Magazine Issues - Table of Contents

Summer 2011 (Vol. 10, no. 3)

geostrategic thematic issue

Articles

• Introduction to the Issue: The Second String, by Stephen Aguilar-Millan, Director of Research, European Futures Observatory
• South Africa in Transition: the Path to 2030, by J. P. Landman, political economy analyst, and Tanja Hichert, scenario planning practitioner
• Turkey: Key Strategic Uncertainties to 2030, by Adrian Papaiani, international relations consultant
• Indonesia: A Quest for Modernity, by Craig Stevenson, independent futurist
• Nigeria’s Future: Good Times Ahead?, by Robert P. Bood, FairSights

Late Spring 2011 (Vol. 10, no. 2)

Summer 2011 Reading Issue

Book Reviews

• The Evolution of Future Consciousness and Contemporary Futurist Thought, by Tom Lombardo, reviewed by Bengt-Arne Vedin
• MegaCrunch! Ten Survival Strategies for 21st Century Challenges, by Joseph N. Pelton and Peter Marshall, reviewed by Tsvi Bisk
• Technology’s Promise, by Bill Halal, reviewed by José Cordeiro
• State of the Future 2010, by Jerry Glenn et.al., reviewed by Lois Neuman
• Anticipate the School You Want, by Arthur Shostak, reviewed by Tommy Osborne
• Weak Signals in Organizational Learning, by Elina Hiltunen, reviewed by Bengt-Arne Vedin

Spring 2011 (Vol. 10, no. 1)

fourth transcultural thematic issue

From the Issue Sponsor, Children Creating Bridges, Inc.

• Front Cover
• Children Creating Bridges, Inc.
• About the Cover

Articles

• Fall of Western-Supported Dictatorships in the Middle East and North Africa: A New Beginning, by Farah Rishi, student, Byrn Mawr College, and Mazhar Rishi, President, Children Creating Bridges, Inc.
• The Effects of Technology and Globalization on Society and the Individual in Developing Countries, Now and in the Future, by M. Anjum Irfan, founder and director of the Mind Body Institute of Chester County and faculty member, CCB Institute for Peace, Justice, and Interfaith Dialog, Children Creating Bridges, Inc., and Madiha Irfan, student, Byrn Mawr College
• Tragedy and Nationhood: The Sepoy “Mutiny” of 1857 and the Terrorist Attack of September 11, 2001, by Jeffery P. Heim, Director, CCB Institute for Peace, Justice, and Interfaith Dialog, Children Creating Bridges, Inc.
• One Path to Better Food Sufficiency, by Barrie Eichhorn, faculty member, CCB Institute for Peace, Justice, and Interfaith Dialog, Children Creating Bridges, Inc.

CCB Volunteers and Friends – Voices from Those Making a Difference

• Looming Threats to Africa and Its People: Intensive Food Production and Land-Leasing, by Anteneh Roba, Founder, Amsale Gessesse Foundation and President, International Fund for Africa
• The Struggle for Iraqi Artists, by Kim Schultz, actress and writer
• Bridging Counterpoint-Based Identity, by Daniel Orr, writer and business owner
• The Future of Education in Ethiopia, by Yemane Muzey, Co-founder, Zorat.org

Upcoming FUTUREtakes-sponsored event at World Future 2011 in Vancouver!

• Special Session at World Future 2011 – "Transcultural Impacts on the Future"!

2010-2011 (vol. 9, no. 1)

Articles

• Frameworking Future Innovation, by Bengt-Arne Vedin, professor emeritus, innovation science
• The New Pioneers, or … The Three Musketeers Meet Bucky Fuller, by  John Renesch, faculty member, Center for Leadership Studies, and advisor to the Sustainable Futures Foundation
• A Future Forward Workforce, by Rick Smyre, President, Center for Communities of the Future
• Political Correctness – 2029, by Jay Herson, Managing Editor, FUTUREtakes, and Secretary-Treasurer, Center for Transcultural Foresight, Inc.
• Vertical Farming, by Gioietta Kuo, Senior fellow, American Center for International Policy Studies

Upcoming FUTUREtakes-sponsored event at World Future 2011 in Vancouver!

• Special Session at World Future 2011 – “Transcultural Impacts on the Future”!

Announcements

• A New Master’s Course in Foresight and Innovation
• A Tribute to Susan Echard, 1944-2010

Fall-Winter 2009-2010 (vol. 8, no. 2)

Articles

• Space: The Next Energy Frontier, by Carolyn Stauffer, Adjunct Faculty, Science Department, Eastern Mennonite University
• The Weak Signal of Mobile Governance, by Rick Smyre, President, Center for Communities of the Future, and Norma Owen, President, Avadon, LLC
• From Red China to Green China, by Stephen Aguilar-Millan, Director of Research, The European Futures Observatory
• Seven Positive Trends Amidst the Gloom and Doom, by Sohail Inayatullah, Professor, Tamkang University, and Adjunct Professor, University of the Sunshine Coast
• New Technologies to Sustain Transport Futures, by Gioietta Kuo, Senior Fellow, American Center for International Policy Studies
• Highlights: World Future 2009, by Jay Herson, Managing Editor, Futuretakes

Columns

• From the Desk of Tim Mack, President, World Future Society

Special Feature

• NOMORE – The Kingdom that Missed Weak Signals

Upcoming events co-hosted by Futuretakes at World Future 2010 in Boston!

• Special Session – Transcultural Perspectives and Impacts on the Future!
• Chapter Activities / Futurist Interest Group Session!

Spring-Summer 2009 (vol. 8, no. 1)

third transcultural thematic issue

Articles

• How will you live and work tomorrow? Transnational Roundtable featuring Elina Hiltunen (Finland), José Cordeiro (Venezuela), Eleonora Masini (Italy), Louis Tuvée (France), Mohan Tikku (India), Bengt-Arne Vedin (Sweden), and Sungjoo K. Ogino (Japan)
• Intercultural Communication and Negotiation: Insights on the U.S. – Japanese Relationship, by Linda Groff, Director, Global Options Consulting, and Professor, Political Science and Future Studies, California State University
• The Future of Sports: Top Down, Bottom Up or Both?, by Ken Harris, The Consilience Group, LLC
• Local Governance and Global Citizenship, by Riccardo Cinquegrani, Joint Professor of Human and Social Foresight, Pontificia Università Gregoriana
• Pakistan – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, by Mazhar Rishi, Vice President, Children Creating Bridges
• Changing Times – Changing Identity, by Anita Rubin, Adjunct Professor in Futures Education, Turku School of Economics

Column

• From the Desk of Tim Mack, President, World Future Society

People

• Henry Fung – Publication Design Pioneer

Winter 2008-2009 (vol. 7, no. 3)

Articles

• Pakistan’s Alternative Futures – Beyond the Pendulum of the Military General and the Politician, by Sohail Inayatullah, Professor, Tamkang University, Taiwan and Adjunct Professor, the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
• The Automation of Thought – Information Technology Holds the Key to Global Maturity, by William E. Halal, Professor, the George Washington University
• Visioning and Creating Our Shared Future – Engaging Everyone, by Brenda Walsh, OP, Member of the Dominican Order

Book Review / Futurist Book Group (FBG) Discussion Synopsis

• Lockout, by Michele Wucker, synopsized by Ken Harris
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by Malcolm Gladwell, synopsized by Ken Harris

Columns

• From the Desk of Tim Mack, President, World Future Society
• Can you already see the weak signals of the next economic boom?, by Elina Hiltunen, Futurist and Strategic Foresight Manager at Nokia Group and Editor, Weak Signals, Futuretakes
• The Think Tank

Fall 2008 (vol. 7, no. 2)

Articles

• Smart Mobs and Generation X Democracy – “The more broadband penetration, the less is leadership popularity,” by Youngsook Park, Chair of UN Future Forum (Millennium Project Korea Node of WFUNA), and Chair of World Future Society Korea
• The Future of K-12 Public Education, by Charles A. Hagberg

Book Review / Futurist Book Group (FBG) Discussion Synopsis

• Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube and the Future of American Politics, by Morley Winograd and Mike Hais, synopsized by Ken Harris

Columns

• From the Desk of Tim Mack, President, World Future Society
• The Think Tank

Synopsis

• “The Great Challenges Today and Tomorrow,” presentation by Dr. Jerome C. Glenn, Director, Millennium Project, World Federation of United Nations Associations, synopsized by Jay Herson

Conference Photo

• Futuretakes Editors at World Future 2008

Spring-Summer 2008 (vol. 7, no. 1)

second transcultural thematic issue

Articles

• The West and Islam: Back to the Future, by Samah Alrayyes Norquist, founder, Global Partners, LLC
• Global Agriculture 2020, by Timothy C. Mack, President, World Future Society
• Syria – an Inside Look, by Wendy Keslick, Executive Director, Children Creating Bridges
• Children Creating Bridges, companion article to Syria – an Inside Look
• Organizational Culture – Preparing for Future Strategic Practices, by Robert Angel, president, The Gilford Group Ltd.
• Accommodating the Flow of People, by Stephen Aguilar-Millan, Director of Research at the European Futures Observatory
• Leading Social Adaptation (LSA) – An Empirical Approach, by David Day, founding partner, Incite Leadership
• South Africa’s Youth Bulge: Risk or Opportunity?, by Itha Taljaard, founder, Sense2Solve
• Contributions of Different Cultural-Religious Traditions to Different Aspects of Peace – Leading to a Holistic, Integrative View of Peace for a 21st Century Interdependent World, by Linda Groff, Director, Global Options Consulting, and Professor, Political Science and Future Studies, California State University
• Awakening to a Transformed Future, by Sohail Inayatullah, Professor, Tamkang University, and Adjunct Professor, University of the Sunshine Coast
• Group Discussion and Images of the Future: a Pilot Study of a Classroom Setting, by Simone Arnaldi, Director, Jacques Maritain Foundation, and lecturer of sociology, University of Trieste

Book Review / Futurist Book Group (FBG) Discussion Synopsis

• DOUBLE FEATURE! Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century, by Mark Leonard, and The Last Days of Europe, by Walter Laqueur, discussed jointly at Futurist Book Group meeting, synopsized by Ken Harris

Special Feature

• What if?  Uncovering your hidden assumptions

Winter 2007-2008 (vol. 6, no. 4)

Articles

• The Second Cold War: 2006-2018, a scenario, as described in the 2032 edition of a well-known encyclopedia, by Aguilar-Millan, Director of Research, The European Futures Observatory
• The Scientific Method After Next, by Dave Stein

Book Review / Futurist Book Group (FBG) Discussion Synopsis

• Changing Rhythms of American Family Life, by Suzanne M. Bianchi, John P. Robinson, and Melissa A. Milkie, synopsized by Ken Harris
• Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food (California Studies in Food and Culture), by Warren Belasco, synopsized by Ken Harris
• Future Inc. – How Businesses Can Anticipate and Profit from What’s NEXT, by Eric Garland, reviewed by Jay Herson

Column

• From the Desk of Tim Mack, President, World Future Society

Chapters’ Corner

• Building Vibrant Organizations, by Verónica Trovamala, Chapters’ Corner Editor

Announcements

• Coming in June 2008 – Second Transcultural Thematic Issue!
• Invitation to Join Weak Signals Group!, by Elina Hiltunen

Fall 2007 (vol. 6, no. 3)

Articles

• Information Technology (and Demographic Necessity) will Transform Healthcare, by David Pearce Snyder, Consulting Futurist
• Systemic Visioning and Innovation for Equitable and Sustainable Socio-Economic Development, by John ‘Zac’ Zachariassen, President, The Solertia Institute

Book Review / Futurist Book Group (FBG) Discussion Synopsis

• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nassim Nicholas Talib, synopsized by Ken Harris
• Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future, by Orrin H. Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, reviewed by Jay Herson

Columns

• From the Desk of Tim Mack, President, World Future Society

Announcements

• Global Reach: Share Your Nation’s or Culture’s Perspectives and Lessons for the Future!
• Professors and teachers, we want to hear from you!
• A note of appreciation

Summer 2007 (vol. 6, no. 2)

Articles

• The Dragon and the Tiger Revisited, by Stephen Aguilar-Millan, Director of Research, The European Futures Observatory
• Where do Future-Oriented People Find Weak Signals?, by Elina Hiltunen, Finland Futures Research Centre
• Highlights from World Future 2007: Fostering Hope and Vision for the 21st Century, by Jay Herson, Senior Associate, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Senior Associate, Institute for Alternative Futures; and Managing Editor, Futuretakes

Book Review / Futurist Book Group (FBG) Discussion Synopsis

• The Boomerang Age: Transitions to Adulthood in Families, by Barbara A. Mitchell, synopsized by Carolyn Shettle and Lisa Roney
• When the Rivers Run Dry: Water – the Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century, by Fred Pearce, synopsized and reviewed by Ken Harris

Columns

• From the Desk of Tim Mack, President, World Future Society

Chapters Corner

• Reinventing the Chapters Corner, by Verónica Trovamala

Conference Photo

• Futuretakes Editors at World Future 2007

Announcement

• Call for articles: Second Thematic Issue, “Transcultural Perspectives and Impacts on the Future”

Spring 2007 (vol. 6, no. 1)

first transcultural thematic issue

Articles

• The Irresistible Soft Power of Ukraine, by Olexandr Aleksandrovych, Minister-Counselor, Embassy of Ukraine in Washington DC
• A French Touch, by Louis Tuvée, Coordinator, WFS French Chapter
• Futures Studies Activities in Germany: Towards a Perspective of Foresight, Cornelia Daheim, Z_punkt GmbH The Foresight Company, Germany
• A Multicultural Millennium, by Jennifer Butler, President, Racially and Ethnically Mixed Student Association (REMIX), The George Washington University
• Revolution of Traditionalism: Look at Future, by Mamuka Tsereteli, Executive Director of the America-Georgia Business Council, and part time faculty member at George Washington and American Universities in Washington, DC
• Armenia, by Karinne’ Hovnanian and Emanuel Mkrtchian, Co-Presidents, Armenian Student Network, The George Washington University
• Future’s Trends: Culture vs. Institutions?, by Bengt-Arne Vedin, Professor of Innovation Management, Mälardalen University; Fellow, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering; Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science; and Fellow, Swedish Verbovisual Academy
• Africa, Fast-Forwarding Into the Future, by Carolyn Stauffer, futurist and freelance writer
• Getting to 2025: Inspiring Cross-Cultural Leadership, by David Day, founding partner, Incite Leadership
• The State of Culture 2025: the “Meta-Question,” by Nathaniel Wade, researcher
• Reflections on Identity in an Increasingly Interdependent World, by Linda Groff, Director, Global Options Consulting, and Professor, Political Science and Future Studies, California State University

Columns

• From the Desk of Tim Mack, President, World Future Society

Announcements

• We’re doing it again – thematic issue encore!
• Free accommodations provided for futurists by Semyung University, Jecheon, South Korea

Winter 2006-2007 (vol. 5, no. 4)

Articles

• Throwaway Economy in Trouble, by Lester R. Brown, Founder and President, Earth Policy Institute
• The Globalization of Science, Spirituality, and Peace, by Joseph R. Giove, Founder and Executive Director, CommonPassion.org
• Futurist History Comes Out of the Closet, by Jay Herson, Managing Editor, Futuretakes
• On the Future of Palestine, the Middle East, and Our Well-Being, by Arthur B. Shostak, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Drexel University

Book Reviews / Futurist Book Group (FBG) Discussion Synopses

• National Differences, Global Similarities: World Culture and the Future of Schooling, by David P. Baker and Gerald K. LeTendre, synopsized by Lisa Roney and Carolyn Shettle

Columns

• From the Desk of Tim Mack, President, World Future Society

Synopsis

• Anticipatory Learning Strategies for Schools and Organizations, program by Marsha Rhea

Chapters Corner

• Chapter Activities Session 2006 – Revisited

Announcements

• You are Invited to Participate!  A Groundbreaking Study on Weak Signals by the Finland Futures Research Centre
• Conference: TransVision2007

Late Fall 2006 (vol. 5, no. 3)

Articles

• Employing Geoethics to Avoid Negative Nanotechnology Scenarios in Undeveloped Countries, by Guido David Núñez-Mujica
  
• Professor Leon Fuerth and the Case for Forward Engagement, by Natalie Ambrose
• Downloading Education, by Jay Herson

Book Reviews / Futurist Book Group (FBG) Discussion Synopses

• Common Destiny: Filipino American Generations, by Juanita Tamayo Lott, reviewed by Luceli C. Cuasay

Column

• From the Desk of Tim Mack, President, World Future Society

Program Synopses

• The Widening Gaps in Pharmaceutical Therapies: Cost – Health – Trust, panel discussion by Bill Rowley, Institute for Alternative Futures; Jay Herson, Johns Hopkins University; and Mat Salo, National Governors Conference; moderated by Eric Garland, Competitive Futures, Inc.
• Ten Tips for Creating More Powerful Future Stories, program by Joseph Tankerley, Walt Disney Imagineering

Chapters Corner

• Draft for the Strengthening of the Local Chapters of the World Future Society, by Julio A. Millán, President, WFS Mexico Chapter

People

• Ken Harris is First Recipient of Exemplary Service Award

Announcement

• Students, Teachers, and Professors – Get Published!

Summer-Fall 2006 (vol. 5, no. 2)

Articles

• South Korea – Leader in E-Democracy, by Youngsook Park, President, WFS South Korea Chapter
• Globality and Futurity: Innovation Frameworks for 21st Century Training, by Irving H. Buchen, Capella University and IMPAC University, and Albert John Cacace, Multimedia Republic
• World Future 2006 – July 28-30, Toronto, by Jay Herson

Book Reviews / Futurist Book Group (FBG) Discussion Synopses

• Future Washington, by Ernest Lilley (ed.), synopsized by Ken Harris

Program Synopsis

• Storytelling the Future, program by Joseph Tankersley, Walt Disney Imagineering

Chapters Corner

• Synopsis: Chapter Activities Session 2006

Announcement

• Students, Teachers, and Professors – Get Published!

Spring 2006 (vol. 5, no. 1)

Articles

• IPv6: the World’s New Internet Protocol – Is America Ready to Defend its Leadership of the InternetUniverse?, by Mr. Joel B. Coulter, President, Mobile Sciences Consortium, LLC, and Dr. Samuel Lee Hancock, President, Hancock International and Executive Director, The Eurasia Center
• The Future of Mainstream and Non-Traditional Religion, by Dave Stein
• Looking Forward … and Backward, by Jay Herson

Book Reviews / Futurist Book Group (FBG) Discussion Synopses

• The World is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman, synopsized by Ken Harris

Columns

• From the Desk of Tim Mack, President, World Future Society
• Future (Re)Takes, by Russell Wooten

Program Synopses

• The Future of Transportation in the Washington D.C. Region in 2030, panel by Patricia Nicoson, President of the Dulles Corridor Rail Association, Ron Kirby, Director of Transportation, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG), Gary Maule, Principal, RTKL Associates, Inc., and Michael Huerta, Affiliated Computer Services, Inc.

Commentary

• The Future Calls for a New Way of Seeing, of Being, of Doing, by Sr. Brenda Walsh

Chapters Corner / Chapter News

• Minnesota Futurists, by Earl C. Joseph
• Futurist Book Group, Ken Harris, Coordinator

Announcements

• Calling All Nationalities and Cultures!  Special Thematic Issue!
• Upcoming conference -- TransVision06: Emerging Technologies of Human Enhancement.

Winter 2005-2006 (vol. 4, no. 3)

Articles

• Wanted – Futures Travel Now!, by Arthur B. Shostak
• A $40 Trillion Legacy?, by Haeworth Robertson (reprinted by permission of the Society of Actuaries from The Actuary vol, 2, no. 4, August/September 2005
• The Next 35 Years, by Jay Herson

Book Reviews / Futurist Book Group (FBG) Discussion Synopses

• The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Peril of Tomorrow’s Neuroscience, by Steven Rose, synopsized by Ken Harris
• Anticipate the World You Want: Learning for Alternative Futures, by Marsha Lynne Rhea, reviewed by Maya Horton

Columns

• From the Desk of Tim Mack, President, World Future Society
• Future Lite, by Lindan Lee Johnson

Program Synopses

• FROM: Unknown Alternative Future Worlds TO: Prudent Defense Technology Investments, program by Dave Stein
• The Center for Frontier Sciences (companion to Alternative Future Worlds program synopsis)
• The Future of Social Security, program by Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC
• The Future of Leadership, program by Herb Rubenstein, Growth Strategies, Inc.

Commentary

• Reply to Tommy Osborne

Chapters’ Corner

• From Chapter Activities Session 2005

Chapter News

• Futurist Book Group, Ken Harris, Coordinator

Summer-Fall 2005 (vol. 4, no. 2)

Articles

• Through the Present – Into the Future of Psychiatry, by Maurie D. Pressman, M.D.
• Future Scenarios for the Profession of Nursing, by Barbara Ann D’Anna
• To Exit with Grace: New Directions for Futurists, by Juanita Tamayo Lott
• World Future 2005 – Foresight, Innovation, and Strategy: A Conference Snapshot, by Jay Herson

Book Reviews / Futurist Book Group (FBG) Discussion Synopses

• Collapse, by Jared Diamond, synopsized by Ken Harris

Columns

• From the Desk of Tim Mack, President, World Future Society

Program Synopsis

• Climate Change: An Inter-Generational Hot Potato, program by Peter Schultz, Associate Director for Science Integration at the Climate Change Science Program Office
  • Koshland Science Museum (companion to Climate Change program synopsis)

Commentary

• Comments on “Learning Environment for the 21st Century” by Lois Neuman

Conference Photos

• 2005 Editors’ Luncheon and 2005 Chapter Activities Session

Chapters’ Corner

• “How NOT to attract members, participants, and volunteers”

Chapter News

• Futurist Book Group, Ken Harris, Coordinator

Spring 2005 (vol. 4, no. 1)

Articles

• Learning Environment for the 21st Century, by Lois H. Neuman
• The Future of Armed Strife, by Dave Stein

Book Reviews / Futurist Book Group (FBG) Discussion Synopses

• Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New Methods for Quantitative Long-Term Policy Analysis, by Robert J. Lempert, Steven W. Popper, and Steven C. Bankes, reviewed by Jay Herson
• Who Will Pay, by Peter S. Heller, synopsized by Ken Harris
• The Progress Paradox, by Gregg Easterbrook, synopsized by Ken Harris
• Fewer, by Ben J. Wattenberg, synopsized by Ken Harris

Columns

• The Think Tank
• Future Lite, by Lindan Lee Johnson

Program Synopses

• Is a New Constitution in Our U.S. Future, program by Joseph F. Coates, founder, Coates &Jarratt, Inc.
• Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public, program by Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg, Professors, Johns Hopkins University
• Integrated Revitalization, program by Storm Cunningham, Executive Director of the Revitalization Institute and CEO of Revitalization Strategies, Inc.

Commentary

• “A Perspective on Foresight Studies”

Chapter News

• Futurists’ Top 10 Ideas to Revitalize Ohio, by David J. Staley, President, Columbus Chapter
• Futurist Book Group, Ken Harris, Coordinator

Winter 2004-2005 (vol. 3, no. 4)

Articles

• Creating an Unreasonable Future, by Monika Kosmahl Aring, senior analyst, RTI International
• The Rise of the Self: Why the ‘Individual’ is Becoming Increasingly Paramount, by Carolyn Swarr Stauffer, freelance writer
• The Future Generations Fund, by Tim Mack, President, World Future Society
• Terrorism – the Future of War or Just Another Phase?, by Tommy T. Osborne, COL (ret), US Army
• Thinking Outside the Box – A Practical Lesson, by Jay Herson, Managing Editor, Futuretakes

Book Reviews / Futurist Book Group (FBG) Discussion Synopses

• Futures Research Methodology, version 2.0, by Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon, American Council for The United Nations University, reviewed by Jay Herson
• The Wisdom of Crowds, by James Surowiecki, synopsized by Ken Harris
• Digital Soul, by Thomas Georges, synopsized by Ken Harris
• The Hype About Hydrogen, by Joseph J. Romm, synopsized by Ken Harris

Columns

• From The Desk of Tim Mack, President, World Future Society
• The Think Tank
• Future Lite, by Lindan Lee Johnson

Program Synopses

• Megaforces Changing Health Care: How will we receive care in 2025?, program by Dr. Bill Rowley
• Emerging Weapon of Mass Destruction Technologies: Impact on US Security, program by Forrest Waller
• The Great Energy Transition, program by Robert L. Olsen

Chapter News

• From the WFS Korea Chapter, by Youngsook Park, President
• From the WFS Venezuela Chapter, by José Cordeiro, President
• Futurist Book Group, Ken Harris, Coordinator

Announcements

• Condolences
• Futuretakes Joins the “Major Leagues”!

Fall 2004 (vol. 3, no. 3)

Articles

• The Rise and Fall of Civilizations, by Darlow Botha
• Consumers Hold Today’s Key to Managing Business Uncertainty, (reprinted by permission from the IAF Newsletter April 2004 edition)

Book Reviews / Futurist Book Group (FBG) Discussion Synopses

• Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male Population, by Valerie M. Hudson and Andrea M. den Boer, synopsized by Ken Harris
• The Next Big Thing is Really Small, by Jack Uldrich and Deb Newberry, synopsized by Ken Harris

Columns

• Future(Re) Takes, by Russell Wooten
• The Think Tank
• Future Lite, by Lindan Lee Johnson

Program Synopses

• The Cyborgization Of Humans And What This Means For Our Lives In The Future And Today, program by Mark Bayliss, CEO of Visual Link Inc., Joel Coulter, Xybernaut Corporation, and Roosevelt Ellison, Xybernaut Corporation
• The Future of Sex, program by Eric Garland, former president, WFS Washington DC Chapter
• From Housecalls to House Calls, program by Dick Smith
• Integral Futures: What This Is and How to Employ the Theory, program by Professor Richard Alan Slaughter

Announcement

• 2004 State of the Future, available now!

Summer 2004 (vol. 3, no. 2)

Articles

• Future Life Among Posthumans, by José Luis Cordeiro, President, WFS Venezuela Chapter
• RFID Current and Future Uses, by Russell Wooten
• Space Security via the Olympic Spirit, by Martin Schwab
• Brain Research Shakes Up Assumptions, (reprinted by permission from the IAF Newsletter May 2004 edition)

Book Review

• Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests, by Ralph E. Gomory and William J. Baumol, reviewed by Calvin Olano

Columns

• From the Desk of Tim Mack, President, World Future Society
• Future (Re)Takes, by Russell Wooten
• The Think Tank
• Future Lite, by Lindan Lee Johnson

Program Synopses

• The Millennium Project, program by Jerry Glenn, Director of the Millennium Project at the American Council for the United Nations University
• Futuring: Preparing for a Changing World, program by Ed Cornish, outgoing president, World Future Society
• The Post-Biological Universe, program by Steven Dick, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• You Can Change the World, program by Ervin Laszlo, Founder, Club of Budapest

Winter-Spring 2004 (vol. 3, no. 1)

Articles

• Beating Swords, Shields and Plowshares into Planetary Defense, by Martin Schwab
• Global Insights on Emerging Issues (reprinted by permission from the IAF Newsletter August 2003 edition)

Columns

• Biometrics: A Future Take, by Russell Wooten
• The Think Tank
• Future Lite, by Lindan Lee Johnson

Foresight Exercises

• Exercise 1, by leading futurists Joe Coates, Eric Garland, and Dick Smith
• Exercise 2, by leading futurists Joe Coates and Eric Garland

Program Synopsis

• The Restoration Economy, program by Storm Cunningham, Executive Director, The Restoration Economy

Discussion Threads

• Discussion Thread on Demographic Issues:  Demography as Destiny, by Juanita Tamayo Lott
• Discussion Thread on Cultural Diversity, by Tommy T. Osborne

Spring 2003 (vol. 2, no. 1)

Article

• Communities Promoting Active Living (reprinted by permission from the IAF Newsletter April 2003 edition)

Book Review

• The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History, by David Hackett Fischer; reviewed by Calvin Olano

Program Synopsis

• Balancing Privacy and Security, presented by Bruce McConnell, president, McConnell International

Discussion Threads

• Discussion Thread on Demographic Issues:  Demography as Destiny, and Demography in a Global Village, by Juanita Tamayo Lott
• Discussion Thread on Evolving Concepts and Uses of Time, by Tommy T. Osborne
• Discussion Thread on Cultural Diversity, by Dave Stein

Announcement

• Now available!  2002 State of the Future