Volume 3, no. 3 (Fall 2004)

In this issue

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

Announcements

• 2004 State of the Future, available now!