Foresight Snippets – No. 16
[Originally published] September 2001
- The 200-Year Present
- Life Extension and Immortality
- Scientist Says Mind Continues After Brain Dies
Category: Futures
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
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
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!
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
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
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?
Scanning Retrospective, No. 9
Foresight Snippets – No. 9
[Originally published] 30 March 2001
- Einstein.tv
- Waves Run This Power Plant
- The Singularity
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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!”
The Voroscope 