Forecast #1:
The Race for Genetic Enhancements Will Be What the Space Race Was in the 20th Century—Genetic therapies and biomedical enhancements will be a multibillion-dollar industry. New techniques will enable doctors to change your DNA to revitalize old or diseased organs, enhance your appearance, increase your athletic ability, or boost your intelligence.

Forecast #2:
Water Becomes the New Oil—Water desalination may soon become one of the world’s largest industries. By 2040, at least 3.5 billion people will run short of water—almost 10 times as many as in 1995. The huge demand, plus new more efficient desalination technologies, will create enormous profit opportunities and bring new life to arid regions.

Forecast #6

Invention Becomes Automated

Tomorrow’s inventors won’t toil away in workshops painstakingly building, testing and refining their creations. Instead, the Edisons of the next decade will spend their days writing descriptions of the problems they want to solve, and then hand those descriptions to computers to work out the solutions.

This technology has already designed a successful antenna for a NASA space mission and invented innovative consumer products. It promises to spark a revolution in innovation and allow non-technical people to become inventors. Discover some of the companies leading this revolution in a new special report, The Automation of Invention. It’s yours free with an introductory membership.

Forecast #3:
WiMAX Networks Will Soon Create Country-Wide Wireless Internet Access—Often described as “Wi-Fi on steroids,” WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) will cover entire countries with a vibrant, high-speed wireless communications network. Internet access and other data and video applications will be available anywhere with many applications for automobiles.

Forecast #4:
By 2025, the Worldwide Average Life-Span Will Be Extended by One year Per Year—Only 15% of deaths worldwide will be due to naturally occurring infectious diseases.

Forecast #5:
Bioviolence Becomes a Greater Threat—In the next decade, biological technologies that were once at the frontiers of science will become available to anyone with minimal scientific training. Emerging biotechnologies, such as genomics and nanotechnology, will allow bacteria and viruses to be altered to increase their lethality or make them more resistant to antibiotics.

Dear Reader,

These are a few recent forecasts from members of the World Future Society and its magazine, THE FUTURIST.

In this special report, you’ll discover many other trends and forecasts that are likely to affect virtually all aspects of your life in the years immediately ahead. You’ll see how you can forecast possible future developments in your own life.

You’ll also get details on receiving a valuable guide to important trends that are likely to impact your business or investments. It’s yours absolutely free with an introductory membership.

At the outset, let me say that futurists do not claim to be able to predict precisely what will happen in the future. If we could know the future with certainty, it would mean that the future could not be changed. Yet this is the main purpose of studying the future: to look at what may happen if present trends continue, decide if this is desirable, and, if it’s not, work to change it.

The main goal of studying the future is to make it better. Trends, forecasts, and ideas about the future enable you to spot opportunities and threats early, and position yourself, your business, and your investments accordingly.

How You Can Succeed in
THE AGE OF HYPERCHANGE

Look how quickly our world is transforming around us. Entire new industries and technologies unheard of 15 years ago are now regular parts of our lives. Technology, globalization, and the current financial crisis have left many of us reeling. It’s increasingly difficult to keep up with new developments—much less to understand their implications.

And, if you think things are changing fast now, you haven’t seen anything yet.

The rate of change is accelerating. As inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil notes, “Because of the explosive nature of exponential growth, the twenty-first century will be equivalent to twenty thousand years of progress at today’s rate of progress; about one thousand times greater than the 20th century.”

All of us are going to spend the rest of our lives in the future. Therefore, if we want to be practical, we must focus our attention on the trends and ideas that are shaping the future. What will these changes mean for you, your family, your career, your community and your investments?

Today, it’s as if we’re driving 200 miles an hour and only looking out of the rear-view mirror. The Internet has given us access to a vast wealth of information, but it hasn’t helped us make sense of it. Meanwhile, the media spends most of its time on trivia while ignoring long-term problems and opportunities.

My name is Tim Mack. I’m president of the World Future Society, an association of 25,000 forward-looking individuals and groups in 80 countries. Since 1966, when the World Future Society was founded, we’ve worked diligently to share information on new developments, possibilities, forecasts, trends, and scenarios. This information helps individuals, governments, and businesses participate in creating a better future for themselves and the world as a whole.

Electric Cars Become Fully Practical by 2020

Discover how companies in Denmark are making wind-powered charging stations for electric cars. Freshly charged batteries are exchanged for drained batteries in less time than it takes to fill a car with gas. Consumers pay for the service on monthly plans like mobile phone service.

Analysts at Deutsche Bank are enthusiastic and believe this concept could eventually transform the auto industry and neutralize petrodollar power within the next decade. Get details on the innovative companies leading this revolution in your free report, Urgent Warnings, Breakthrough Solutions.

As a nonprofit organization, we’ve put all our effort into sharing this information with everyone—not just governments or corporations. The World Future Society is totally independent, offers no official view of what the future will or should be like, embraces no creed or ideology. Only in this way can we give you the unbiased information you need about the most important subject there is: Your Future.

“Whether we are on the threshold of a Golden Age or on the brink of a global catastrophe that will extinguish our civilization is, I believe, not only unknowable, but also undecided. The decision will emerge through what we do in the years ahead, for each of us will create a little piece of the common future of all mankind.

“We can do nothing to change the past, but we have enormous power to shape the future. Once we grasp that essential insight, we recognize our responsibility and capability for building our dreams of tomorrow and avoiding our nightmares. Of course, we feel abysmally ignorant of how to proceed, but as we join together, forming networks of human concern about the future, we will find the strength and wisdom needed to create a better future world.”—Edward Cornish, Founder, World Future Society

This is some of the thinking that went into founding the World Future Society more than 40 years ago. Its early founders and supporters were people such as Nobel Prize winners Glenn T. Seaborg and Dennis Gabor... comprehensive designer Buckminster Fuller... science writers Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov... business and government leaders such as HEW secretary John W. Gardner and members of the cabinets of presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. It was a unique assembly of some of the world’s most forward-looking people. They shared a common belief that a better tomorrow is built from wise decisions today.

The World Future Society supports individuals and organizations by acting as a neutral clearinghouse for forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future. We serve as an early warning system to help people spot problems and opportunities far enough in advance so that they can prepare and make wise decisions.

The Single Most Critical Skill
for the 21st Century

In this era of accelerating change, knowledge alone is no longer the key to a prosperous life. Foresight is the critical skill. Knowledge quickly goes out of date, but foresight enables you to navigate change, make good decisions, and take action now to create a better future.

We often think people are successful because of luck, when in fact it was their foresight that made them “lucky.” If you look at any successful person, organization, even a country, you will find a high degree of foresight. That’s why foresight is...

The Secret Ingredient of Success

Foresight is critical to achievement in all areas of your life, including your major life decisions. People who lack foresight are likely to find themselves unemployed when jobs are unexpectedly lost to new technologies, competition from overseas, or shifts in consumer tastes. Foresight is the key to survival in a world of disruptive innovation.

Foresight enables you to see opportunities, avoid threats, and chart the fastest path to your goals. The key to success is seizing opportunity when it arises. But you need to see the opportunity and be prepared to take action. That’s why foresight gives you power and agility to achieve any goal you want to achieve.

7 Ways to Spot Tomorrow’s Trends Today

In the more than 40 years since the World Future Society was founded, futurists have developed a range of techniques to study the future. Here are a few techniques futurist use to spot new opportunities and potential problems. These methods give individuals and organizations an edge to help them succeed in a fast-changing world:

1. Scan the Media to Identify Trends—Futurists often conduct an ongoing and systematic surveys of news media and research institutes. These surveys help spot significant trends and technology breakthroughs. Futurists call this environmental scanning.

Each issue of THE FUTURIST brings you the results of the work of leading futurists from around the world.

You can also discover how to use these techniques yourself in your business and personal life. We’ve prepared a special report that shows how to use these and other futurist techniques. It’s called The Art of Foresight: Preparing for a Changing World. This report will show you how to use futurist techniques to prepare realistically and creatively for success in your personal and professional life. You can get a copy FREE with an introductory membership in the World Future Society.

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Join the World Future Society today and you’ll receive a wide range of exclusive benefits that will help you understand trends, build foresight, and create a better future. As a WFS member, you’ll receive:

THE FUTURIST: A Journal of Forecasts, Trends, and Ideas About the Future: This bimonthly magazine focuses on innovation, creative thinking, and emerging social, economic, environmental, and technological trends.

Spot Important Trends Years
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Each issue of THE FUTURIST will brief you on the most important trends that affect your business, career, family, investments, and the world in general. You’ll get the most significant trends across the changing landscape, from technology, the economy, public policy, education, resources, and the environment. THE FUTURIST will help you:

• See the Latest Breakthrough Technologies—You’ll understand the impact of new technologies, innovations, discoveries, and new solutions on the horizon.


• Know the Economic and Business Outlook—You’ll get vital updates on major economic, business, investment, and consumer trends.


• Get an Advance Look at Environment and Resource Issues—You’ll see the latest ideas and reports on natural resources, habitats, sustainable communities, and more.


• Identify Social Trends—You’ll get an advance look at how values, lifestyles, religion, entertainment, sports, arts, language, sex, and the family are changing.


• Spot Demographic Shifts—You’ll get the latest changes in population, immigration, births, deaths, marriages, and other vital information.

Our unique, multidisciplinary analysis of trends saves you time by compressing a massive amount of information into engaging and comprehensible reports. Each issue of THE FUTURIST gives you a careful selection of the most interesting and significant current reports on trends, forecasts, and potentially important developments.

Recent World Trends and Forecasts reported in THE FUTURIST Include:

• Tapping the Power of DNA to Run Computers—How researchers in Britain have found a way to tap the chemical-electrical properties in DNA to create a microscopic electronic switch. This breakthrough may lead to linking living organisms to computers.


• How to Live Beyond 100—A leading gerontologist surveyed 137 supercentenarians and discovered five secrets that dramatically boost your odds of living long past age 100.


• The Rise of Brain-Focused Teaching—
  How functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is transforming teaching the way it revolutionized medicine. Now teachers can see what’s really happening when students learn.

You’ll get the complete versions of all the above articles in our new special report, Urgent Warnings, Breakthrough Solutions. It’s yours FREE when you join the World Future Society today.

THE FUTURIST also features TOMORROW-IN-BRIEF, a quick update on unique and remarkable breakthroughs you’re unlikely to find anywhere else. In each issue, you’ll discover remarkable new developments such as:

• Nanotechnology and 3-D TV: How researchers in Finland have developed nanomaterials that bend light around objects. The light from these new displays creates a floating 3-D TV image.


• High-Tech Cowboys—How cattle ranchers are combining new technologies such as Wi-Fi and GPS, and “virtual fencing” to protect and manage their herds more efficiently.


• Using Neuroscience to Win Future Wars—How an advanced understanding of the mind and how it operates and responds to crises will be key to gaining advantages on the battlefield. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are developing approaches to gain mental advantage over adversaries.

You’ll get these and more than 70 other forecasts in our OUTLOOK special report. It’s yours FREE with an introductory membership.

THE FUTURIST also brings you
these features:

• FutureView—A thoughtful essay by a leading futurist;


• Visions—Exciting visual images of new designs; and...


• Book Reviews—The latest books on the future, especially selected for their impact or originality.

And, of course, feature articles you will find nowhere else.  Each issue brings you 4-7 feature articles written by leading thinkers, scientists, researchers, economists, politicians, and experts from virtually every field who know that the actions we take today create the world of tomorrow. See box at right for a small sampling of the leading thinkers and doers who have appeared in THE FUTURIST over the years.

Recent feature articles in THE FUTURIST include:

• The AI Chasers—How the artificial intelligence revolution is transforming computing and automation as computers can think and learn. Discover the innovators driving this revolution and the companies poised to profit.


• A Realistic Energy Strategy—How clean, renewable energy is more practical and achievable than most people think. Discover the pioneering companies leading the clean energy revolution.

You’ll receive all of the articles above in the special reports that you can receive free with an introductory membership.

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• Unique and Exciting Conferences—From presidential candidates to prominent scientists, WFS conferences feature thought-leaders on the cutting edge of change. These unique meetings have been described as “a world’s fair of ideas” and “the greatest intellectual show on earth.” No other conference brings together so many original thinkers and doers from so many fields. (See box at right for a few of the well-known speakers.) You’ll receive early invitations and members’ discounts for these important events.



• Connect with Forward-Looking Experts and Organizations. Discover ideas and innovations that will inspire and inform your own work. Knowing what others are doing—as they are doing it—enables you to make breakthrough connections that otherwise would never be possible.



• Network with Other Forward-Looking People in Your Area — As a member you can join local futurist groups throughout the United States and in 117 cities and 39 countries worldwide. You’ll be able make important professional and personal contacts. Many groups sponsor seminars, offer lectures, take field trips, publish newsletters, hold discussion groups and other events. You’ll receive a complete listing of local and special-interest futurist groups with your introductory membership.

A 40-Year Track Record of Successful Forecasts

In the 43 years since its first issue, THE FUTURIST has correctly forecast many of the major technological and social developments of our times. Some of these included:

• The energy crisis of the 1970s;
• The impact of communications technologies such as the Internet and cellular phones;
• The rise and fall of the Japanese economy
  in the 1990s;
• Recycling;
• The impact of the Baby Boom generation on housing, schools, and retirement systems;
• Human organ transplants and the use of
  artificial organs;
• The widespread use of automation, robotics,
  and lasers;
• Commercial applications of genetic engineering;
• Telecommuting;
• The Dow Jones stock index surpassing 10,000 by the end of the 20th Century
• Increased terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and the World Trade Center as an attractive target.

Shouldn’t you know the likely developments of the next 10-20
years of your future?

Breakthrough DOUBLES Solar Energy Output

An exciting advance in photovoltaics could DOUBLE the performance of existing solar panels and go a long way toward making solar electricity more competitive with conventional grid energy.

One company believes it will have practical and affordable solar energy on the market in three years. You’ll get all the details, including the name of this new company, in our new special report, Urgent Warnings, Breakthrough Solutions.

Of course, the value of a forecast is not just in whether it comes true or not. Forecasts can be useful for helping you think about the future. Sometimes the most useful forecasts do not come true because people took action to avoid a crisis. For example, forecasts about the Y2K computer problem warned about the potential dangers of widespread computer-related problems. But people took action to keep the forecast from coming true.

It’s Not Just What Your Future Will Be;
It’s What It Could Be!

All of us need exciting new visions of positive possible futures to achieve. Just as John F. Kennedy’s call to put a man on the moon inspired people to do something many thought impossible, you can identify possible and preferable futures and work to achieve them. WFS and THE FUTURIST bring you realistic visionaries who have developed practical solutions for pressing world problems.

The Key to Building a Better Future

Many futurists believe that almost anything can be done in 20 years. Consider that unleashing the power of the atom took only four years and putting a man on the moon took only eight.

Just as a building can be built if people believe it will be built, a desirable world might be created if people can collectively imagine what that world would be like and how it might be achieved. Futurists believe that to develop such a consensus, ideas about the future world should be systematically generated and studied. The study of the future would thus become a major human activity.

What Type of World Will Your Grandchildren Inherit?

We can do nothing to change the past, but we have great power to shape the future. We can learn to avoid repeating past mistakes and we can collaborate globally to create a better future world. We’ve got to learn to be good ancestors and think of future generations.

Now is the critical moment. The years ahead will create huge opportunities for individuals, organizations, and countries that are prepared, and serious dangers for those who are not.

The Key to Success

Successful people believe “I Create My Future.” Unsuccessful people believe, “The future happens to me.” That’s why successful people look ahead. They know that every day they are making choices that will affect the rest of their lives. They believe that they are largely in control of their lives and they create their own opportunities for success. It’s time to decide.

You can be a passive victim of change OR you can discover the trends that allow you to take advantage of change.

By looking ahead, you’ll make better decisions, avoid threats, develop your entrepreneurial vision, and seize opportunities that others never see.

That’s why leading companies such as Nokia, Procter & Gamble, and the electronics group Philips use futures thinking. The British government has set up a “horizon scanning center” as part of its Foresight project. Notre Dame University now requires all of its business students to complete a course in foresight.

How Shell Oil Foresaw the Energy Crisis

Shell was one of the first companies to adopt futures thinking, incorporating it into planning in the 1970s. Futurist Pierre Wack got Shell to see that oil production was not just about economics and technology but also about politics. Thus, it was ready for the severe oil crisis of 1973, when OPEC countries cut off oil exports during the Yom Kippur war. Then in the early 1990s, scenarios written by Shell planners foresaw the likelihood of a rapid and dramatic decline in the price of oil. This was the result of the discoveries of new fields outside of the OPEC sphere of influence, in combination with energy conservation. Positioning itself accordingly, Shell then rose from fourteenth to second place among the oil multinationals during the mid-1990s as prices fell and other heavily over-invested companies lost billions.

How Foresight Prevented Civil War

Futurist techniques helped South Africa emerge from its apartheid system without widespread violence or economic upheavals. In 1991 (three years before the end of Apartheid) a diverse group of 22 prominent South Africans met with a team of futurists from Shell Oil Company. They developed scenarios designed to “stimulate debate on how to shape the next ten years” for South Africa.

The team presented the scenarios to then President De Klerk, and his Cabinet. They briefed Nelson Mandela in his jail cell and leaders of the ANC and other associations. The scenarios were published in a 14-page insert in The Weekly Mail and The Guardian Weekly, major South African newspapers. Over the rest of the year, the team presented the scenarios to more than 50 influential groups throughout South Africa. As a result, the scenarios became widely discussed in South Africa at all levels, from taxi drivers to talk radio shows. Ultimately, South Africa was able to make a peaceful transition to representative government and create a new future. It could have been much different, and the widely disseminated scenarios are credited with the peaceful outcome.

Bridging the Gap Between
Technology and Wisdom

A great challenge of our time is that science and technology are accelerating furiously, but our understanding and wisdom are not. We need new perspectives to allow us to reflect on where change is leading us. The issues become ever more complex. We need new systems and institutions to help us understand the long-term consequences of new developments. Our technology is evolving faster than our capability to understand it and guide its development.

The World Future Society is the nucleus of a global network of thoughtful people sharing a common interest in exploring the world’s future. You can be part of this tremendous intellectual resource that can light the way for humanity as it moves into a future filled with extraordinary potential, enormous risks, and mysteries beyond our comprehension.

World Future Society membership and THE FUTURIST will help you:

• Prepare for the Opportunities and Challenges of Tomorrow —You’ll be able to position your career, your business, your family, and your investments to capitalize on trends and avoid threats.

• See the Big Picture —You’ll understand the larger forces shaping day-to-day events. You’ll see how the sudden and random events that make the news are part of larger patterns of change.


• Be First to Know of Breakthrough Technologies — Chances are today’s hot stock is based on technology THE FUTURIST covered years earlier. You’ll get advance notice of exciting new technologies often years before they hit the news. Most importantly, you’ll have a context to evaluate the impact of new inventions.


• Save Time — With the Internet and 24/7 news it can seem impossible to keep up with all the information you need to know. When you know the trends, you can cut through the clutter and focus on the news most relevant to your goals. You’ll see the tide and not just the waves.


• Find New Solutions — You’ll gain new vision, expand your horizons, and be able to overcome mental roadblocks. You’ll understand the impact of changes outside your industry or area of expertise.

World Future Society membership and THE FUTURIST are a total information system to help you succeed in a rapidly changing world. You’ll be able to position your career, your education, your family, your investments, even where you choose to live — in ways that use trends to your advantage.

Now here’s the most important part. Your membership will give you the satisfaction of knowing that you make it possible for leading thinkers and doers from all over the world to study the future — helping to create a better tomorrow for all of us. The world faces enormous challenges. We need to work collectively to develop the wisdom and consensus to build a world worth handing over to our children. A better tomorrow truly depends on your support.

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