forecasting

Explains climate change, its implications for the future, and what we can, and cannot, do to avoid further change.

The authors presents reasons that technological innovations in artificial intelligence, robotics computing, biology and other growing technologies will improve the future of humanity.

Contains a collection of art and illustrations by sixteen contemporary artists that accompanies the four-hour PBS television broadcast of Art: 21.

Presents an examination of world oil production, providing data and analysis on the future of global oil supplies, including information on the capacity of the United States, Western Europe, Mexico, Canada, South America, Asia, the Middle East, and more. Includes discussion of oil alternatives.

Presents descriptions of over one hundred jobs that promise great opportunity through 2012, each with information on salaries, education and training requirements,and other topics, and includes job search advice, sample resumes, and articles on labor market trends.

Describes the development of cities, from the early agricultural centers in the Fertile Crescent to modern metropolises in industrialized countries.

Examines trends and scientific and technological research to speculate what a typical day will be like for a child living in the year 2030.