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Anticipating wild cards in world affairs

2080: Global warming leads to floods, droughts, agricultural disasters, hunger

Instead of ‘peak oil,’ maybe we’re headed towards the oil plateau

Pentagon studying space-based solar power platforms to prevent energy wars

Actuarily speaking, global warming is a very real catastrophe

Five tips for better trend-watching

Seek out the gadflies, the iconoclasts, the mavericks

Study: Experts aren’t necessarily better forecasters than ordinary Joes

The future of college athletics

The difference between futurists and regular consultants

In the future, employees will be fined for unhealthy habits

Futurists need to be historians, too

Competitors could sabotage your Web site’s search-engine ranking

CEOs need a “sensor network” to anticipate disruptive competition

Attention deficit: Americans less concerned about avian flu pandemic

Can we manage a world of superslums?

Policies needed to soften the blows of globalization

2020 foresight: New jobs

For fun

Revenge by gadget, or annoyance-tech

New safety hazard: Heads-down texting

‘Bad Roomba, bad Roomba’

Business greetings: Shake hands, kiss cheek(s) or make smacky noise in the air?

‘Not on my street!’ The problem with GPS routing efficiency

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