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

Third Transcultural Thematic Issue

“Transcultural Impacts and Perspectives on the Future”

Perspectives from Finland, France, India, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United
States of America, and Venezuela.

In this 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