21st century opportunities and challenges
Subtitle: an age of destruction or an age of transformation
By: edited and with a preface by Howard F. Didsbury, Jr.
Contributors: Didsbury, Howard F., 1924-; World Future Society.
Publisher: World Future Society
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Bethesda, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Twenty-first century -- Forecasts.; Social prediction.; Technological forecasting.; Education -- Forecasting.
Genres: Forecasts.
Other titles: Twenty first century opportunities and challenges
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"World Future Society's conference volume for its San Francisco meeting, July 18-20, 2003"--P. [vi].
Table of contents: title: The tyranny of the righteous / Howard F. Didsbury, Jr.; title: Convergence and collision : assessing the impacts of emerging scientific and technological innovations by using applied foresight / Lynn Elen Burton; title: Technology forecasting and assessment in the United States : status and prospects / Vary T. Coates; title: Global science and technology risk identification and management / Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon; title: State of the future index (SOFI) : a method for improving decision making that affects the future / Theodore J. Gordon; title: Reassessing risk assessment / Douglas Mulhall; title: Globalization : social disruption right ahead / J. Ørstøm Møller; title: Globalization, heritage buildings, and the 21st century economy / Donovan D. Rypkema; title: Keep the CON in economics : why economic forecasting doesn't work / Barry H. Minkin; title: The need for a multi-level educational approach for the future / Donald B. Louria, Howard F. Didsbury, Jr., and Fred Ellerbusch; title: While-brain education for the digital age / Michael T. Romano; title: Four urgent requests from future generations / Allen Tough; title: The future of the book in a digital age / David J. Staley; title: Chaning methods in futures studies / Richard A. Slaughter; title: The strategic context of education in America : 2000 to 2020 / David Pierce Snyder, Gregg Edwards, and Chris Folsom; title: Is corporate integrity possible? / Marvin T. Brown; title: Beyond regulation, what? : the case for corporate self-reform / Ian Wilson; title: New futures and the eternal struggle between good and evil / Wendell Bell; title: Cognitive enhancement and cognitive liberty : comment to the President's Council on Bioethics / Wrye Sententia; title: National governments are moving into a new stage of electronic government : how fast will they evolve? / Francis A. McDonough; title: Considering the singularity : a coming world of autonomous intelligence (A.I.) / John Smart; title: Transition paths to sustainability : information, energy and matter / Hazel Henderson; title: Future of information era communications technologies / Graham T. T. Molitor; title: Managing in the future : what management skills will be needed? / Raymond S. Kulzick; title: Diversity within unity / Amitai Etzioni; title: The modern significance of women's liberation and marriage for love / Charlotte Waterlow; title: Labor unions, computer power and the near future / Arthur B. Shostak.