The Futurist back issues from March 2000:
De-Feminizing the Stroller.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000 ... As modern fathers spend more time with their children, manufacturers may increasingly, design strollers and baby furniture with dads in mind. Fresh from a design internship with Porsche, Royal College of Art student Malte Moessner has designed a new, more "masculine" baby ...
High-Speed Trains for Britain.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000 ... A fleet of high-speed tilting trains will carry passengers along key rail lines in Britain by 2002. The Virgin Rail Group's new West Coast trains will be built by Alstom in Birmingham and will use Fiat Ferroviaria's Pendolino tilting system to ...
Creative Lawsuits.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000 ... Look for more-creative lawsuits in the future. Social activists will become more innovative in their legal fights for corporate change, thanks to recent victories against the tobacco industry, according to Marjorie Kelly, editor of Business Ethics. "It was lawyers fresh from the tobacco ...
Cleaner Power.(Tampa Electric Company converts to natural gas)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000 ... Converting from coal to natural gas will help the Tampa Electric Company decrease overall emissions from its power plants, the company believes. A new program aims to cut 1997-level emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide by 80% and 85% respectively by 2010 ....
University Partnerships.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000 ... Education in the United States would be improved if higher education and the public schools were combined into one system, says John Hoyle, a professor of educational administration at Texas A&M University. Hoyle, who has taught futures studies since 1975, ...
Virtual Education, Government, And Markets.
Mar 01, 2000 ... We are increasingly able to shop, go to school, vote, and do other things without ever leaving home. Communication technologies have connected us more immediately to our institutions--markets, schools, government--even as they have allowed us to keep our distance. In this issue ...
FEEDBACK.
Mar 01, 2000 ... * Spiritual Machines And Crime Prevention I really liked Ray Kurzweil's article "Spiritual Machines: The Merging of Man and Machines" (November 1999). It's mind-boggling as a fairly imminent future. I'm not sure that I agree with Gene Stephens's article, "Preventing ...
Corrections and Clarifications.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000 ... In "Outlook 2000" (December 1999), Herman Kahn's forecast of world population reaching 6.4 billion by 2000 was incorrectly cited; the prediction originally appeared in the February 1968 issue of THE FUTURIST, page 3. In the December 1999 Demography ...
What's Next for the Economy?(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000; ... Deflation? Dow 40,000? Experts offer their strategies. With record numbers of Americans putting their money into stocks, the great bull market of the end of the twentieth century seems like it will keep on making people rich for years to come. Much of the success of stocks is ...
Great Management Decisions.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000 ... In the 1980s, the Grateful Dead rock band encouraged fans to record their concerts--steal their intellectual property. It was a brilliant management decision, according to business writer Stuart Crainer: It ensured fan loyalty of legendary proportions and resulted in millions of dollars of ...
Another Great Migration.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000; ... High U.S. immigration spurs new debate about who's coming to America. The United States is in the midst of yet another great wave of immigration--and another great immigration debate. Anxiety is rising among many natives who fear that the new-arrivals will take away ...
Rise of Singles.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000 ... Singleness is on the rise in the developed world. In the United States, men and women are marrying later than ever before--at age 27.1 for men and 24.8 for women, or about four years later than in 1970, according to the Census Bureau. Women account for 60% of the single ...
Unmarried Motherhood.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000 ... U.S. women under 30 who become pregnant for the first time are now more likely to be unmarried than married, reports the U.S. Census Bureau. The proportion of first births that were conceived out of wedlock to women aged 15-29 nearly tripled in the past six decades, rising to ...
Governments Become Biocapitalists.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000; ... More public resources are directed toward boosting biotech firms. An increasing number of federal, state, and local governments around the world are betting that the biotech industry will boost tax revenue, provide jobs, and otherwise create a better future for their ...
Global Economy Makes Taxing Harder.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000 ... Multinational corporations and wealthy individuals are getting better at avoiding taxes, and the resulting loss of tax revenue may hurt many nations' ability to provide social benefits, according to a United Nations report. The report estimates that offshore deposit holdings, ...
New Intellectual Monopolies.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000 ... Freely shared knowledge is becoming an endangered species. People have become so protective of intellectual property that society risks shutting down progress altogether, according to Seth Shulman, a science writer and author of Owning the Future. Shulman cites numerous examples ...
Sir Arthur C. Clarke's Technology Timeline.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000; ... Possible futures from the author who anticipated communication satellites. I have always resisted all journalistic attempts to label me a prophet," writes Sir Arthur C. Clarke in his recent book, Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! Collected Essays 1934-1998. Nevertheless, so ...
The Fastest Spacecraft Yet?(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000; ... A new concept in solar sails promises to deliver the fastest spacecraft ever. Such a craft could even overtake the Voyager 1 probe, despite its 23-year, 6.9-billionmile head start, and be the first craft to leave our solar system. For decades, scientists have been experimenting ...
Deepwater Oil: The Final Frontier?(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000; ... The search for more fuel leads oil companies out to sea. A recent upswing in commodity oil prices makes the high cost of developing frontier oil areas a little more attractive to producers, but have we reached the final frontiers for oil? Since most of the planet is ...
Second Tier Cities Arise.
Mar 01, 2000; ... Medium-sized industrial cities that fill specific economic niches are growing faster than gigantic urban areas, according to a study funded by the National Science Foundation. The research highlights 14 "second tier" cities in Korea, Brazil, Japan, and the United States. Unlike ...
Clean Car from France.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000 ... An automobile engine that runs on compressed air could help reduce urban air pollution, according to a French company that designs a variety of vehicle power-plants. CQFD Air Solution has been experimenting with new engines that use a special chamber to isolate and control combustion, the ...
Living Faster and Faster.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000; ... The more time we save, the more we do. High-speed living has become a fact of life, and the frantic pace is taking its toll, according to science writer James Gleick. It's as if the old "Type A" behavior of a few has expanded into the "hurry sickness" of the many. ...
Is Your City "Kid-Friendly"?(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000 ... A recent report handed out grades to American cities for their "kid-friendliness." Zero Population Growth (ZPG), an advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., examined data from 229 cities for various quality-of-life indicators that affect how children play, learn, and grow; ...
Genetic Engineering: Dangers and Opportunities.
Mar 01, 2000; ... Genetic engineering could be a boon to sustainable farming or an ecological nightmare, a path to human perfection or a march toward eugenic dystopia. Ready or not, the world is entering the age of genetic engineering. Altered environments and human-created life-forms will be ...
New Options for Mothers.
Mar 01, 2000; ... New reproductive technologies may allow women to reset their biological clocks. With the doors of opportunity springing open and the pill in their handbags, female baby boomers have been able to achieve lifestyles and careers more ambitious and independent than their mothers ...
Technology Remakes the Schools.
Mar 01, 2000; ... Technology has revolutionized the world in which schools operate. Now it's time for educators to catch up to change. A human being miraculously transported from 1900 to our time would recognize much of what goes on in today's classrooms--the prevalent lecturing, the emphasis on ...
The Virtualizing of Education.
Mar 01, 2000; ... By 2025, traditional universities may be a thing of the past, replaced by consortia of course providers with delivery systems that simply bypass the classroom. Education is an absolute imperative in the emerging global knowledge society, so new ways of providing access to ...
Electronic Marketing: What You Can Expect.
Mar 01, 2000; ... The e-marketing industry has a bright future out watch out for some underhanded tactics. The future of marketing is there for anyone to see--just log onto the Internet. In less than a decade the World Wide Web has changed from a research enclave to the Main Street of the world ....
Tomorrow's Reinvented Government: 10 Changes Ahead.
Mar 01, 2000; ... Governments around the world are already using technology to deliver services to citizens anytime, anywhere. Governments are going to change drastically in the next few decades, yet many of the components of future government are operating today. For 11 years, I have ...
A Sampler of Confirmed Speakers and Sessions.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000 ... Walter Truett Anderson, vice president, Meridian International Institute, San Francisco, California. How our psychological evolution might be influenced by developments in human society, technology, education, scientific psychology, and philosophy. Nick Bostrom, coordinator and ...
Trends in the Multigenerational Workplace.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... Today's workplace is peopled by a wider range of age groups with differing attitudes, values, and motivators. Generations at Work intends to help managers deal with colleagues and employees from different age groups, but the book's descriptions of the special traits and values ...
The View Ahead From Down Under.(Review)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000 ... Futures for the Third Millennium: Enabling the Forward View by Richard A. Slaughter. Prospect Media. 1999. 381 pages. Paperback. Available from the Futurist Bookstore for $35 ($29.50 for Society members), cat. no. B-2283. Richard Slaughter, professor of foresight at the ...
The Law of the Dow Jones Jungle.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000 ... An S-Shaped Trail to Wall Street: Survival of the Fittest Reigns at the Stock Market by Theodore Modis. Growth Dynamics, Rue Beau Site 2,1203 Geneva, Switzerland. Telephone 41-22-345-5624; Web site www.growth-dynamics.com. 1999. 201 pages. Paperback. $49. (Order online from ...
Who's Who Tomorrow.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000 ... A View from the Year 3000: A Ranking of the 100 Most Influential Persons of All Time by Arturo Kukeni, a descendant of" Michael H. Hart. Poseidon Press. 1999. 430 pages. Paperback. Available from the Futurist Bookstore for $20 ($17.95 for Society members), cat. no. B-2293. ...
Naisbilt Attacks "High Tech Intoxication".(Review)
Mar 01, 2000 ... High Tech * High Touch: Technology and Our Search for Meaning by John Naisbitt with Nana Naisbitt and Douglas Philips. Broadway Books. 1999. 274 pages. Available from the Futurist Bookstore for $25 ($22.95 for Society members), cat. no. B-2305. America has always had a steady ...
Working While "Retired".(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000 ... A big surprise awaits many baby boomers: After they're "retired," they'll still have to work. According to career counselor Helen Harkness, only 10% ofboomers believe they will work after age 65, yet just 25% will have saved enough money by then to retire completely. ...
Gene Therapy for Improving Learning and Memory?(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000 ... Adults may one day be able to learn and remember things as easily as they did in their youth. Princeton University neurobiologist Joe Tsien and colleagues report that adding a single gene, NR2B, to mice significantly increased the animals' ability to solve maze problems and to ...
OBITUARY.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000 ... Socioeconomist Robert Theobald Dies Robert Theobald, widely known for his books and speeches on socioeconomic problems, died November 27, 1999, at his home in Spokane, Washington. He was 70 years old. Theobald constantly urged a change in direction of society. He felt ...
UNESCO Forms Council On the Future.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000 ... A council of "virtual" advisers has been formed to assist the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization in developing its future-oriented projects. The Council on the Future is a network of authorities who serve as "contacts and intermediaries for UNESCO ...
Arlington Institute Will Monitor Society's "Vital Signs".(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000 ... The Arlington Institute has launched a new project to gauge the American social response to large-scale change. The new Vital Signs Monitor (VSM) "is unique in that it recognizes and dissects the relationship between values and behavior," according to Institute spokesperson Donna ...
Fads vs. Trends.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000 ... What's the difference between a fad and a trend? The Brand Futures Group, the trend-watching arm of the advertising firm Young & Rubicam, says that this is one of the most frequently asked questions of their clients. The difference matters "to everyone who believes that ...
Dominant Institutions and Their Responsibilities.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2000; ... The buildings that have dominated society's skylines belonged first to religion, then to government, and now to corporations. Until about 400 years ago, before the days of Galileo, Copernicus, and Newton, the church was the dominant institution in society, and it took ...