The way we will be 50 years from today : 60 of the world's greatest minds share their visions of the next half century /
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Nashville, Tenn. :
Thomas Nelson,
[2008]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.