Volume 5, no. 1 (Spring 2006)

In this issue

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 discussion 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