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