TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wallace,Mike
TI  - The way we will be 50 years from today: 60 of the world's greatest minds share their visions of the next half century 
SN  - 9780849903700
AV  - HM901 .W39 2008
U1  - 303.4909/05 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Nashville, Tenn.
PB  - Thomas Nelson
KW  - Social prediction
KW  - Social indicators
KW  - Economic indicators
KW  - Political indicators
KW  - Health status indicators
KW  - Technological forecasting
KW  - Quality of life
KW  - Forecasting
KW  - Twenty-first century
KW  - Forecasts
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 241); As we may live; Vint Cerf --; A revolution in medicine; Francis S. Collins --; A tiny dot in cosmic time : a big period in human time; George F. Smoot --; What's ahead : figures don't lie?; Christian de Duve --; What a climatologist cannot know about the next 50 years (but what he does believe); John R. Christy --; No more heart disease; Louis J. Ignarro --; The end of psychiatric illnesses; E. Fuller Torrey --; Simon Caplan's day; Arthur Caplan --; Fifty years from now : today's baby reaches middle age; Wanda Jones --; Blogging from the future; Craig Newmark --; Progress accelerates exponentially; Ray Kurzweil --; An economist predicts; Thomas C. Schelling --; Diary entry : 2058; Chandrasekhar (Spike) Narayan --; Deciphering the mega-trends; James E. Cartwright --; The way we will be 50 years from today?; Jody Williams --; The era of great change is coming; Kim Dae-jung --; The future of crime; Ronald Noble --; The future of food; Norman E. Borlaug --; What does it mean to be human?; Richard Clarke --; A brain scientist's perspective; Richard Restak --; In harmony with earth's water cycle; Sandra Postel --; How will science transform human society?; Gerardus 't Hooft --; Where are all the robots?; Shigeo Hirose --; Wind farming in Pollyanna land; Peter Doherty --; Letters to my grandchildren and great-grandchildren; Stuart L. Pimm --; Future cars and the jetsons; Malcolm Bricklin --; A world without borders; Abdulla Salem El-Badri --; Technology, security, and liberty in 50 years; Lee H. Hamilton --; Our place in the universe; Steven Beckwith --; Snapshot of a world with the new nation of California; Tim Mack --; Our children, our future; Marian Wright Edelman --; Landscapes and living conditions; Valli Moosa --; Go green by thinking blue; Leon E. Panetta and James D. Watkins --; The paradox; Aaron Ciechanover --; The transformation; Elias A. Zerhouni --; A world without breast cancer; Nancy G. Brinker --; Hope for people with brain diseases; Stanley B. Prusiner --; A physician's view of the future; Victor Sidel --; Clean energy for progress; Claude Mandil --; CO2 for good; Nancy Ho --; To open the world to all people; Michael Shermer --; The view as I glide by; Joseph L. Bryant --; One Tuesday in Australia; Barry Marshall --; Wake-up call on global warming; Carl Pope, Daniel Becker, and Allison Forbes --; Dateline : 50 years into the future; Keith B. Richburg --; Leaps and eurekas; Gregory A. Poland --; Snapshots of the future with infectious disease : living in a brave new world with age-old scourges; Earl G. Brown --; The age of the global citizen; Carol Bellamy --; Some words from "Dr. Future"; James Canton --; Some warnings, some worries, and a call for leadership; Douglas Osheroff --; How our knowledge will increase; Lyman Page --; "We will have learned our lesson"; Carol M. Browner --; The future of the soul; Richard Dawkins --; A bird's-eye view of the next 50 years; Peter Marra --; Global climate change and our children; Nsedu Obot-Witherspoon --; A way back to wilderness; William H. Meadows --; Future world : the bad, the good, and the ugly; Lawrence M. Krauss --; Always so much more to discover; John C. Mather --; Startling advances and what stays the same; Ahmed H. Zewail --; The earth in 50 years : rescue or ruin?; Ross Gelbspan
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