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 - 084990370X PY - 2008/// CY - Nashville, Tenn. PB - Thomas Nelson KW - Economic indicators KW - Health status indicators KW - Political indicators KW - Quality of life KW - Forecasting KW - Social indicators KW - Social prediction KW - Technological 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 ER -