The way we will be 50 years from today
Subtitle: 60 of the world's greatest minds share their visions of the next half century
By: [edited by] Mike Wallace.
Contributors: Wallace, Mike, 1918-.
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Nashville, Tenn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780849903700
Subjects: Social prediction.; Social indicators.; Economic indicators.; Political indicators.; Health status indicators.; Technological forecasting.; Quality of life -- Forecasting.; Twenty-first century -- Forecasts.
Genres: Forecasts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241).
Table of contents: title: As we may live / Vint Cerf; title: A revolution in medicine / Francis S. Collins; title: A tiny dot in cosmic time : a big period in human time / George F. Smoot; title: What's ahead : figures don't lie? / Christian de Duve; title: What a climatologist cannot know about the next 50 years (but what he does believe) / John R. Christy; title: No more heart disease / Louis J. Ignarro; title: The end of psychiatric illnesses / E. Fuller Torrey; title: Simon Caplan's day / Arthur Caplan; title: Fifty years from now : today's baby reaches middle age / Wanda Jones; title: Blogging from the future / Craig Newmark; title: Progress accelerates exponentially / Ray Kurzweil; title: An economist predicts / Thomas C. Schelling; title: Diary entry : 2058 / Chandrasekhar (Spike) Narayan; title: Deciphering the mega-trends / James E. Cartwright; title: The way we will be 50 years from today? / Jody Williams; title: The era of great change is coming / Kim Dae-jung; title: The future of crime / Ronald Noble; title: ^The future of food / Norman E. Borlaug; title: ^What does it mean to be human? / Richard Clarke; title: A brain scientist's perspective / Richard Restak; title: In harmony with earth's water cycle / Sandra Postel; title: How will science transform human society? / Gerardus 't Hooft; title: Where are all the robots? / Shigeo Hirose; title: Wind farming in Pollyanna land / Peter Doherty; title: Letters to my grandchildren and great-grandchildren / Stuart L. Pimm; title: Future cars and the jetsons / Malcolm Bricklin; title: A world without borders / Abdulla Salem El-Badri; title: Technology, security, and liberty in 50 years / Lee H. Hamilton; title: Our place in the universe / Steven Beckwith; title: Snapshot of a world with the new nation of California / Tim Mack; title: Our children, our future / Marian Wright Edelman; title: Landscapes and living conditions / Valli Moosa; title: Go green by thinking blue / Leon E. Panetta and James D. Watkins; title: The paradox / Aaron Ciechanover; title: The transformation / Elias A. Zerhouni; title: ^A world without breast cancer / Nancy G. Brinker; title: ^Hope for people with brain diseases / Stanley B. Prusiner; title: A physician's view of the future / Victor Sidel; title: Clean energy for progress / Claude Mandil; title: CO2 for good / Nancy Ho; title: To open the world to all people / Michael Shermer; title: The view as I glide by / Joseph L. Bryant; title: One Tuesday in Australia / Barry Marshall; title: Wake-up call on global warming / Carl Pope, Daniel Becker, and Allison Forbes; title: Dateline : 50 years into the future / Keith B. Richburg; title: Leaps and eurekas / Gregory A. Poland; title: Snapshots of the future with infectious disease : living in a brave new world with age-old scourges / Earl G. Brown; title: The age of the global citizen / Carol Bellamy; title: Some words from "Dr. Future" / James Canton; title: Some warnings, some worries, and a call for leadership / Douglas Osheroff; title: How our knowledge will increase / Lyman Page; title: "We will have learned our lesson" / Carol M. Browner; title: ^The future of the soul / Richard Dawkins; title: ^A bird's-eye view of the next 50 years / Peter Marra; title: Global climate change and our children / Nsedu Obot-Witherspoon; title: A way back to wilderness / William H. Meadows; title: Future world : the bad, the good, and the ugly / Lawrence M. Krauss; title: Always so much more to discover / John C. Mather; title: Startling advances and what stays the same / Ahmed H. Zewail; title: The earth in 50 years : rescue or ruin? / Ross Gelbspan.