Futurist Top Ten Forecasts for 2008 and Beyond!
Business professor Nat Irvin II (University of Louisville) tells a personal story about his partial blindness and his insights as a futurist at the World Future Society's 2007 conference. He will chair the Society's 2008 conference in Washington, D.C. Details at http://www.wfs.org
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Biomedical researcher Gregory Stock, author of "Redesigning Humans," speaks on "Biotechnology and Health Care: The Road Ahead" in this excerpt from his presentation at the World Future Society's 2007 conference. Details go to www.wfs.org
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Dr. Helen Fisher, author of "Why We Love," addresses the World Future Society's 2007 conference, describing the impacts of antidepressants on the brain systems associated with romance and attachment. For more information visit http://www.wfs.org
THE FUTURIST is a bimonthly magazine published continuously since 1967 by the World Future Society and is a principal benefit of membership, read by 25,000 members worldwide. We are also available on newsstands coast to coast in the United States.
Among the many influential thinkers and experts who have contributed to THE FUTURISTare: Al Gore, Alvin and Heidi Toffler, Buckminster Fuller, Frederik Pohl, Isaac Asimov, Vaclav Havel, Hazel Henderson, and Margaret Mead.
In the past year, THE FUTURISThas featured articles and columns by William G. Mitchell and Joel Garreau on urban planning;
Ray Kurzweil, John Smart, and J. Storrs Hall on the Singularity;
Daniel Barnett of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on flu pandemic;
Andrew Bacevich and Edward N. Luttwak on U.S. defense posture;
Pulitzer Prize nominee James Martin on the existential challenges of the twenty-first century;
NRDC vehicles campaign director Deron Lovaas and former CIA director James Woolsey Jr. on energy independence;
New Atlantis editor Christine Rosen and New York Times Company futurist-in-residence Michael Rogers on media futures;
and U.S. Comptroller General David M. Walker on U.S. fiscal policy, among many others. THE FUTURIST was recently nominated for an Utne Independent Press Award for Best Science and Technology Coverage.
