1. Nanotechnology will be used for everything from monitoring the health of soldiers in the battlefield to transforming waste into edible material.
2. U.S. public education will face an uphill battle for survival.
3. Wind and tidal power will grow considerably in the next five years.
4. More doctors and hospitals will use wireless technologies such as wearable computers and mattresses embedded with sensors to help care for patients.
5. Digital electronic assistant programs will surf the Net on our behalf and enable us to amass entire digital libraries on a given subject by doing nothing more than setting a few key search guidelines.
6. More people will be affected by Alzheimer's disease.
7. Death by global warming.
8. Science in Latin America will rise considerably.
9. Look out for a job boom in solar industries, with some 42,000 new U.S. jobs by 2015.
10. The open-source phenomenon will transform employment as radically as blogging has changed the fields of media and journalism.
[Via: World Future Society]
"85 year old lady wants to climb Mount Everest - together with her dachshund! This story made worldwide headlines in newspapers, magazines, forums, internet newsportals and on the radio. 85 year old Mary Woodbridge from Britain announced the ascent of the world's highest mountain on her website www.mary-woodbridge.co.uk which included homemade, funny training videos of her and her little dog Daisy."
"You can have innovation without branding, but you can't have branding without innovation."
"When CNW surveyed shoppers coming out of Wal-Mart stores, 75% said they preferred to buy American, yet an inspection of their purchases found that 90% were made in China."
