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050 14 $aHC79.E5$b.S77 2010
245 00 $aStrategies and technologies for a sustainable future /$cedited by Cynthia G. Wagner.
260 $aBethesda, MD :$bWorld Future Society,$c©2010.
300 $axxix, 450 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Three dozen of the world's leading practical visionaries offer sweeping perspectives and big-picture thinking in this volume of 25 essays prepared for WorldFuture 2010. Topics explored include new ways to collect intelligence to solve global problems ... strategies for improving creativity among futurists ... ways that technology can improve both our health and our health-care systems ... how conscious machines may one day inspire us with ideas of their own ... a profile of what qualities an anticipatory leader should have ... and much more."--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $a2020 visionaries -- Janna Quitney Anderson : remaking education for a new century -- Dennis M. Bushnell : conquering climate change -- Tools and strategies -- Collective intelligence : one of the next big things -- Using scenarios to inform future decisions -- Statisticians : new champions of the future -- How to achieve financial sustainability : a guide for the future of local governments -- Creativity 201 for futurists : how to further integrate creative practices to sustain the human spirit in your work and why it's a good thing to do -- The family of the future : an analysis of scenario studies on families -- Strategies for living a long life -- Assessments and case studies -- Threading the environmental needle : applying new tools to reduce uncertainty in environmental foresight -- Energy scenarios for Peru in 2030 -- realities of technology for sustainable futures -- Nanopharmaceuticals in medicine : the present and the future -- The future of health insurance in the United States -- Health consumer information needs drive mobile technology development worldwide -- Interacting with technology in an ever more complex world : designing for an all-inclusive society -- A fresh start : identifying strategic growth initiatives for residential communities -- Leading the way -- The anticipatory leader : profiled by futurists, finally -- The singularity's impact on business leaders -- The future of constitutionalism : constitutionalize before you democratize -- Primacy for the highest values -- Approaches for returning the political process to the individual : a system engineering perspective of the current political process (a concept paper) -- Sustainability, security, and States : problems of uncertainty, paths of action -- Leaders of the future in government : value based, authentic, and in real time -- Coda -- Thalamocortial algorithms in space the building of conscious machines and the lessons thereof.
650 0 $aSustainability$xForecasting.
650 0 $aForecasting.
650 0 $aTechnological forecasting.
650 0 $aSocial prediction.
650 0 $aForecasting$vCongresses.
650 7 $aForecasting.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00931721
650 7 $aSocial prediction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01122769
650 7 $aTechnological forecasting.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01144998
655 7 $aConference papers and proceedings.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423772
700 1 $aWagner, Cynthia G.
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