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050 00 $aCB161$b.A1155 2003
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245 00 $a21st century opportunities and challenges :$ban age of destruction or an age of transformation /$cedited and with a preface by Howard F. Didsbury, Jr.
246 3 $aTwenty first century opportunities and challenges
260 $aBethesda, Md. :$bWorld Future Society,$cc2003.
300 $axix, 344 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm
500 $a"World Future Society's conference volume for its San Francisco meeting, July 18-20, 2003"--P. [vi].
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aThe tyranny of the righteous / Howard F. Didsbury, Jr. -- Convergence and collision : assessing the impacts of emerging scientific and technological innovations by using applied foresight / Lynn Elen Burton -- Technology forecasting and assessment in the United States : status and prospects / Vary T. Coates -- Global science and technology risk identification and management / Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon -- State of the future index (SOFI) : a method for improving decision making that affects the future / Theodore J. Gordon -- Reassessing risk assessment / Douglas Mulhall -- Globalization : social disruption right ahead / J. Ørstøm Møller -- Globalization, heritage buildings, and the 21st century economy / Donovan D. Rypkema -- Keep the CON in economics : why economic forecasting doesn't work / Barry H. Minkin -- The need for a multi-level educational approach for the future / Donald B. Louria, Howard F. Didsbury, Jr., and Fred Ellerbusch -- While-brain education for the digital age / Michael T. Romano -- Four urgent requests from future generations / Allen Tough -- The future of the book in a digital age / David J. Staley -- Chaning methods in futures studies / Richard A. Slaughter -- The strategic context of education in America : 2000 to 2020 / David Pierce Snyder, Gregg Edwards, and Chris Folsom -- Is corporate integrity possible? / Marvin T. Brown -- Beyond regulation, what? : the case for corporate self-reform / Ian Wilson -- New futures and the eternal struggle between good and evil / Wendell Bell -- Cognitive enhancement and cognitive liberty : comment to the President's Council on Bioethics / Wrye Sententia -- National governments are moving into a new stage of electronic government : how fast will they evolve? / Francis A. McDonough -- Considering the singularity : a coming world of autonomous intelligence (A.I.) / John Smart -- Transition paths to sustainability : information, energy and matter / Hazel Henderson -- Future of information era communications technologies / Graham T. T. Molitor -- Managing in the future : what management skills will be needed? / Raymond S. Kulzick -- Diversity within unity / Amitai Etzioni -- The modern significance of women's liberation and marriage for love / Charlotte Waterlow -- Labor unions, computer power and the near future / Arthur B. Shostak.
650 0 $aTwenty-first century$vForecasts.
650 0 $aSocial prediction.
650 0 $aTechnological forecasting.
650 0 $aEducation$xForecasting.
700 1 $aDidsbury, Howard F.,$d1924-
710 2 $aWorld Future Society.