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To: Ironword
Here are the editors' of World Future Society top 10 forecasts from Outlook 2002:

1. Future farmers could make more money from the air than the land.

2. Automated translation systems may one day allow people to communicate freely with others speaking different languages.(I think my little Sister first predicted this back in 1998)

3. Natural disasters could become more disastrous as the world's wetlands dry up.

4. Schools may solve behavior problems with better nutrition.

5. Get ready for 1 billion elderly people (age 60 and older) by 2020.

6. Vaccinations will be easier to swallow, as researchers find ways to genetically modify foods such as lettuce and rice with viral proteins to fight diseases.

7. Water shortages will become more frequent and more severe over the next two decades.

8. Time-pressed workers will increasingly seek "power leisure"—pursuits packed with intensive experiences that don't take up a lot of time.

9. Goodbye textbooks, hello networked learning: Printed and bound textbooks will disappear as interactive coursework is developed over the Internet.

10. Fish farming will overtake cattle ranching as a food source by 2010. Aquaculture has been the fastest-growing sector of the world food economy over the past decade.

57 posted on 11/04/2001 7:45:13 PM PST by VaBthang4
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To: VaBthang4
9. Goodbye textbooks, hello networked learning: Printed and bound textbooks will disappear as interactive coursework is developed over the Internet.

Well THAT'S complete BS.

69 posted on 11/04/2001 7:52:59 PM PST by Ironword
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