Scanning Retrospective, No. 19

Foresight Snippets – No. 19

[Originally published] December 2001

  • The Hydrogen Economy Experiment
  • Digital Continuity and the Rosetta Disc Project
  • Back to the Future 3: 2001 — A Space Odyssey
  • NORAD Watches for Santa Claus

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Scanning Retrospective, No. 18

Foresight Snippets – No. 18

[Originally published] November 2001

  • Scenarios for the New War
  • The Ultimate High Ground
  • Waging Peace

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Scanning Retrospective, No. 17

Foresight Snippets – No. 17

[Originally published] October 2001
Special Issue: Wild Cards

  • Suddenly, the World Changes…
  • Britain Says It Is Taking Asteroid Impact Threat Seriously
  • Searching for ET at Home

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Scanning Retrospective, No. 16

Foresight Snippets – No. 16

[Originally published] September 2001

  • The 200-Year Present
  • Life Extension and Immortality
  • Scientist Says Mind Continues After Brain Dies

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Scanning Retrospective, No. 15

Foresight Snippets – No. 15

[Originally published] August 2001

  • Feeling Poorly? It Could Be Affluenza
  • Tired of Fast Life? Try “Slow Food”
  • The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Children — Truax vs The Lorax
  • The Ghost in the Machine

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Scanning Retrospective, No. 14

Foresight Snippets – No. 14

[Originally published] July 2001

  • An Increasingly Thirsty Future Leading to Water Wars?
  • Privatising the Water of Life
  • Cloud Catchers

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Scanning Retrospective, No. 13

Foresight Snippets – No. 13

[Originally published] June 2001
[The Snippets moved to a monthly schedule as from June 2001]

  • Back to the Future 2: 2001 — Memories are Made of Glass
  • You’ve Heard of GMOs; What About GMAs — Genetically Modified Athletes?
  • Thunderbirds are GO!

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Scanning Retrospective, No. 12

Foresight Snippets – No. 12

[Originally published] 15 May 2001

  • The Hot New Medium: Paper
  • The Antibiotics Crisis
  • Homeopathy — Thanks for the Memory

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Scanning Retrospective, No. 11

Foresight Snippets – No. 11

[Originally published] 30 April 02001

  • Memes and Cultural Evolution
  • The OECD Environmental Outlook is Released
  • The Clock of the Long Now

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Scanning Retrospective, No. 10

Foresight Snippets – No. 10

[Originally published] 12 April 2001

  • Trends Affecting Education for the Next 10 Years
  • Dolly Cloners Abhor Human Tests
  • An Oath for Scientists?

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Scanning Retrospective, No. 9

Foresight Snippets – No. 9

[Originally published] 30 March 2001

  • Einstein.tv
  • Waves Run This Power Plant
  • The Singularity

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Scanning Retrospective, No. 8

Foresight Snippets – No. 8

[Originally published] 15 March 2001

  • Research in the Business World
  • Cashing In on the Future
  • Privatising the University — the New Tragedy of the Commons

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Scanning Retrospective, No. 7

Foresight Snippets – No. 7

[Originally published] 28 February 2001

  • Would You Like a Mobile Phone With That?
  • Cloning: Could Humans Be Next?
  • A Framework for Making Sustainability a Practical Reality

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Scanning Retrospective, No. 6

Foresight Snippets – No. 6

[Originally published] 14 February 2001

  • A University That Wants Students to Stay Away from Class
  • Report: On-line Training ‘Boring’
  • Setting Standards for Web-Ed

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Scanning Retrospective, No. 5

Foresight Snippets – No. 5

[Originally published] 30 January 2001

  • The Untethered Campus
  • A Hydrogen-Fueled “People’s Car”
  • Living Under the Hole in the Sky

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Scanning Retrospective, No. 4

Foresight Snippets – No. 4

[Originally published] 15 January 2001

  • Does Reading Harry Potter Cause Global Warming?
  • Oops! A New Bio-Weapon
  • Back to the Future: 2001 — Is Tablet Computing About to Go Mainstream?

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Scanning Retrospective, No. 3

Foresight Snippets – No. 3

[Originally published] 15 December 2000

  • What price the “.tv” domain?
  • You’d better be good! Darth Vader is coming to the lecture hall
  • Everything old is new again: phone numbers vs URLs

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Scanning Retrospective, No. 2

Foresight Snippets – No. 2

[Originally published] 27 November 2000

  • Cellular Phones: Are They Safe to Use?
  • You’re Hired — Now Stay Home!
  • Lasered Lawns

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Scanning Retrospective, No. 1

Foresight Snippets – No. 1

From the Foresight & Planning Unit
[Originally published] 17 November 2000
by Joseph Voros

  • Universities Begin Creating Palm-Sized Versions of Campus Web Pages
  • GM Goat Spins Web-Based Future
  • Stick Your Finger in Your Ear and Go “Ting-a-Ling-a-Loo!”

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