21st century opportunities and challenges : an age of destruction or an age of transformation, None by None, None, Didsbury, Howard F., 1924-2012; World Future Society instant download

21st century opportunities and challenges : an age of destruction or an age of transformation, None by None, None, Didsbury, Howard F., 1924-2012; World Future Society instant download

xix, 344 pages : 23 cm, \"World Future Society's conference volume for its San Francisco meeting, July 18-20, 2003\"--Page [vi], Includes bibliographical references, The tyranny of the righteous / Howard F. Didsbury, Jr. -- Convergence and collision : assessing the impacts of emerging scientific and technological innovations by using applied foresight / Lynn Elen Burton -- Technology forecasting and assessment in the United States : status and prospects / Vary T. Coates -- Global science and technology risk identification and management / Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon -- State of the future index (SOFI) : a method for improving decision making that affects the future / Theodore J. Gordon -- Reassessing risk assessment / Douglas Mulhall -- Globalization : social disruption right ahead / J. Ørstøm Møller -- Globalization, heritage buildings, and the 21st century economy / Donovan D. Rypkema -- Keep the CON in economics : why economic forecasting doesn't work / Barry H. Minkin -- The need for a multi-level educational approach for the future / Donald B. Louria, Howard F. Didsbury, Jr., and Fred Ellerbusch -- While-brain education for the digital age / Michael T. Romano -- Four urgent requests from future generations / Allen Tough -- The future of the book in a digital age / David J. Staley -- Chaning methods in futures studies / Richard A. Slaughter -- The strategic context of education in America : 2000 to 2020 / David Pierce Snyder, Gregg Edwards, and Chris Folsom -- Is corporate integrity possible? / Marvin T. Brown -- Beyond regulation, what? : the case for corporate self-reform / Ian Wilson -- New futures and the eternal struggle between good and evil / Wendell Bell -- Cognitive enhancement and cognitive liberty : comment to the President's Council on Bioethics / Wrye Sententia -- National governments are moving into a new stage of electronic government : how fast will they evolve? / Francis A. McDonough -- Considering the singularity : a coming world of