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The 1990s & beyond / edited by Edward Cornish.
LIBRA CB161 .N53 1990
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Twentieth century--Forecasts.
- Twentieth century.
- Forecasting.
- Social prediction.
- Medical Subjects:
- Forecasting.
- Genre:
- Forecasts
- Physical Description:
- 160 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- 1990s and beyond
- Place of Publication:
- Bethesda, MD : World Future Society, ©1990.
- Summary:
- A thought-provoking look at the final decade of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century, with articles on artificial intelligence, the class of 2000, medical breakthroughs, the earth's vital signs, tomorrow's economy, the future of AIDS, and much more.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Issues for the 1990s / Edith Weiner and Arnold Brown
- Nine American lifestyles : values and societal change / Arnold Mitchell
- The American family in the year 2000 / Andrew Cherlin and Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.
- Age wars : the coming battle between young and old / Phillip Longman
- Death of the university / Herbert I. London
- Class of 2000 : the good news and the bad news / Marvin J. Cetron
- Health care tomorrow / Roy Amara
- The future of AIDS / John Platt
- Medical breakthroughs : cutting the toll of killer diseases / Theodore J. Gordon
- The materials revolution / Tom Forester
- Hyperintelligence : making machines that think / John Baer
- The future of personal robots / Mike Higgins
- Living on the moon : will humans develop an unearthly culture? / Philip R. Harris
- The future course of international terrorism / Brian Michael Jenkins
- Crime and punishment : forces shaping the future / Gene Stephens
- Downtown 2040 : making cities fun! / John Fondersmith
- Going height crazy : super skyscrapers of the future / Hans-Gerhard Kauschke
- Tourism : a vital force for peace / Louis J. D'Amore
- Dream vacations : the booming market for designed experiences / Philip Kotler
- The 21st century economy / William Van Dusen Wishard
- Earth's vital signs / Lester R. Brown, Christopher Flavin, and Edward C. Wolf
- Do we owe anything to future generations? / Robert B. Mellert
- John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. : forgotten genius of forecasting / Harold G. Shane and Gary A. Sojka
- What may happen in the next hundred years / John Elfreth Watkins, Jr.
- The 1990s in brief.
- Notes:
- Reprints of articles that have appeared in "The Futurist" magazine.
- ISBN:
- 0930242378
- 9780930242374
- OCLC:
- 20981340
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