The new economy calls for new ways of thinking in this year's election. Here are a few suggestions for how to truly reinvent government. Since then, the federal government has become a sprawling behemoth. We live in a world of self-service. Trouble is, their policies affect our lives long after the last ballot is cast.
Companies know that the first one to the future wins.
Staffed by demographers, futurists, and scenario planners, and directed by futurist Watts Wacker, this office would advise the president and his cabinet of the long-term consequences of their actions. Most of us haven't wrapped our minds around the significance of decoding the human genome. But the fact is, the genomics revolution is going to make the computing revolution look like nothing more than a toy. Genomics makes us think about everything from the economics of food to the ethics of medicine. We need a genomics commission, led by Chicago-Kent College of Law professor and bioethicist Lori B. Andrews, to start a national conversation.