<center><a href="http://www.geocities.com/vaksam/">Sam Vaknin’s Psychology‚ Philosophy‚ Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites</a></center> <br> <br>Many futurologists - professional (Toffler) and less so (Naisbitt) - tried their hand at predicting the future. They proved quite successful at predicting major trends but not as lucky in delineating their details. This is because‚ inevitably‚ every futurologist has to resort to crude tools such as extrapolation. The modern day versions of biblical prophets
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The future of books The past decade has seen the unparalleled development of electronic devices. And the subversive popularity of e-books plays a crucial role in this process. Nowadays‚ it’s quite common to see a portable iPad instead of piles of heavy books in a teenager’s backpack. An increasing number of people prefer to tap on screens rather than turn paper pages. Because of this mounting craze‚ some people anticipate that with the looming momentum e-books will ultimately take the place of
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Sustainable future In a world with an ever increasing population ways must be considered to maintain the current population and meet the demands of future population growth. The world population is estimated to hit 7 billion in the very near future. This is a startling contrast to the population of the 1800’s being estimated to be a paltry 1 billion. Increasing technology and over use of natural resources has led to a population boom. Many experts estimate that the world population will double
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Taken from http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/1766936.html [Accessed on December 18‚ 2008] 5 New Ideas To Power Our Future - October 2005 Cover Story from Popular Mechanics With the outlook for oil uncertain‚ it’s time for new ideas. Here are five emerging technologies--from buoys that harness the power of waves to bacteria that extract electricity from wastewater. Together they can keep the world humming. BY KRISTIN ROTH Illustrations by Flying-Chilli.com Published in the October
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Laptops Are Future In the 21st century‚ laptops had become a big part of our life and it became very important to our education. Laptops had help teachers or students can no longer limit to the traditional way of teaching. Nowadays‚ most schools have computer labs and many students have computers at home too. In addition‚ some students will bring their laptop to class. Although there has been a strong push to get education technology into hand of teachers and students‚ there are still some problems
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The vision quest is a coming-of-age ceremony common to most Aboriginal religions. The seeker of the vision quest‚ who is usually an adolescent male‚ is first purified‚ which involves a confession‚ or at least a desire to atone. This usually occurs at a sweat lodge (Figure 1)‚ which is usually an igloo-shaped structure about five feet high‚ built in about one and half hours from bent willow branches tied together with twine. The structure is then encased in blankets to preclude all light‚ and a maximum
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Vision‚ Mission and Philosophy Statement Daniel I. Roberts‚ Jr. ECE 312 Professor Cassandra Murphy March 12‚ 2012 Having a Vision‚ Mission‚ and Philosophy base is necessary for an early childhood program. Every teacher must have a source in which he or she can rely on as a way of maintaining order‚ structure‚ and interests in a classroom filled with young‚ eager students who are motivated to learn. Having such a base can instill wisdom in not only the children‚ but the teacher
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2.1 Introduction Vision and mission are important for all company to make an efficient and effective management of the company to achieve their goals. From the vision and mission‚ the company can do the strategy for the long term to maintain their sustainability and make a good reputation. Staples also have their own vision and mission. By achieving it‚ they do a variety of initiative and programme that suit to achieve the vision and mission such as Staples Soul and Staples Advantage. however‚ stakeholders
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Adopting modern ways and new ideas move people forward by building on foundations of traditions. When traditions are lost‚ modernization sets in. Modernization is when technology blends with culture and they exist together in a contemporary time period. The main issue with modernization is that it is a continuing cycle of innovations and change that never cease and force the loss of traditions. There are four key concepts which help explain how modernization manifests; first‚ the decline of small
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Anatomy of the Future Andreas Vesalius August 1‚ 1539 After attending college at the University of Louvain‚ I moved to Padua to study for my doctorate. After being offered the chair of surgery and anatomy‚ I pursued my desire to research the anatomy. Although surgery and anatomy are considered of little importance in comparison to other branches of medicine‚ I believe that surgery must be grounded in anatomy. I have been given the opportunity to perform my research on the cadavers of executed
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