2012 Subject/Author Index to The Futurist

Covering all issues from January-February 2012 through November-December 2012 (Volume 46)

SUBJECT INDEX

BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

Adventure Capitalists: Meet the Space Billionaires [box], Joseph N. Pelton, September-October 2012.

An Economy Of, By, and For the People [review of Owning Our Future by Marjorie Kelly], Rick Docksai, November-December 2012.

The Future of the Commercial Sex Industry, Emily Empel, May-June 2012.

India’s Innovation Potential [review of India Inside by Nirmalya Kumar and Phanish Puranam], Rick Docksai, May-June 2012.

The New Age of Space Business, Joseph N. Pelton, September-October 2012.

Renewing Prospects for American Prosperity [review of The Price of Civilization by Jeffrey D. Sachs], Rick Docksai, March-April 2012.

Rethinking “Return on Investment”: What We Really Need to Invest In, Timothy C. Mack, March-April 2012.

Thriving in the Automated Economy, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, March-April 2012.

Why Businesses Must Own Their Futures [review of Communicating with the Future by Thomas Frey], Rick Docksai, January-February 2012.

COMMUNICATIONS

From the Three Rs to the Four Cs: Radically Redesigning K-12 Education, William Crossman, March-April 2012.

A Future of Fewer Words? Five Trends Shaping the Future of Language, Lawrence Baines, March-April 2012.

A World Wide Mind: The Coming Collective Telempathy, Michael Chorost, March-April 2012.

ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES

Nuclear Power’s Unsettled Future, Ozzie Zehner, March-April 2012.

Unlimiting Energy’s Growth, Tsvi Bisk, May-June 2012.

FUTURISM AND FORESIGHT

Change Masters: Weiner, Edrich, Brown, Inc., Edward Cornish, July-August 2012.

A Future-Driven Life Adventure [review of Memories of the Future by Wendell Bell], Rick Docksai, July-August 2012.

Innovating the Future: From Ideas to Adoption, Peter J. Denning, January-February 2012.

To Predict or to Build the Future? Michel Godet, May-June 2012.

Tools for Foresight, with a French Twist [review of Strategic Foresight for Corporate and Regional Development by Michel Godet and Philippe Durance], Rick Docksai, January-February 2012.

Trend Analysis in Action [box], Edie Weiner, July-August 2012.

GENERAL TRENDS AND FORECASTS

The Best Predictions of 2011, FUTURIST staff, January-February 2012.

Outlook 2013, FUTURIST staff, November-December 2012.

The 22nd Century at First Light: Envisioning Life in the Year 2100 [special report], September-October 2012.

• Automated Government, Peter Denning
• Beyond Transhumanism, Gene Stephens
• Bio Age 2100, Olli Hietanen and Marko Ahvenainen
• Energy and Living Well, Paul Bristow
• From Communication to Transmission, Manjul Rathee
• Game Changers for the Next Century, Arthur Shostak
• Geonautics, Gereon Klein
• Healthy Aging in the 22nd Century, Marta M. Keane
• Keys to Future Energy Prosperity, Ozzie Zehner
• Lanes in the Sky, Davidson Barlett
• Life and Love in the Pod, Bart Main
• The Local–Global Duality, Joshua Loughman
• Looking Back: The Wonders We Didn’t Expect, Paul Saffo
• Major Transformations to 2100: Highlights from the TechCast Project, Laura B. Huhn and William Halal
• Meaning for Miranda, Robert Moran
• On Being Human: Questioning Ourselves, David Brin
• Paradise Found: No Aging, No Pensions, Jouni J. Särkijärvi
• Religious Belief in 2100, Gina A. Bellofatto
• Reunion: A Civil War Fable, Cynthia G. Wagner
• Scenarios for Long-Term Thinking, House of Futures (Gitte Larsen, Søren Steen Olsen, and Steen Svendsen)
• Slums: A Catalyst Bed for Poverty Eradication, Eric Meade
• Southern Africa Takes Center Stage, Michael Lee
• Ten Big Questions for 2100, Michael Marien
• 2099: Headlines Warn of Global Cooling, Tsvi Bisk
• When the Storms Came, Richard David Hames
• Where the Wild Things Are Not, Brenda Cooper
• Will We Still Have Money in 2100? Stephen Aguilar-Millan

GOVERNANCE

Building and Connecting Communities for the Future, Center for Communities of the Future, July-August 2012.

Communities of the Future: Case Studies [box], FUTURIST staff, July-August 2012.

Integrated and Innovative: The Future of Regions, John Eger, July-August 2012.

Regulating the Final Frontier, Frans von der Dunk, September-October 2012.

Serving Justice with Conversational Law, David R. Johnson, September-October 2012.

HABITATS

From Smart House to Networked Home, Chris Carbone and Kristin Nauth, July-August 2012.

HEALTH AND MEDICINE

The Human Brain’s Biggest Enemies [box], Hank Pellissier, September-October 2012.

Medical Recycling as Health “REMEDY” [box], Rick Docksai, July-August 2012.

Rescuing the Mind of Africa, Hank Pellissier, September-October 2012.

Revolutionary Health: Local Solutions for Global Health Problems, Rick Docksai, July-August 2012.

A Thousand Years Young, Aubrey de Grey, May-June 2012.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The Abundance Builders, Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler, July-August 2012.

A Brief History of Prize Incentives: Why We Need to Compete [box], Thomas Frey, January-February 2012.

Crossing the Species Boundary: Genetic Engineering as Conscious Evolution, Jeffrey Scott Coker, January-February 2012.

Eight Grand Challenges for Human Advancement, Thomas Frey, January-February 2012.

Engineering the Future of Food, Josh Schonwald, May-June 2012.

Futurists Review the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, Patrick Tucker and Thomas Frey, May-June 2012.

One Response to the Eight Grand Challenges, Richard Yonck, January-February 2012.

The Secret Life of Data in the Year 2020, Brian David Johnson, July-August 2012.

Toward Better Space-Weather Forecasts, Cynthia G. Wagner, March-April 2012.

Welcome to the Future Cloud: Five Bets for 2025, Marcel Bullinga, January-February 2012.

SOCIETY AND VALUES

Anticipating an “Anything Goes” World of Online Porn, Roger Howard, May-June 2012.

Eight Ways That Longer Lives Will Change Us [box], Rick Docksai, May-June 2012.

In Search of the “Better Angels” of Our Future, Kenneth B. Taylor, November-December 2012.

The Individual in a Networked World: Two Scenarios, Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman, July-August 2012.

Sex, Technology, and Machine Morality [box], FUTURIST staff, May-June 2012.

Whatever Happened to Western Civilization? The Cultural Crisis, 20 Years Later, Richard Eckersley, November-December 2012.

WORK AND CAREERS

The Global Talent Chase: China, India, and U.S. Vie for Skilled Workers, Edward E. Gordon, November-December 2012.

Hard at Work in the Jobless Future, James H. Lee, March-April 2012.

WORLD AFFAIRS

The Darker Side of the Sex Industry: Slavery and Sex Trafficking [box], Cynthia G. Wagner, May-June 2012.

A Leaderless World Order? [review of Every Nation for Itself by Ian Bremmer], Rick Docksai, September-October 2012.

Who Will Be Free? The Battles for Human Rights to 2050, Josh Calder, November-December 2012.

The World’s Destiny Is Modernity [review of History of the Future by Max Singer], Rick Docksai, January-February 2012.

WORLD FUTURE SOCIETY

Dream, Design, Develop, Deliver: From Great Ideas to Better Outcomes, Rick Docksai, November-December 2012.

Education, Agency, Crisis, and Emergence: A WorldFuture Sampler [box], David Hochfelder, November-December 2012.

Future Food and Health: A WorldFuture Sampler [box], Joyce Gioia, November-December 2012.

Futurists: BetaLaunch Showcase [box], Patrick Tucker, November-December 2012.

Preview of Future Inventions—Futurists: BetaLaunch 2012, Kenneth J. Moore, July-August 2012.

WORLD TRENDS & FORECASTS

[Written by staff editors Rick Docksai, Kenneth J. Moore, Patrick Tucker, and Cynthia G. Wagner, except where noted.]

COMMERCE

Growing Pains Ahead for China and India, March-April 2012.

Market for Bioplastics, November-December 2012.

“Rateocracy” and Corporate Reputation, Robert Moran, May-June 2012.

The Road Ahead for Gasoline-Free Cars, Jim Motavalli, March-April 2012.

Shakeups in the “C Suite”: Hail to the New Chiefs, Geoffrey Colon, July-August 2012.

EARTH

Biofuels Miss the Mark—So Far, July-August 2012.

Diversity, Discovery, and a Ticking Clock, September-October 2012.

Rising Temperatures Stress Farmlands, May-June 2012.

Solving Renewables’ Storage Problems, Letha Tawney, March-April 2012.

FUTURING

A Curriculum for Foresight, John C. Lundt, November-December 2012.

Dealing with “Warning Fatigue,” March-April 2012.

More -topias, January-February 2012.

Taking Stock in Teaching Forecasting, Byron C. Anderson, January-February 2012.

GOVERNANCE

Connectivity and Accountability in Africa, Matthias Mordi, January-February 2012.

Ecoful Town: A Neighborhood Tour of Green Innovation, November-December 2012.

Investing in Ex-Cons, September-October 2012.

Partnership for a Freer World, March-April 2012.

Waterways to Connect Communities, July-August 2012.

HUMANITY

Chemical Tools for Treating Alcoholism, May-June 2012.

Child Marriage Declines in South Asia, September-October 2012.

Games for Character and Mindfulness, September-October 2012.

The Rise of mChurches: From Mega to Mobile, November-December 2012.

SCI/TECH

Are You Smarter Than a Sixth-Generation Computer? Richard Yonck, September-October 2012.

A Competition for Lunar Enterprise, March-April 2012.

Harvesting Vehicles’ Waste Heat, July-August 2012.

Nanobots to Fight Cancer, May-June 2012.

Sensing Brain Injuries, July-August 2012.

Visualizing Human Intention, January-February 2012.

BOOKS REVIEWED

After the Crime, Susan L. Miller [Books in Brief], March-April 2012.

The Better Angels of Our Nature, Steven Pinker [Books in Brief], May-June 2012.

Birth 2012 and Beyond, Barbara Marx Hubbard [Books in Brief], September-October 2012.

Burdens of Proof, Jean-François Blanchette [Books in Brief], September-October 2012.

But Will the Planet Notice? Gernot Wagner [Books in Brief], January-February 2012.

Communicating with the Future, Thomas Frey [reviewed by Rick Docksai], January-February 2012.

Community Leadership 4.0, Carolyn Corbin [Books in Brief], January-February 2012.

Every Nation for Itself, Ian Bremmer [reviewed by Rick Docksai], September-October 2012.

Evolving, Daniel J. Fairbanks [Books in Brief], July-August 2012.

Forces of Nature, Barry A. Van [Books in Brief], May-June 2012.

The Future of God in the Global Village, Thomas McFaul [Books in Brief], May-June 2012.

The Great Disruption, Paul Gilding [Books in Brief], January-February 2012.

Green Illusions, Ozzie Zehner [Books in Brief], July-August 2012.

History of the Future, Max Singer [reviewed by Rick Docksai], January-February 2012.

India Inside, Nirmalya Kumar and Phanish Puranam [reviewed by Rick Docksai], May-June 2012.

Managing the Future, Stephen M. Millett [Books in Brief], July-August 2012.

Memories of the Future, Wendell Bell [reviewed by Rick Docksai], July-August 2012.

100 Plus, Sonia Arrison [box], May-June 2012, and [Books in Brief], January-February 2012.

Owning Our Future, Marjorie Kelly [reviewed by Rick Docksai], November-December 2012.

Power, Inc., David Rothkopf [Books in Brief], July-August 2012.

The Precarious Human Role in a Mechanistic Universe, John F. Brinster [Books in Brief], January-February 2012.

The Price of Civilization, Jeffrey D. Sachs [reviewed by Rick Docksai], March-April 2012.

The Prosperity of Vice, Daniel Cohen [Books in Brief], September-October 2012.

The Real Population Bomb, P. H. Liotta [Books in Brief], July-August 2012.

Robot Ethics, Patrick Lin, Keith Abney, and George Bekey (eds.) [Books in Brief], July-August 2012, and [box], May-June 2012.

Space Solar Power, John C. Mankins and Nobuyuki Kaya (eds.) [Books in Brief], May-June 2012.

Techno-Fix, Michael Huesemann and Joyce Huesemann [Books in Brief], March-April 2012.

Time Travel and Warp Drives, Allen Everett and Thomas Roman [Books in Brief], March-April 2012.

Virtual Water, Tony Allan [Books in Brief], March-April 2012.

Visionaries Have Wrinkles, Karen Sands [Books in Brief], September-October 2012.

X-Events, John L. Casti [Books in Brief], September-October 2012.

AUTHORS

Aguilar-Millan, Stephen, Will We Still Have Money in 2100? [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012.

Ahvenainen, Marko, and Olli Hietanen, Bio Age 2100 [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012.

Anderson, Byron C., Taking Stock in Teaching Forecasting [World Trends & Forecasts], January-February 2012.

Baines, Lawrence, A Future of Fewer Words? Five Trends Shaping the Future of Language, March-April 2012.

Barlett, Davidson, Lanes in the Sky [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012.

Bellofatto, Gina A., Religious Belief in 2100 [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012.

Bisk, Tsvi, 2099: Headlines Warn of Global Cooling [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012; Unlimiting Energy’s Growth, May-June 2012.

Brin, David, On Being Human: Questioning Ourselves [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012.

Bristow, Paul, Energy and Living Well [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012.

Brynjolfsson, Erik, and Andrew McAfee, Thriving in the Automated Economy, March-April 2012.

Bullinga, Marcel, Welcome to the Future Cloud: Five Bets for 2025, January-February 2012.

Calder, Josh, Who Will Be Free? The Battles for Human Rights to 2050, November-December 2012.

Carbone, Chris, and Kristin Nauth, From Smart House to Networked Home, July-August 2012.

Center for Communities of the Future, Building and Connecting Communities for the Future, July-August 2012.

Chorost, Michael, A World Wide Mind: The Coming Collective Telempathy, March-April 2012.

Coker, Jeffrey Scott, Crossing the Species Boundary: Genetic Engineering as Conscious Evolution, January-February 2012.

Colon, Geoffrey, Shakeups in the “C Suite”: Hail to the New Chiefs [World Trends & Forecasts], July-August 2012.

Cooper, Brenda, Where the Wild Things Are Not [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012.

Cornish, Edward, Change Masters: Weiner, Edrich, Brown, Inc., July-August 2012.

Crossman, William, From the Three Rs to the Four Cs: Radically Redesigning K-12 Education, March-April 2012.

de Grey, Aubrey, A Thousand Years Young, May-June 2012.

Denning, Peter, Automated Government [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012; Innovating the Future: From Ideas to Adoption, January-February 2012.

Diamandis, Peter H., and Steven Kotler, The Abundance Builders, July-August 2012.

Docksai, Rick, Dream, Design, Develop, Deliver: From Great Ideas to Better Outcomes, November-December 2012; An Economy Of, By, and For the People [review of Owning Our Future by Marjorie Kelly], November-December 2012; A Leaderless World Order? [review of Every Nation for Itself by Ian Bremmer], September-October 2012; Revolutionary Health: Local Solutions for Global Health Problems, July-August 2012; Medical Recycling as Health “REMEDY” [box], July-August 2012; A Future-Driven Life Adventure [review of Memories of the Future by Wendell Bell], July-August 2012; India’s Innovation Potential [review of India Inside by Nirmalya Kumar and Phanish Puranam], May-June 2012; Eight Ways That Longer Lives Will Change Us [box], May-June 2012; Renewing Prospects for American Prosperity [review of The Price of Civilization by Jeffrey D. Sachs], March-April 2012; Tools for Foresight, with a French Twist [review of Strategic Foresight for Corporate and Regional Development by Michel Godet and Philippe Durance], January-February 2012; The World’s Destiny Is Modernity [review of History of the Future by Max Singer], January-February 2012.

Eckersley, Richard, Whatever Happened to Western Civilization? The Cultural Crisis, 20 Years Later, November-December 2012.

Eger, John, Integrated and Innovative: The Future of Regions, July-August 2012.

Empel, Emily, The Future of the Commercial Sex Industry, May-June 2012.

Frey, Thomas, Eight Grand Challenges for Human Advancement, January-February 2012; A Brief History of Prize Incentives: Why We Need to Compete [box], January-February 2012.

Frey, Thomas, and Patrick Tucker, Futurists Review the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, May-June 2012.

FUTURIST staff, Outlook 2013, November-December 2012; Communities of the Future: Case Studies [box], July-August 2012; Sex, Technology, and Machine Morality [box], May-June 2012; The Best Predictions of 2011, January-February 2012.

Gioia, Joyce, Future Food and Health: A WorldFuture Sampler [box], November-December 2012.

Godet, Michel, To Predict or to Build the Future? May-June 2012.

Gordon, Edward E., The Global Talent Chase: China, India, and U.S. Vie for Skilled Workers, November-December 2012.

Halal, William, and Laura B. Huhn, Major Transformations to 2100: Highlights from the TechCast Project [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012.

Hames, Richard David, When the Storms Came [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012.

Hietanen Olli, and Marko Ahvenainen, Bio Age 2100 [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012.

Hochfelder, David, Education, Agency, Crisis, and Emergence: A WorldFuture Sampler [box], November-December 2012.

House of Futures (Gitte Larsen, Søren Steen Olsen, and Steen Svendsen), Scenarios for Long-Term Thinking [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012.

Howard, Roger, Anticipating an “Anything Goes” World of Online Porn, May-June 2012.

Huhn, Laura B., and William Halal, Major Transformations to 2100: Highlights from the TechCast Project [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012.

Johnson, Brian David, The Secret Life of Data in the Year 2020, July-August 2012.

Johnson, David R., Serving Justice with Conversational Law, September-October 2012.

Keane, Marta M., Healthy Aging in the 22nd Century [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012.

Klein, Gereon, Geonautics [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012.

Kotler, Steven, and Peter H. Diamandis, The Abundance Builders, July-August 2012.

Lee, James H., Hard at Work in the Jobless Future, March-April 2012.

Lee, Michael, Southern Africa Takes Center Stage [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012.

Loughman, Joshua, The Local–Global Duality [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012.

Lundt, John C., A Curriculum for Foresight [World Trends & Forecasts], November-December 2012.

Mack, Timothy C., Rethinking “Return on Investment”: What We Really Need to Invest In, March-April 2012.

Main, Bart, Life and Love in the Pod [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012.

Marien, Michael, Ten Big Questions for 2100 [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012.

McAfee, Andrew, and Erik Brynjolfsson, Thriving in the Automated Economy, March-April 2012.

Meade, Eric, Slums: A Catalyst Bed for Poverty Eradication [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012.

Moore, Kenneth J., Preview of Future Inventions—Futurists: BetaLaunch 2012, July-August 2012.

Moran, Robert, Meaning for Miranda [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012; “Rateocracy” and Corporate Reputation [World Trends & Forecasts, May-June 2012.

Mordi, Matthias, Connectivity and Accountability in Africa [World Trends & Forecasts], January-February 2012.

Motavalli, Jim, The Road Ahead for Gasoline-Free Cars [World Trends & Forecasts], March-April 2012.

Nauth, Kristin, and Chris Carbone, From Smart House to Networked Home, July-August 2012.

Pellissier, Hank, Rescuing the Mind of Africa, September-October 2012; The Human Brain’s Biggest Enemies [box], September-October 2012.

Pelton, Joseph N., A New Age of Space Business, September-October 2012; Adventure Capitalists: Meet the Space Billionaires [box], September-October 2012.

Rainie, Lee, and Barry Wellman, The Individual in a Networked World: Two Scenarios, July-August 2012.

Rathee, Manjul, From Communication to Transmission [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012.

Saffo, Paul, Looking Back: The Wonders We Didn’t Expect [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012.

Särkijärvi, Jouni J., Paradise Found: No Aging, No Pensions [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012.

Schonwald, Josh, Engineering the Future of Food, May-June 2012.

Shostak, Arthur, Game Changers for the Next Century [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012.

Stephens, Gene, Beyond Transhumanism [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012.

Tawney, Letha, Solving Renewables’ Storage Problems [World Trends & Forecasts], March-April 2012.

Taylor, Kenneth B., In Search of the “Better Angels” of Our Future, November-December 2012.

Tucker, Patrick, Futurists: BetaLaunch Showcase [box], November-December 2012.

Tucker, Patrick, and Thomas Frey, Futurists Review the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, May-June 2012.

von der Dunk, Frans, Regulating the Final Frontier, September-October 2012.

Wagner, Cynthia G., Reunion: A Civil War Fable [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012; The Darker Side of the Sex Industry: Slavery and Sex Trafficking [box], May-June 2012; Toward Better Space-Weather Forecasts, March-April 2012.

Weiner, Edie, Trend Analysis in Action [box], July-August 2012.

Wellman, Barry, and Lee Rainie, The Individual in a Networked World: Two Scenarios, July-August 2012.

Yonck, Richard, Are You Smarter Than a Sixth-Generation Computer? [World Trends & Forecasts], September-October 2012; One Response to the Eight Grand Challenges, January-February 2012.

Zehner, Ozzie, Keys to Future Energy Prosperity [The 22nd Century at First Light, special report], September-October 2012; Nuclear Power’s Unsettled Future, March-April 2012.