Indicators of Children's Well-Being); preparing children for reading (NRC, Look Japan)
demography—declining growth in population raises hopes (Resources for the Future, Warren Robinson, U.N.); X'ers vs. boomers (Generations Apart, Richard Thau, Jay Heflin, Heather Lamm)
economics—better mousetraps may not catch customers (Anthony P. Carnevale, Educational Testing Service); In Brief: how cheap is gasoline? Interfaith coalition on energy)
technology—biotech goes to extremes (extremophiles, microbes, Yellowstone, Diversa Corp., Biotech 2 Program); In Brief: finding out if computers really help (Indiana University, technology audits); new ceramic can fix potholes (Argonne, ceramicrete)
government—Americans distrust their government (Pew Research Center); using shame to stop crime (For Shame, James Twitchell, decency)
environment—seafood that never sees the sea (aquaculture, Worldwatch, Anne Platt McGinn, biotech, Ag-West Biotech); getting trash to decompose (University of Wisconsin-Madison, landfills, Robert Ham); In Brief: shipping water in giant bags (Aquarius Water Trading)

oct98 Personal Futures: planning for disasters (The Complete Book of Survival, Rainer Stahlberg); a quiet home helps children learn (Purdue, Theodore Wachs)

oct98 Future Active: cosmic evolution and humanity 3000 (Foundation For the Future, Robert McCall); combining intelligence and strategy (The Futures Group, eagles and ostriches, Charles M. Perrottet)

AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1998

as98 Tomorrow in Brief: commercial flight to an asteroid (SpaceDev, Near Earth Asteroid Prospector); order foreign currency online (Direct FX); think in opposites! (Derm Barrett, The Paradox Process); employers offer new perks (Challenger, Gray & Christmas, wash cars, walk dogs); greener grass, better grass (Grassland Research Institute Wales, USDA); shrinking lunch hours (Trend/Wire; Steelcase; al desko)

as98 WORLD TRENDS & FORECASTS:
technology—Getting Robots to Work in Teams; Computing with DNA (Jeremy Rifkin, The Biotech Century); A Golden Age for Chemistry (Chemical & engineering News); in brief: Talk Your Way Around the Web (Conversa; voice surfing)
government—Small Arms Become Big Problem (Worldwatch, Michael Renner)
society—Less Common Ground in Tomorrow's America? (The Menace of Multiculturalism by Alvin Schmidt; Revolutionary Multiculturalism by Peter McLaren; We Are All Multiculturalists Now by Nathan Glazer)
demography—Who's on the Internet and Why (the State of the Net by Peter C. Clemente); Life from Death: New Source of Organ Donors Institute of Medicine); Much-Higher Stroke Rates Expected (American Heart Association)
economics—Reinventing Labor Unions (ILO, Arthur Shostak); Executives Face Riskier Futures (Challenger, Gray & Christmas); Improved Networks Will Boost Global Economy (Telecommunications; Ovum)
environment—Alternative Energy Sources Gain Worldwide (Worldwatch, Christopher Flavin and Seth Dunn)

as98 Books in Brief: Knowledge Enterprises of the 21st Century (The Infinite Resource edited by William E. Halal); Debunking Management Fads (Power Tools by John Nirenberg)

as98 Future Active: Predicting Relapse of Sex Offenders (APA, Karl Hanson and Monique Bussiere); Averting Another Potato Blight (HotBytes); Strategies for the Pharmaceutical Industry (PharmVision, Decision Resources)

as98 Personal Futures: Investing for the Future (Roaring 2000s by Harry S. Dent); back to fat? (Trend/Wire); overuse of antibiotics (American Society for Microbiology)

JUNE-JULY 1998

jj98 Tomorrow in Brief: solar shower (French Technology Press Office); staying anonymous while web surfing (Anonymizer); remote rescues in sea emergencies (Falmouth Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre; London Press; Coast Guard; Britain); software for better speaking (Phonetics Tutor; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); pharmafoods in the pantry (HotBytes, Food Channel, DuPont, nutriceuticals); computer gaming for job candidates (Employease; Career Forum)

jj98 WORLD TRENDS & FORECASTS:
economics—the rise of management consultants (Dangerous Company by James O'Shea and Charles Madigan); poverty as a health hazard (New England Journal of Medicine, John W. Lynch et al; University of Michigan); banks will look you in the eye (ATMs, biometric security, iris identification); In Brief: Taiwan workers choose independence (SOHO)
demography—the consequences of living longer (Cheating Death by Marvin Cetron and Owen Davies; Hudson Institute, In-Home/CHOICE); education will lower Mideast birth rate (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis); eating what's good for you (American Dietetic Association)
government—stopping microbial killers (AIDS, TB, malaria, micro-threats, FRQ, Clark Merrill, Dennis Pirages; World Health Report, WHO); community groups partner with government (Urban Institute, civil society); is U.S. military racing against itself? (Commonwealth Institute)
environment—a cure for sick buildings? (breathing wall, Genetron, University of Guelph); asteroids could cause tsunamis (Los Alamos); nationhood proposed for whales and dolphins (cetacean nation, Jim Nollman, Interspecies Communication)
society—marketing to a celebrity-obsessed society (High Visibility, Irving Rein, Philip Kotler, Arianna Huffington, celebritizers); investing in children (Yale, Sharon Kagan); reinventing community colleges (Kenneth Walker, Edison Community College); four effective treatments for drug abuse (NIDA, American Psychological Association)
technology—top technologies to watch (space frame cars; portable sunshine; fusion research, z accelerator; crystal devices; digital x-rays, flash memory); nanotechnology makes gains (fullerene nanotubes, buckytubes, Foresight Institute); In Brief: cleaning buildings with lasers (French Technology Press Office); {experiments create} trans-species embryos (cow eggs, cloning, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

jj98 Future Active: anti-aging medicine (Michael Fossel, John Petersen); recreating the ice age? (The Week in Germany, Potsdam Institute for Climate Research) [filler advertorial on Futurist's 2000 countdown on the web]

jj98 Books in Brief: fulfilling our human potential (Conscious Evolution by Barbara Marx Hubbard, peace room, NewNews network); using scenarios in business (Learning from the Future, Liam Fahey, Robert Randall); theory of prediction (Predicting the Future, Nicholas Rescher)

MAY 1998

may98 Tomorrow in Brief: the secrets of scents (smells, brain mapping, aromatron); stopping crime in Britain (Scotland Yard, video cameras); yellow pages signal trends (Peter Eder); German court bans junk e-mail (Bavaria, spamming); adding emotions to synthesized voices; like bees, police may look for pollen (forensic palynology, spores, evidence, Texas A&M)

may98 WORLD TRENDS & FORECASTS:
economics—knowledge as capital (The New Organizational Wealth by Karl Erik Sveiby; intangible assets); why Johnny can't save (Consumers Union, children, finance); sustainable financing (U.N. Environment Programme, Harvard Institute for International Development)
demography—tracking fitness: from fashion fad to health trend (Fitness Products Council, exercise, graying of society, Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association); understanding addiction (genetics and substance abuse, Harvard Medical School, National Institute on Drug Abuse); girls abuse steroids (National Institute on Drug Abuse; eating disorders)
government—the risk of nuclear terrorism (Brian Michael Jenkins; The Future of Terrorism); tomorrow's Navy: high tech on the high seas (Technology for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, 2000-2035; sensors in ultraviolet, infrared, acoustic bands; vertical takeoff and landing)
society—defending the rights of chickens (vegetarianism, factory farming, animal rights, Vegan by Erik Marcus); In Brief: single-gender schools (National School Boards Association, single-sex classrooms)
environment—chemical-free lawns and gardens (Steven L. Saul; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, pesticides, Old Tyme Gardening for New Age Concerns by Mark a Tamn); cooling hot cities with trees (urban forests); In Brief: new plants threaten bees (genetically modified plants); cleaning with coal (coal dust cleans soil polluted by hydrocarbons around coking plants)
technology—building a better mouse (icons, computer interfaces, DOS commands, Interface Culture by Steven Johnson); biochips may detect toxic agents (Argonne National Lab); In Brief: personal post office (Pitney Bowes); smart-bomb technology now targets breast cancer (U.S. Public Health Service, Office on Women's Health; MRI scans, mammograms)

may98 Personal Futures: strategies for future careers (Gary Joseph Grappo, The Top 10 Career Strategies for the Year 2000 & Beyond); music and stress reduction (MUSICA, Ravi Shankar, waltz, cortisol hormones)

may98 obits: Ossip Flechtheim, Julian Simon

may98 Future Active: green policy in the future (Thinking Ecologically, Yale University; Marian Chertow, Daniel Esty); strategic planning viewed from the bottom up (Long Range Planning, Michael Hay, Peter Williamson)

APRIL 1998

apr98 Tomorrow in Brief: people movers (French Technology Press Office); privacy vs. future history (Don W. Wilson, archivist, Texas A&M University); trend spotters: watch your verbs; speed limits shift with weather (Smart Trek, Travel Aid, Seattle); e-mail served with coffee (Food Channel); electronic nose sniffs out pollution (London Press Service, University of Warwick, Brite EuRam)

apr98 WORLD TRENDS & FORECASTS:
economics—paying for tomorrow's health care (Mortal Peril by Richard A. Epstein and Market-Driven Health Care by Regina Herzlinger); grape and pawpaw may help fight cancer (USDA-ARS, Purdue)
environment—food vs. wildlife (Hudson Institute); report card on precision farming (Purdue; NRC); In Brief: vacuum-cleaning trains (VakTrak, French Technology Press Office); mobile pollution monitoring (Siemens)
government—global prosperity possible in 2020 (OECD); public support for basic science (Pasteur's Quadrant by Donald E. Stokes)
technology—computers with emotions (Affective Computing by Rosalind W. Picard); new uses for energy from sound waves (MacroSonix Corp.); crop innovations (Ag-West Biotech; Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food)
demography—the net generation is changing the marketplace (Growing Up Digital by Don Tapscott); early retirement slows economic growth (Hudson Institute, Alan Reynolds)
society—odds favor more gambling (World Sports Exchange/Echo Communications; American Psychological Association); In Brief: kidnapping insurance (Free China Journal)

apr98 Personal Futures: how to stay alive when jobs are dead (Creating You & Co. by William Bridges; de-job); eat, drink, and be healthy (Eating for a Healthy Heart by John Yudkin and Sara Stanner; French Paradox; wine and cholesterol)

apr98 Future Active: the nonstop society (Future Foundation, 24-hour society); doctors in cyberspace (European Commission, Institute of Telemedicine; VIPS mediascience)

apr98 obit: Pierre Wack (quoting Ian Wilson)

apr98 Books in Brief: contact with extraterrestrials (After Contact by Albert A. Harrison); the withering of the state (The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg); reaching out all over: the meganet's impacts (Meganet by Wilson Dizard Jr.)

MARCH 1998

mar98 Tomorrow in Brief: device sees through walls (Georgia Tech); hot line for grieving pet owners (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); virtual laboratory on the web (Johns Hopkins); french-fried fuel for trucks (EverGreen); diners walk out with dinners (Food Channel HotBytes); electronic stethoscope (University of Sussex, London Press Service)

mar98 WORLD TRENDS & FORECASTS:
ENVIRONMENT—averting a water crisis (U.N., UNESCO)
ECONOMICS—catching the third wave (Competing in the Third Wave by Jeremy Hope and Tony Hope); workers in high demand + the new elite (Challenger, Gray & Christmas); In Brief: don't call us developed! (Taiwan, Singapore, The Free China Journal)
Technology—a carriage fit for future kings (Coventry University, London Press Service); adjustable acoustics (French Technology Press Office); In Brief: clip-on camera for videoconferencing (Panasonic)
GOVERNMENT—America as global savior (Promised Land, Crusader State by Walter A. McDougall); video games meet war games (NRC); the struggle to compete (Japan; NRC)
DEMOGRAPHY—nurturing teenagers to a better future (University of Minnesota, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health); prosperity may spur population growth (Virginia Abernathy, Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy)
SOCIETY—advertisers divide and conquer (Calvin and Hobbes art; Breaking Up America by Joseph Turow); the new generation in Japan (Yasuhiro Yoshizaki, Comparative Civilizations Review, International Scoiety for the Comparative Study of Civilization, University of Missouri)

mar98 Personal Futures: mentoring the mentors + advice for mentors (Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend, National Academy of Sciences); lifelong learners (Raising Lifelong Learners, Lucy Calkins)

mar98 Future Active: high-tech polling (School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University); business hunt for new hunting grounds (Innovation Focus); a foundation for the future (Foundation For the Future)

mar98 obit: Gary Gappert

mar98 Books in Brief: the identity crisis in postmodern society (The Future of the Self by Walter Truett Anderson); encouraging creativity and achievement (Break Out of the Box by Mike Vance and Diane Deacon)

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1998

j-f-98 Tomorrow in Brief: future career: director of socialization (Challenger, Gray & Christmas); talking pictures (flat-panel speakers, New Transducers, London Pix); promoting ostrich meat (Purdue University); homework heaven (Jumbo; National School Boards Assn.); snooping in cyberspace (Naked in Cyberspace; Carole Lane; Pemberton Press)

j-f-98 Publisher's page: more changes at THE FUTURIST (introducing Dan Johnson and Jeffrey Epstein); dealing with a wild card (Tom Wagner, putting Tom's death in perspective)

j-f-98 Anticipations: your tool for preparing for the future

j-f-98 WORLD TRENDS & FORECASTS:
DEMOGRAPHY—virus hunters pursue our invisible enemies (Virus Hunter; C.J. Peters, Centers for Disease Control, Ebola); toward fitter kids (Purdue University, KidzFit Int'l.)
GOVERNMENT—reducing government bureaucracy (Banishing Bureacuracy, reinventing government, David Osborne, Peter Plastrik); live right or die cheaply (The Price of Life, Robert Blank)
SOCIETY—grrls' revolution (A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World, Barbie, zines, women's magazines, Karen Green, Tristan Taormino, cybergrrl); rescuing children from abuse (Heritage Foundation, Patrick Fagan, Dorothy Hanks); the family and economic growth (The Feminine Economy and Economic Man, Shirley Burggraf); In Brief: virtual girlfriends (heart-throbbers, virtual idols, Japan); illiteracy plunges in Saudi Arabia
ENVIRONMENT—eco-industrial parks (Journal of Industrial Ecology; John Ehrenfeld, Nicholas Gertler, Purdue University photo); biorefineries (Evergreen, New Uses Council, alfalfa); In Brief: ozone chat room (Washington University in St. Louis, Internet); surprising find in German forests (state of the forest floor, soil)
ECONOMICS—making it in America (educational attainment and income, Urban Institute, Daniel McMurrer, Isabel Sawhill); tomorrow's prime consumers: older, richer (Rethinking the Future, Philip Kotler); In Brief: cloning goes commercial (cattle clones, Infigen, Inc.); world economy is on upswing (United Nations, World Economic and Social Survey)
TECHNOLOGY—biofilms: a new frontier (slime city, American Society for Microbiology); tool kit for making the car of the future (Technology Today, Southwest Research Institute, Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles); In Brief: reducing trash-can fires ((Technology Today, Southwest Research Institute); gene discovery could bring longer-lasting tomatoes (University of California, Davis); portable detectors spot contraband (ultrasonic pulse echo, material identification system, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, U.S. Customs)

j-f-98 Personal Futures: taking children's pain seriously (New York State Society of Anesthesiologists; Robert McDowall, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, circumcision); organ donors; finding your life's purpose (Richard Leider, The Power of Purpose); a tax on snacks? (Yale University Center for Eating and Weight Disorders, Kelly Brownell, nutrition, obesity, American Dietetic Ass'n.)

j-f-98 Future Active: tips from a trend watcher (Art Siemering, glamour districts, Trend/Wire, Michigan Avenue,); book and film explore ecological lifestyles (Ecological Design, Design Outlaws, Chris Zelov, Phil Cousineau, Knossus Project); futures studies in England (Leeds Metropolitan University, Graham May); elder-friendly information (INSIDE, Liguria, Italy, Belfast, mediascience)

1997
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NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1997

n-d-97 Publisher's page: Emerging Technologies: Tools for Society; THE FUTURIST goes monthly

n-d-97 Tomorrow in Brief: speech recognition system (Johns Hopkins); putting tobacco to good use (Bill Drake, EverGreen, New Uses Council, biomass, tobacco as energy source); really, really smart cards (Schlumberger, electronic purs, Visa); portable suns (French Technology Press Office, AIRSTAR, Sirocco); tracking bumblebees (Natural Resources Institute, London Press); entrepreneurs as heroes (Purdue University, Arnold Cooper, Bill Gates)

n-d-97 WORLD TRENDS & FORECASTS:
ENVIRONMENT—reinventing the city (Transit Villages in the 21st Century by Michael Bernick and Robert Cervero; Asphalt Nation by Jane Holtz Kay; Bethesda, Rosslyn); cleaning indoor air with ceramics (University of Wisconsin, Madison; Marc Anderson). In Brief: saving the American landscape (National Park Foundation); the geography of floods (National Research Council)
ECONOMICS—future marketplace: consumer heaven? (Insider's Guide to the Future; Arnold Brown, Edith Weiner; emotile society, emotile era; future jobs, future businesses); ethics under pressure (American Society of Chartered Life Underwriters & Chartered Financial Consultants); feeding China (International Food Policy Research Institute). In Brief: selective pay raises (Challenger, Gray & Christmas)
CULTURE—travel planning online (NetTravel, Michael Shapiro); adventures in snacking (Joshua Isenberg, Food Channel, Hot Bytes; Bob Posten, icon & landis). In Brief: digital storytelling (Indiana University, Thom Gillespie)
DEMOGRAPHY—population growth has big uncertainties (Carl Haub, Population Reference Bureau); selling your privacy (John Hagel III, Jeffrey F. Rayport, Harvard Business Review)
GOVERNMENT—guarding children's rights (International Rights and Responsibilities for the Future, Kenneth W. Hunter, Timothy C. Mack; UNICEF 1997 annual report, Tunisia); employee cybertheft (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Bruce Atkins, trade secrets). In Brief: Avon ladies bring a new message (Brazil, reproductive health information; Populi, UNFP, United Nations Population Fund); shrinking armies (Vital Signs, Michael Renner, Worldwatch)
TECHNOLOGY—ever-smarter farmers keep food abundant (Purdue University, Howard Doster); robotic insects take wing (Georgia Tech, micro air vehicles, microflyers, Robert Michelson, entomopter). In Brief: cell car (Chrysler, fuel-cell vehicle); cool suits (Foster-Miller, personal refrigerator; firefighters)

n-d-97 Personal Futures: baby's brain: important findings (brain research; Rethinking the Brain, Rima Shore, Families and Work Institute); job hunting via the web (networking, How to Get Your Dream Job Using the Web, Shannon Karl, Arthur Karl)

n-d-97 Books in Brief: scenarios bring 2025 to life (2025 by Joseph F. Coates, John B. Mahaffie, and Andy Hines); evaluating wild cards (Out of the Blue by John L. Petersen); a "personal guide" to the future (The Next Twenty Years of Your Life by Richard Worzel)

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1997

s-o-97 Publisher's page: column returns by popular demand; on being (and becoming) happy

s-o-97 Tomorrow in Brief: keeping pigs cool; unheard of yesterday, essential today (The Essential Business Buyer's Guide by staff of Business Consumer Guide, Sourcebooks, Inc.); a living bridge in London?; imaging aid for doctors, dentists (Synthonics Technologies, Inc.); more area codes needed (Peter F. Eder, Wahlstrom & Company); toys that are antiseptic (Freedonia Group)

s-o-97 WORLD TRENDS & FORECASTS
TECHNOLOGY—bridges with brains, airplanes with feelings (intelligent materials; Probable Tomorrows by Cetron & Davies); the impact of inventions (VCR makes life easier; Lemelson-MIT Prize, Sloan School of Management, Lester Thurow). In Brief: eyes do not lie (John G. Daugman, University of Cambridge, patterns in iris); video camera for your desk (EggCam, Panasonic, video e-mail)
ECONOMICS—the coming Chinese century (China in the 21st Century, OECD). In Brief: butterflies cause flutter in Indonesia; the income gap widens (Vital Signs 1997, Lester R. Brown, Worldwatch Institute)
DEMOGRAPHY—do you know your technology type? (technographics, Forrester Research); access to contraception: a global survey (Population Action International). In Brief: more women drive drunk (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety); skin cancer increases (Scandinavia, Sweden, laser imaging)
ENVIRONMENT—environmentalists lash back at brownlashers (Anne and Paul Ehrlich, Betrayal of Science and Reason); the experts speak on climate change (World Meteorological Organization, U.N. Environmental Program, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 1995 {3 vols.}); bad air in cities kills hundreds of thousands (Derek Elsom, Smog Alert)
GOVERNMENT—preventing war and disorder (Preventive Diplomacy, Kevin M. Cahill, Center for International Health and Cooperation, 610 West End Ave., NYC 10024); strategic information warfare (RAND National Defense Research Institute, Roger C. Molander et al.). In Brief: drugged money (Argonne National Lab., cocaine); stealth warship (Vosper Thorneycroft, Sea Wraith)
CULTURE—education gap grows in Caribbean (men at risk, UNESCO, Errol Miller, Jamaica, illiteracy); therapeutic tourism (National Psoriasis Foundation, Dead Sea, Israel, Jordan, Blue Lagoon, Iceland, Soap Lake, Washington). In Brief: theme park in the heart of London (Piccadilly, Trocadero, Segaworld); German translations decline

s-o-97 Personal Futures: raising optimistic children (The Optimistic Child, Martin Seligman); Rx for information overload (Data Smog, David Shenk); sharing management's pain (James E. Challenger); palliative care as a new medical specialty (Essential Guide to Chronic Illness, James W. Long; American Academy of Hospice Physicians, National Hospice Organization, Hospice Education Institute)

s-o-97 Books in Brief: virtual teams transcend space and time (Virtual Teams by Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps); accessing higher education (Cyberschools by Glenn R. Jones); the future of medicine (21st-Century Miracle Medicine by Alexandra Wyke)

s-o-97 Future Active: global issues to watch (1997 State of the Future, Millennium Project, American Council for the United Nations University); computer models of the earth's climate (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate System Model, Maurice Blackmon, Climate and Global Dynamics division; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Walter Robinson); scenarios for New Zealand (James Duncan, Just Jane)

JULY-AUGUST 1997

j-a-97 Publisher's page: sex at age 200?

j-a-97 Anticipations: using the future to see the present [mentions General Electric, Ian Wilson]

j-a-97 WORLD TRENDS & FORECASTS
ENVIRONMENT—earth's changing climate (Stephen Schneider, Laboratory Earth); keeping up with environmental trends (roundup from Future Survey: World Resources 1996-97, oceans will rise; endangered species black market; W.M. Adams on managing nature)
ECONOMICS—Americans do better, feel worse (Richard B. McKenzie, The Paradox of Progress); harvesting the 'hood (urban gardens, UC Davis); doctors mean business: MDs with MBAs; frequent eaters may get special perks (Art Siemering, food futurist)
GOVERNMENT—government's role in competitive intelligence (Larry Kahaner, Competitive Intelligence; cryptography); immobilizing drunk drivers (The Club); oversight needed in reporting research
TECHNOLOGY—fabrics and nanotechnology (David R. Forrest [412-224-3777], Foresight Institute); dream cars, French style (Peugeot, Citroen, Eureka research program); satellite spin-offs (NASA, global positioning system); windmills make comeback (Morocco, Germany, France)
DEMOGRAPHY—generational cycles predict a coming crisis (William Strauss, Neil Howe, The Fourth Turning); boomers and zoomers (Kathy C. Yohalem, Thinking Out of the Box)
CULTURE—cyberspace goes literary (Modern Language Association, Chadwyck-Healey; Primary Source Media; Merriam-Webster); culture and color: sacred green, lucky pink? (Color Tool, Surya Vanka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); the museum of news (newseum, Allen H. Neuharth)

j-a-97 Personal Futures: protecting your privacy (Don Tapscott, Ann Cavoukian, Who Knows); is genetic ignorance bliss? (Health Psychology, American Psychological Association; Andrew Baum; Caryn Lerman); raising nonracist children (Barbara Mathias, Mary Ann French, 40 Ways to Raise a Nonracist Child); is virtual college right for you? (Pam Dixon, Virtual College); honesty counts in job interviews (Robert Half International, Max Messmer)

j-a-97 Books in Brief: building a good society (The New Golden Rule by Amitai Etzioni); living online (Cyberspace by David B. Whittle)

j-a-97 Future Actives: technology forecasts from Japan and Germany; tomorrow project in Britain (Richard Worsley, Michael Moynagh); descendants day (Charles A. Howell; Trust For The Future; Bob Clement, Tennessee)

MAY-JUNE 1997

m-j-97 Publisher's page: get ready, readers, for the new Futurist

m-j-97 Anticipations: Futurist shock: even a magazine about the future must face change

m-j-97 WORLD TRENDS & FORECASTS
CULTURE—the clash of civilizations (Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations); the rise of the camcorder (amateur journalism, Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association);
ENVIRONMENT—Britain's ambitious recycling project (newspapers, London Press Service); getting tough on ecocrimes (pollution, CFCs, Britain); alfalfa: good for feed and electricity (USDA-ARS); reforestation with tree "bombs" (Moshe Alamaro, MIT, Science News;
DEMOGRAPHY—baby boomers at "middle-youth" (Cheryl Russell, The Mid-Youth Market, middle-age); health care for behavior problems (alcoholism, drug abuse, mental illness, crime, Insitute of Medicine); slowdown in growth of the web (Georgia Tech, Internet);
TECHNOLOGY—wiring the globe (Wired, FLAG, fiber optics, Neal Stephenson); high-tech hard hats (University of Illinois, construction workers, digital helmets); genetically engineered pearls? (Look Japan, oysters, nacrein protein);
ECONOMICS—swimming with tomorrow's sharks (James Martin, cybercorp, management); workers abuse computer games (Anti-Game, DVD Software, Internet); more Europeans are moonlighting (German information Center, overtime, multiple jobs);
GOVERNMENT—three scenarios for 21st-century China (Deng Xiaoping, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Bamboo Network, Murray Weidenbaum, Samuel Hughes); taxing the internet (Cybernautics Digest, FCC, Paul Stoneman, Warwick University, bit tax); regulating "speech" on the internet (Cato Institute, Solveig Bernstein, Communications Decency Act, First Amendment)

m-j-97 Visions [unbylined]: Renaissance futurist Leonardo da Vinci (Museum of Science in Boston; creativity, thinking, interactive exhibit)

m-j-97 Personal Futures (Personal Futures): creative "cheating" (Escape from the Maze by James M. Higgins); the top skills for tomorrow's workers (Let the Trumpet Resound by Lawrence G. Brandon; valu skills); the entrepreneurial personality (The 4 Routes to Entrepreneurial Success by John B. Miner; personal achiever, supersalesperson, real manager, expert idea generator)

m-j-97 Books in Brief: the creative flow of change makers (Creativity by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi); planning the planet on your home computer (International Futures by Barry B. Hughes); forecasting for tourism (Practical Tourism Forecasting by Douglas C. Frechtling); how ideas reproduce (Thought Contagion by Aaron Lynch)

m-j-97 Future Active: generation X group forms (FIRST, Foundation for Individual Responsibility and Social Trust; David Surbeck); future studies in western Europe (Hugues de Jouvenel; OSCAR, OCTAVE, directories, Futuribles International)

m-j-97 obit: Willis Harman

MARCH-APRIL 1997

m-a-97 Publisher's page: youth at risk and generation x

m-a-97 Future Scope: European scientists seek disease-resistant crops; all-plastic battery?; verifying events; saving money on bridges

m-a-97 Tomorrow in Brief: satellite pay phone; peanut allergies alarm schools; nicer smells, nicer people; casual wear works for business; nutritious chewing gum?; teaching theaters; Londoners bike to work; new hope for the blind; unisex jobs; plants that clean the soil; on-line legal services; smart fabric

m-a-97 Anticipations: the next 30 years

m-a-97 Future Active: science readings on-line (National Academy Press); management by scenario (Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Juergen Gausemeier, Alexander Fink, Oliver Schlake); global modeling project (Matsunaga Institute for Peace, University of Hawaii)

m-a-97 Books in Brief: getting real about technology predictions (Reality Check by Brad Wieners and David Pescovitz); from sci-fi to reality: exploring Mars (Strategies for Mars edited by Carol R. Stoker and Carter Emmart); using infotech for success (The Digital Economy by Don Tapscott)

m-a-97 Encyclopedia Sampler: a chronology of the future

m-a-97 WORLD TRENDS & FORECASTS: technology—hotel room of the future; resources—efficiency could extend energy reserves; saving our biological resources; demographics—population is unlikely to double; education—echo boom hits U.S. schools; educating parents; business—the 10 laws of on-line shopping; execs for rent; international—terrorism via the Internet; transportation—safer cars worldwide

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1997

j-f-97 Publisher's page: dark clouds and silver linings; women's preferred futures deadline extended!

j-f-97 Future Scope: metacomputing: while you sleep, your computer gets a job; economic impacts of AIDS; no windows for airplane pilots?; yeast genome is mapped

j-f-97 Tomorrow in Brief: ready-to-install home office; strategic accounting?; electricity to clean oily soil; ulcer medicine may help fight HIV; keeping data secure; automatic drip saves pipes; reducing auto crashes among older drivers; the perfect cork?; photographic memory for moles; living machine cleans up a chocolate mess; speed beats graphics on the web; vanishing prairie plants

j-f-97 Anticipations: deliver us from gloom

j-f-97 Visions: hotels on reefs, asteroids, and dirigibles [design competition for architecture students, sponsored by Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo, and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture]

j-f-97 WORLD TRENDS & FORECASTS: lifestyles—gardeners sniff a trend; health—curing hypochondria; animal-to-human transplants; government—gambling on gambling; transportation—more cars will have some smarts; resources—rediscovering Africa's native crops; international—surge in global migration; education—declining standards at universities; management—using computers for hiring

j-f-97 Future Active: boosting creativity (Judy Tso, Innovation Focus); libraries in the cyber future (Earl C. Joseph); China's demand for food and fuel (OECD); improving water quality in Europe (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis)

j-f-97 Obit: William C. Moore

j-f-97 Encyclopedia Sampler: top 10 futurists

1996
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NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1996

n-d-96 Future Scope: pharming the Mediterranean; fingering credit-card thieves; laser finds microbes in foold; marketing on the Internet

n-d-96 Publisher's Page: renewing ourselves and our institutions

n-d-96 Tomorrow in Brief: virtual reality for filmmakers; recycling old ovens, dishwashers; detecting land mines; electronic shopping; bad air aggravates asthma; lawyer for dogs; breakfast is on the decline; free power for electric cars; faces change shape in Japan; cheaper patents in Europe; monster insects; genome project may improve chickens

n-d-96 Anticipations: the mission of THE FUTURIST

n-d-96 WORLD TRENDS & FORECASTS: resources—saving elephants; communications—universal phonetics; health—missile technology helps eye patients; education—student records and privacy; habitats—kitty city; building with fabric; management—meetings will gain importance

n-d-96 Future Active: speculative poetry (Virtual Futures by Lane Jennings); space technology for the future (NASA); futures center for Florida high schools (Cole Jackson, Orange County, Images of the Future project); revisiting Herman Kahn's The Year 2000 (Hudson Institute)

n-d-96 Books in Brief: planning our destiny (The Future Is Ours by Graham H. May); novel uses for nanotechnology (Nanotechnology edited by B.C. Crandall)

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1996

s-o-96 Publisher's Page: scenarios for America's decline

s-o-96 Tomorrow in Brief: flying camera; to hold your job, embrace technology; chefs in supermarkets; speech analysis for drunk drivers; ultra-light foam; new elms will cope with city stress; boss as referee; new soy products; good news, bad news for gorillas; publisher offers book free on the Web; catching car thieves

s-o-96 Future Scope: new earthquake predictor found; reforestation in Amazon revealed by satellites; Smithsonian scientist to study squids; getting rid of nuclear warheads

s-o-96 Future Active: ranking the top inventions (Lemelson-MIT Prize, Wilson Greatbatch); fighting future wars (National Research Council); environment-friendly building for scientists (AAAS, Henry N. Cobb, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners)

s-o-96 WORLD TRENDS & FORECASTS: computers—photonic computers; business—bank-o-tainment; work—workplace surveillance; disasters prompt drive toward virtual work; resources—protected cultivation: farming indoors; communications—an effort to save Yiddish

s-o-96 obit: Roy Mason

s-o-96 Sampler: more forecasts from the Encyclopedia of the Future (marriage; television; clothing; dentistry; languages; pets; space colonization)

JULY-AUGUST 1996

j-a-96 Publisher's Page: solutions and innovations

j-a-96 Tomorrow in Brief: solar car for developing countries; traffic worsens; Hollywood conquers Europe; to taste the future; keeping chemicals off your skin; robots recycle radioactive telephones; Europe's disappearing soils; computers on the move; no-frills lawyers; industry deserts rural France; rooftop energy

j-a-96 Future Scope: an antimatter bomb?; corporate amnesia; a patient-friendly hospital; solar cells mimic photosynthesis; lichens disappear in North America

j-a-96 Future Active: hope needed for developing countries (Rashmi Mayur, South Forum, Global Futures Network); genetic gardens (Yalding Organic Gardens, London Press/Pictures Service); more plans for the millennium (Bill Renfro, National Millennium Foundation, Arco, Pitney Bowes); FloridaScan Project (Earle Klay); Diebold's infostructure project (John Diebold)

j-a-96 WORLD TRENDS & FORECASTS: technology—underground scanner; an artificial nose; health—ten goals for global health; medical malls; business—Internet-based businesses; younger entrepreneurs; space—amateurs in space; environment—Chinese sustainability; society—tougher times for teenagers

j-a-96 Books in Brief: the nature of leadership (review of Leading Minds by Howard Gardner with Emma Laskin); alternative futures for women (review of The Futures of Women by Pamela McCorduck and Nancy Ramsey).

MAY-JUNE 1996

m-j-96 Publisher's Page: dreams and visions of the future

m-j-96 Tomorrow in Brief: Eastern Europe's animals seek asylum; cyberwear; dog therapy; cocaine vaccine?; laser refrigeration; electric bikes boost police mobility; high-tech hips; deepfreezing: alternative to abortion?; security systems boom; reducing household waste; build your own career ladder; monitoring undersea volcanoes

m-j-96 Future Scope: making pollution visible; the walkman workplace; the crash-avoiding car; frog vanishings explained; vive le francais

m-j-96 WORLD TRENDS & FORECASTS environment—cars that eat smog; greening the greens; society—young vs. old; the self-help solution; work—laid-off workers stay put; education—alternatives to the winner-take-all society; family—darkening outlook for U.S. children; technology—building microscopic parts; lighter, cheaper cars?; health—medical predictions to 2200; preventing AIDS; resources—more people, fewer fish

m-j-96 Future Active: News services serve up food trends (Trend/Wire, Art Siemering, Food Channel Hot Bytes); human resources as a national asset (Korea, Center for Future Human Resource Studies); future of work in Australia (Future of Work Foundation, Charles Brass); Africans' visions of Africa's future (Olugbenga Adesida, African Futures, UNDP)

m-j-96 Books in Brief: Who's Afraid of Utopian Eugenics? [review of The Lives to Come by Philip Kitcher]; Boldly We Go into the Next 500 Years [review of The Next 500 Years by Adrian Berry]

MARCH-APRIL 1996

m-a-96 Publisher's Page: the future at work

m-a-96 Tomorrow in Brief: reducing keyboard injuries; Asia, Middle East gird for electronic wars; smart-card market will boom; stress in dual-income marriages; computer-aided creativity; video for rescue dogs; emergency warnings for the deaf; video in the palm of your hand; engineering insects; tiny cameras catch crooks in the act; saving Indonesia's reefs; Trans-Asian pipeline proposed; temporary jobs: a permanent trend?

m-a-96 Future Scope: computers as judge and jury; the spaceworthiness of nations; return of the zeppelin? sea lions have less ddt; virtual drunk driving

m-a-96 WORLD TRENDS & FORECASTS: resources—seed banks, or seed morgues?; arts—enviro-sculpture; smart music; development—India vs. Malaysia: two population policies; environment—virtual reality and workplace pollution; space—making planets people-friendly; business—the care economy; international—global capital shortages expected

m-a-96 Books in Brief: fighting the superstar phenomenon (The Winner-Take-All Society by Robert H. Frank & Philip J. Cook); cyberspace and reality (War of the Worlds by Mark Slouka)

m-a-96 Future Active: preparing teachers to teach the future (3 books by David Hicks: Educating for the Future, Preparing for the Future, and Visions of the Future); rebuilding U.S. infrastructure (Brookhaven National Laboratory, NICEST—National Infrastructure Center for Engineering Systems and Technology); more companies measure environmental impacts (Investor Responsibility Research Center)

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1996

j-f-96 Publisher's Page: the art of foreseeing impacts

j-f-96 Tomorrow in Brief: a million electric cars by 2000; environmental jobs flourish in Germany; power from the moon; golf goes electronic; speed bumps on the infobahn; virtual reality for autistic children; vanishing cow breeds; salad oils clean well water; head injuries in soccer; more bosses, fewer assistants; robot wars; holocaust and genocide database; corporate social workers

j-f-96 Future Scope: sideward mobility: new key to success; more people learn Chinese; neural net finds power-line breaks; lower crime rate for Germany; choosing a college via computer

j-f-96 WORLD TRENDS & FORECASTS: work—growth and work in developing countries; trends in U.S. labor movement; resources—world's oil supply deemed adequate; health—new microbes challenge antibiotics; government—compact discs train judges; computers—voice recognition to catch crooks; communications—who's using the world wide web?; home pages for democrats—the U.N. joins the net; native Americans on-line

j-f-96 Future Active: is planning dead—or just sleeping? (The Futures Group, Charles Perrottet); issue managers: new vs. old (Teresa Yancey Crane, Issue Management Council); good-bye, OTA (Amo Houghton)

j-f-96 Obit: Yoneji Masuda

j-f-96 Books in Brief: thinking about creativity (Creative Action in Organizations, ed. by Cameron M. Ford and Dennis A. Gioia); tales from the infobahn (Road Warriors by Daniel Burstein and David Kline)

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NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1995

n-d-95 Publisher's Page: what to look for in a forecast

n-d-95 Tomorrow in Brief: cornstarch computers for the blind; etching with bacteria; virtual reality for safer mines; reinventing the tweezer; past vs. future; food surfers; cats may help fight AIDS; health care in developing nations; fighting crime with space technologies; sit-down skiing; English as world language; more workers get contracts; saving Saudi Arabia's marine habitats

n-d-95 Future Scope: the decline of spelling; the islands that time forgot; new ways to measure poverty; predicting crime; breastfeeding draws support

n-d-95 WORLD TRENDS & FORECASTS: resources—biodiversity training; preserving the oceans; values—Noah's choice; space—hypersonic personal space travel; health—elder health around the world; evaluating unorthodox therapies; communications—Canada goes wireless; business—seniors consult on products for the elderly; computers—virtual reality for soldiers, cops; technology—the power of patents

n-d-95 Books in Brief: do-it-yourself world-bettering (How to Make the World a Better Place by Jeffrey Hollender with Linda Catling); finding common ground (Future Search by Marvin R. Weisbord and Sandra Janoff)

n-d-95 Future Active: energizing Arcosanti (Paolo Soleri, Cosanti Foundation, American Hydrogen Association); Hawaii lengthens its future view (George Chaplin, Hawaii's Commission on the Year 2000, 2020 Commission, Robert Alm); millennium project feasibility report (Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon); new institute will assess technology (OTA, Institute for Technology Assessment; Vary T. Coates); futurist monographs (Willis Harman, William Van Dusen Wishard, Maya M. Porter); the Venus project (Jacque Fresco).

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1995

s-o-95 Publisher's Page: living with technology's impacts

s-o-95 Tomorrow in Brief: baby in a briefcase; getting alarmed; virtual therapy for conquering fears; too late to switch your profession?; mushroom-picking robot; food porn goes on-line; digital photography; emu: the new American livestock? desktop broadcasting; sphericles for business intuition; giant crane for exploring treetops; reptile medicine; garbage in, power out

s-o-95 Future Scope: screen test for food; tiny tags will let clothes speak; helping teachers to use new technology; downscope, not downsize; putting Europe's youth to work

s-o-95 WORLD TRENDS & FORECASTS: resources—the snowflake connection; lifestyles—the global growth of credit cards; women look homeward; communications—infotech and the law; tv viewing soars globally; fewer post offices, more mail; education—the electronic classroom; demographics—alone in America; computers—surfing a safe net

s-o-95 Future Active: a scaled-down OTA? (Office of Technology Assessment, John H. Gibbons, Congress); laboratory for highways (Minnesota Department of Transportation Road Research Project); payrolling: a new workplace trend (Coates & Jarratt); Pakistan: founded in futurism (Iqbal, Maqbool Elahi, Ikram Azam, Pakistan Futuristics Foundation and Institute); global power in the next 25 years (Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies)

s-o-95 Books in Brief: reversing fatherlessness (Fatherless America by David Blankenhorn); living machines (From Eco-Cities to Living Machines by Nancy Jack Todd and John Todd)

JULY-AUGUST 1995

j-a-95 Publisher's Page: your future—and the world's

j-a-95 Tomorrow in Brief: solar shish kebab; reusing office paper; masculinity in crisis; unmarried women; human rights hot line; plane built from a kit; music on memory cards; smarter, safer air bags; car population to reach 1 billion; tracking theater costumes; Mexico, U.S. may create binational school; high-tech studying

j-a-95 Future Scope: the computerized counselor; work, fun, and the family: new approaches to worker morale; the new age of imaging: the science of seeing; electronic access to the White House; new science city for Taiwan

j-a-95 Visions: the portable workplace (Art Center College of Design)

j-a-95 Future Active: tunnel would link Russia and Alaska (Tunnel Times, Scott Robart); the United Nations and the Future (World Futures and the United Nations, Michael Marien); countdown for the millennium (2,000 days to 2001, William Renfro, National Millennium Foundation)

j-a-95 World Trends & Forecasts: leisure—a theater in your home; international—speculation on Canada's breakup; Europe's competitive edge: culture (The Future European Model by J. Orstrom Moller); resources—the future of fusion energy; electronic mentoring; society—U.S. homicide rates rise; values—Christianity in America; habitats—building better buildings; work—on-the-job training; info-age etiquette

j-a-95 Books in Brief: do we really need the internet (Silicon Snake Oil by Clifford Stoll); exploring the cyberworld (CyberSociety by Steven G. Jones); that's life ... or is it? (It's Alive! by Frederick B. Cohen); too many people ... too little time? (The Human Volcano by Jon Erickson)

j-a-95 Important Recent Books: power surge (Christopher Flavin, Nicholas Lenssen); controlling immigration: a global perspective (Wayne A. Cornelius, Philip L. Martin, and James F. Hollifield, eds.); an America challenged: population change and the future of the United States (Steve H. Murdock); violence in urban America (NRC); better change: best practices for transforming your organization (Price Waterhouse)

MAY-JUNE 1995

m-j-95 Publisher's Page: eco-apocalypse: what our readers think

m-j-95 Tomorrow in Brief: all-terrain vehicle goes easy on environment; eco-calamity in humans; longevity and diet; airplanes will get smart wings; wireless market will soar; outcycling mattresses; imagine that; paging China; jobless growth in manufacturing; predicting traffic jams; meter for sun worshippers; language barrier; veggie shoes

m-j-95 Future Scope: robot butchers; university for senior citizens; nature inspires technology; industrial R&D spending will increase; observing earth from space

m-j-95 Future Active: future thinking combats drinking (The Miracle Method; Scott D. Miller and Insoo Kim Berg; alcoholism); millennium plans in Britain (Financial Times); Israel in the 21st century (Interdisciplinary Center for Technological Analysis and Forecasting, Tel-Aviv University, Yair Sharan)

m-j-95 World Trends & Forecasts: science—genetics and behavior; computers—virtual reality brings ancient worlds to life; society—violence in the workplace; children of addicts; health—man and pig: a future connection?; environment—oil rigs as artificial reefs; resources—microlife: the need to learn more; habitats—neighborhood barriers reduce crime

m-j-95 Important Recent Books: the road to 2015 (John L. Petersen); vision 2020 (Ervin Laszlo); uncommon opportunities (International Commission on Peace and Food, M.S. Swaminathan); fire from heaven (Harvey Cox); upsizing the individual in the downsized organization (Robert Johansen, Rob Swigart); the democratic corporation (Russell L. Ackoff)

MARCH-APRIL 1995

m-a-95 Publisher's Page: the waves of change

m-a-95 Tomorrow in Brief: blue lasers enhance information storage; ouch-free injections; still photos that move; video phone calls may become cheaper; world's fastest toothbrush?; robotic secretary; getting the elderly to pump iron; desktop telescopes; super c-rations?; on-line scientific journals; automatic truck parking; paperless yellow pages?

m-a-95 Future Scope: trains under the Alps; food surpluses in eastern bloc?; evaluating medical technology; miniature heat pumps; writing your electronic resume

m-a-95 Books in Brief: the final fate of the universe (The Last Three Minutes, Paul Davies); six sweeping changes whose time may come (4000, The Fifth Milenium, Timothy F. Travis); a three-dimensional future view (The Challenge of the 21st Century, Harold A. Linstone w/ Ian I. Mitroff)

m-a-95 Future Active: seeds for the future (Royal Botanic Gardens Seed Bank, London Pictures Service); encyclopedia of global problems and potential (Anthony J.N. Judge, Union of International Associations); evaluating the millennium project's feasibility (UNU, United Nations, Jerome C. Glenn); training for peace (Richard H. Solomon, U.S. Institute of Peace, Managing Chaos); challenges for Finland (OECD Future Studies Information Base)

m-a-95 World Trends & Forecasts: lifestyles—atlas of lifestyles; the decline and fall of the microwave; health—better living through body rhythms; arts—interactive movies; development—disasters become more disastrous; [box: the sky is falling—and that's not all!]; environment—the other rain forest; resources—longer lasting flowers; here comes superhorse!; international—the coming end of Canada; management—gold-collar workers and their pay; education—old-fashioned learning

m-a-95 Important Recent Books: the coming plague (Laurie Garrett); in an age of experts (Steven Brint); how buildings learn (Stewart Brand); world resources 1994-95 (WRI, Allen L. Hammond, ed.); children of choice (John A. Robertson); arrogant capital (Kevin Phillips)

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1995

j-f-95 Publisher's Page: will humans become giants?

j-f-95 Tomorrow in Brief: brew your own electricity; preventing bike deaths; rise in smoking among women; the tell-tale brain; tiny hearing aid developed; reforesting the Amazon; getting the lead out of the Pacific; built-in recyclability; fuel from farm waste; automating lab work; bedtime snacking in Japan

j-f-95 Future Scope: teaching without tests or texts; U.S. prisoners growing older; seismic monitoring to enforce nuclear test bans; fat-craving chemical targeted in obesity research; technologies for supercar

j-f-95 Poll: are environmental warnings exaggerated?

j-f-95 World Trends & Forecasts: society—black males in crisis; youth and marijuana; demographics—world population growth; resources—world hunger ahead?; the de-farming of Taiwan; transportation—smart highways face roadblocks; work—reinventing the secretary; education—help for dyslexics

j-f-95 Books in Brief: a tale of two technopoles (Regional Advantage by Saxenian); a guidebook through the world of robots (The McGraw-Hill Illustrated Encyclopedia of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, Gibilisco); twenty-six views of the year 2044 (The World of 2044, Sheffield et al.)

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