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Environmental Scanning through a collection of:
SIGNS OF THE TIMES, TRENDS AND TREND BABIES
1999-2009
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What is a Sign of the
Times? Signs of the times are the result
of information gathering that looks for inventions,
innovations, attitudes and actions. Signs of the times
come from many sources, are systematically gathered
and have meaning for the future.
What is a Trend?
A trend is long-range and persistent; it effects many
societal groups, grows slowly and is profound. In
contrast, a fad is short-term, "in", effects particular
societal groups, spreads quickly and is superficial.
What is a Mega-trend?
A mega-trend extends over many generations, and in
cases of weather, mega-trends can cover periods prior
to human existence. They describe complex interactions
with many factors and they often represent the introduction
of several new paradigms or worldviews that arise
in hunting and gathering, agriculture, and industrial
societies.
Trend babies:
Here you find general trends or signs of new trends
("trend babies") from the categories social, technical,
ecological, economic or political. Trend babies grow
from innovations in the above categories that have
the potential of going mainstream in the future (for
example: just a few years ago, alternative medicine
was truly alternative. Now it is big business and
very respectable). The choice of trends is naturally
influenced by the author's values.
Trend families:
Very often, the chosen Signs are members of a trend
family. A parent trend (for example, the change from
an industrial society to a knowledge-based society)
is well documented. The ways in which such sweeping
trends play themselves out in various parts of the
community represent the "members of that trends family".
Examples: Jobs in the industrial
sector have shrunk causing widespread unemployment.
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Many countries see small business
as a solution to unemployment, driving unprecedented
attention to small business in many countries legislatures.
Another example of a trend
related to the move from industrial to knowledge society
is the privatization of the education industry.
As in all cases in Signs, sustainability
is one of the larger branches from which many other
twig-sized trends grow. Sustainability is "the property
of being sustainable", "using a resource so that the
resource is not depleted or permanently damaged".
In Signs, I use it to mean sustainable development,
"an approach to economic planning that attempts to
foster economic growth while preserving the quality
of the environment for future generations."
Confirming Trends:
When does a "trend baby", gain acceptance as a bona
fide trend? When it gets enough confirmation in the
various media to show it is an increasingly accepted
value, behavior or technology.
Geographical trend
growth and "bellwether" geographic sites:
There is also an attempt to follow the global spread
of trends that have started in the West (for example,
Women's rights are a generally accepted topic in the
media and on the Internet. Just how and when women's
rights develop in various countries can represent
global growth of that trend.) Some places seem to
lead development in one or a variety of areas and
are looked to as the source of new trends. California
has long been considered as bellwether for the United
States. The Nordic countries of Finland, Sweden, Norway
and Denmark have been considered bellwether in social
innovation.
All trends, to a greater or
lesser degree affect our lives, our work and our futures.
Our ability to understand that effect can many times
make a positive difference in the quality of our lives.
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Trend
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Metro
TT Spektra
February 13, 2002
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Storförlag tror inte
på e- boken
Large publishers don’t believe in e-books
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Time Warner and Random House,
two large publishers in the U. S. feel that interest
for electronic books is weak. Palm hand computers
and sees e-books as a growing market!
For a trend to take off the numbers of
persons participating must rise over 15-25%
which is the critical mass which validates a
trend. Trends, which have to do with the integration
of technical apparatus, can be controlled by
the financial support the do or do not receive.
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Technical trend- Electronic
books |
Source/Date
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Title
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Subject
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Trend
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Corante Tech News Filtered
Daily
John Hiller
February 26, 2002
www.corante.com/
microcontent/articles/
googleblog.shtml
boston.internet.com/
news/article/
0,1928,2001_874231,00.html
for additional information on bloggers and
weblogs
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Google Blogs
How Weblogs Influence A Billion Google Searches
A Week "Is Weblog Technology Here to Stay or
Just Another Fad?"
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Do you use the search engine
Google? Bloggers all across the world are influencing
the order of your search results! Who, or what
are bloggers? They are people who keep a kind
of on-line journal with both personal thoughts
and comments and links to sites they find interesting,
fresh and cutting edge. This link bit is called
a weblog. When information gathering on future
possibilities a blogger with the same interests
as you, can find new information you wouldn’t
find on a traditional media web site or on the
search engine. Bloggers . link to other blogs,
called "blogrolling". Due to the unique search
capacity of Google, every blogrolling is counted
by Google and the more links, the higher up site
moves on the list.
An example: A direct marketing company
calls a Blooger in the middle of his dinner.
He finds this irritating and puts the name of
the company along with the complaint on his
site. Every time other bloggers click on the
complaint, it rises on the search done for that
company’s name. In just 48 hours the complaint
can be number one on the search page.
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New ways to influence opinion
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Subject
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Trend
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Utne Reader
January-February 2002
www.philosophyslam.org
The Atlantic Monthly
Peter Davidson
March 2002
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Kiddie Kants and Pint-Sized
spinozas
Poetry Out Loud
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The Kids Philosophy Slam is
in its second year. 4,300 entrants participated
in the first year. Kids discuss questions like
“Is honesty always the best policy”
and “Is the nature of humankind good or evil?”
Remember the philosophy café’s that
sprung up in Paris a few years ago?
Another type of slam is a Poetry Slam which is
also a contest, is where people read their poetry
aloud (reminiscent of the American beat generation)
in bars or caafé’s). Rap music seems
to have had an influence here, and the trend is
not connected to one social or ethnic group. Video
filming the winners seems to be popular in both
the philosophy and poetry slams.
Youth culture changes from generation to
generation. We know that all youth aren’t
interested in the same things, yet the question
remains; how will future adults with youthful
interests in philosophy and poetry change the
world.
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Youth interest in philosophy
and poetry |
Source/Date
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Trend
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University of North Carolina
– Carolina
DAVID WILLIAMSON
Sept. 11, 2001
www.unc.edu/news/
newsserv/research/
herman091301.htm
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Research: U.S. boys also reaching
puberty earlier than in past years |
The results of studies on
the onset of puberty in American boys may be beginning
up to a half-year earlier than earlier research
has shown. Previous research on girls also has
also shown earlier starts, as early as third grade
(8 years old).
Society has had the challenge of handling
the sexuality of unattached young people since
the beginning of time. Early marriage was one
attempt to maintain order in society. Modern
societies tend to see education as the cure
to many societal problems. The question is;
is that enough?
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Human physical changes
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Source/Date
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Title
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Subject
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Trend
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National Public Radio Program
On the Media March 16, 2002
compcult.media.mit.edu/
afghan_x/who.htm
www.wnyc.org/
new/talk/onthemedia/
otmindex.html
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Robot Reporter |
Journalist, in order to get
around restrictions by the US government not allowing
them to report from war zones, have turned to
technology. A Robot called The Afghan Explorer
is mobile and has the ability to cover rough terrain,
take videos, capture sound and conduct two-way
interviews. It can even interact with local populations,
all with the reporter at a save distance.
This robot has yet to be tried, but will
be tested in Afghanistan.
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Technical trend- long-distance
media reportage |
Source/Date
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Title
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Subject
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Trend
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T + D Magazine
March 2002
Mary Mannion Plunkett
www.astd.org/
virtual_community/
td_magazine/td_current
_contents.html
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Turn Business Strategy Into
Leadership Development |
In a 10-year research project
the Boeing Leadership Center asked managers when
those lasting changes occurred. They reported
that learning came when it was necessary, when
they were “pushed to the end of their comfort
zones”.
There are many management and personal
development courses available. Each is trying
to create lasting positive changes for the individual.
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Better teaching and training
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Source/Date
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Title
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Subject
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Trend
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Society for Human Resource
Management
AP
March 20, 2002
webpublisher.lexisnexis.com/
index_edit.asp?layout=
story&gid=1830000983
&did=45CW-9860-
010F-N496-00000-00&cid=
1130004513&b=s
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JOB SWAPPING SOLD AS COMMUTING
SOLUTION |
It was found that of all employed
at fourteen branch offices of one bank, only 17
percent worked close to their residence. Using
special software, Gene Mullins is testing the
possibility of lowering traffic and giving employees
a chance at retraining.
Other advantages can be seen from helping
people to work in their own neighborhoods besides
cutting their driving time. It would enable
more time spent with loved ones, more chance
to be a part of their local community, shop
locally and volunteer or be politically evolved,
to say nothing of reducing traffic related stress
and costs.
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Sustainability - Cutting pollution
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from February 25, 2002
Source/Date
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Title
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Subject
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Trend
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New Scientist newsletter
Alun Anderson
Editor-in-Chief
New Scientist
www.newscientist.com/
hottopics/copyleft
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Copyleft – we have
reported on corporate power around patens and
property rights, a clear trend today. Now a movement
that is for free circulation of knowledge, has
grown in opposition to the patent, property rights
mentality.
Currently there is open source music, open
source encyclopedias, open -source law, even
open source soft drinks. New Scientist is testing
this concept at www.newscientist.com/
hottopics/copyleft
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Globalisering– Fighting
the patent mentality |
Source/Date
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Title
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Subject
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Trend
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Schaub
media@teesex.tamu.edu
NR 958
January 28, 2002
www.newscientist.com/
hottopics/copyleft/
New Scientist
February 2, 2002
Duncan Graham-Rowe
www.newscientist.com/
news/news.
jsp?id=ns99991862
New Scientist
April 11, 2001
Duncan Graham-Rowe
www.newscientist.com/
news/news.jsp?
id=ns9999618
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Texas A&M engineer developing
new engine to reduce oil dependence, save money
Microchip can turn heat into electricity Power
dressing
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Dr. Mark Holtzapple has
created an engine that captures the heat given
off in car exhaust and uses it to power the
car.
In another New Scientist
article a microchip is being developed that
can transform heat into electric current. It
is also thought to be applicable in car engines
and its electronics, charge laptop batteries
by recycling heat from the computer's microprocessor.
The same author told us
last spring of German scientists, who have developed
synthetic fibers that generate electricity when
exposed to light. Fibers could be woven into
machine-washable clothes giving them the ability
to function as portable solar cells.
It will be some time
before we actually see these inventions on the
market, but all three point toward a new attitude
toward more careful use of energy.
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Sustainability - energy
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Title
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Subject
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Trend
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Runt Krim
February 2002
Christina Nehlin
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Känslomässig förståelse
hos gärningsmannen gör försoning
möjlig
Feelings based understanding by the offender
make conciliation possible
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Restorative Justice is the
name of a movement to change the justice system.
One of the first to formulate these ideas was
Norwegian Nils Christie. Restorative Justice recognizes
three key parties to any crime: the offender,
victim, and community. Our current system is called
retributive justice, retributive justice, the
state considers itself harmed by the offense;
as its laws have been broken. New Zealand was
the first nation to consider the interests of
the victim, offender, and community in their court
system.
Restorative Justice appears to be spreading.
Some of the other countries mentioned are: Norway,
England, Belgium, Finland, Austria, Sweden and
the United States. One of the themes RJ is that
the state has taken over the responsibility
for solving problems for the local community.
Interest in the concept also is linked to a
trend we titled Local and Small.
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Solving deep social problems
in criminal justice. |
Source/Date
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Title
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Subject
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Trend
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The Economist
Dec 22, 2001-January 4, 2002
Page 36
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The Bridget Jones economy
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The recent census report (2000)
in The United States showed there were more one-person
households than families with children. They are
divorced, widowed or elderly. The biggest rises
in the last 100 years are young people, 20-24
years old (doubled) and 30-34 year olds who’s
proportions tripled.
Living alone is possible in a society where
women and men can support themselves. There
must also be high levels of education and stable
economic conditions without war. Any change
in those conditions could easily make this a
very vulnerable group.
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Living alone |
Source/Date
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Title
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Pennsylvania Department of
Education
February 13, 2002
Report
www.pde.psu.edu/
cybercs/
cybercsrev.html
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Cyber Charter Schools Review
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There was a time not too long
ago when computers came into many homes, that
distance education was thought to be the wave
of the future. The trend is, however, that it
is not for everyone, but is serving a group of
students with particular needs. Students are those
who need an enriched program, students with medical
problems, home schooled students and others.
Often we think that a new trend will take
over and dominate the old way of doing things.
However, it isn’t always so, it finds it’s
niche and provides us with another alternative.
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Alternatives in education
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Source/Date
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Title
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Subject
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Trend
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ABC Quantum Television
June 29, 2000
Also reported at the International Society
for Developmental Neuroscience Feb, 2002
www.abc.net.au/
quantum/is4ie/
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Schizo-D |
Ultraviolet light, which creates
vitamin D has found to have a relationship with
schizophrenia. Higher frequencies of the disease
are related to how much sun a mother got during
pregnancy. Naturally this is not the only cause
as it is also genetic, but it is one part of the
problem that can be easily dealt with.
Mental disease has been hidden in shame
and fear. Its victims have been locked away.
Changing this trend and improving mental health
is vital to a healthy community.
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Improving mental health
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Source/Date
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Title
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Subject
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Trend
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Icon International
February 13, 2002
www.icon-intl.com/
Forecasting Framework
Small Business, Local and Global, In the Future
January 2000
Natalie Dian
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Web site |
In 2000, a search on the Internet
for “barter trade” brought home 3032
responses. Two years later 166,000 were found.
The Wall Street Journal says bartering offers
companies a way to increase sales, move surplus
inventory and make use of excess capacity.”
Icon Intl. has created a new twist. Excess products
are traded for credits. However, the services
one can barter for are not necessarily those of
member companies. Instead they are services like
advertising space and airline tickets that were
bought when they were cheap. Naturally the barter
company profits from this exchange, while the
client gets production cost or less for items
it could not sell itself and services it needs.
Commercial barter exceeded $7 billion annually
in 2000. It works both locally and globally
exchanging goods and services. The U. S. Embassy
in Moscow pointed out that “The barter
system has value to the government and to society
as a social safety valve.”.
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Barter grows and develops
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from January 16, 2002
Source/Date
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Swedish Radio Channel 1, 14:30
p.m.
December 7, 2001
European Editors: Madeleine Fritsch, Per- Axel
Janzon och Elin Jönsson.
www.sr.se/
p1/europa/
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Europa |
At the same time that monetary
systems are becoming more regionalized (i.e. the
launch of the Euron) and globalized there is a
parallel, but opposite development of small local
economies developing in Europe. Such economic
systems are reported in Christiania Denmark, Damanhur
in Northern Italy and in England.
Bernard Lietaer, from the Belgian bank
who helped form the Ecu- project thinks there
should also be a complementary system of small
local currencies to protect against currency
crisis, short-sited speculation and social discrepancies.
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Local/sm. vs. global/lg.
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Source/Date
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Subject
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Trend
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University of Southern California
(USC)
Online Journalism Review
November 27, 2001
Tim Cavanaugh
http://ojr.usc.edu/
content/story.cfm
?request=668
Metro
December 13, 2001
Leif Holmqvist
Janne Sundling
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Källkritik och faktakoll
räcker inte all gånger
Critic of news sources and control of facts
isn’t always enough
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With a small budget MEMRI
(Middle East Media Research Institute) is providing
the world with the service of translating written
in Arabic to the English-speaking world. However,
They are accused of not reporting a wide enough
range of news and opinion, but pick stories
that reflect the most extreme of Arabic and
Islamic media. They are getting their stories
out to the press more effectively than comparable
groups.
In one of three articles
on media accuracy the authors write that journalists
“can be tricked sometimes, despite the
fact that checking sources and controlling facts
are the first thing one learns in journalism
school.
We have access to an
amazing amount of information and cannot always
count on journalists. There is a great burden
on us as individuals to sort out where information
comes from and what values and beliefs lie behind
each utterance, to do that we have to know what
we believe and value as well.
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More information – less
credibility |
Source/Date
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Title
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Subject
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Trend
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The Economist
Science and Technology
section
December 1-7 2001
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Global fish stocks - Fishy
Figures
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Unilever a company who is
the largest buyer of the worlds frozen fish and
The World Wildlife Fund set up Marine Stewardship
Council in 1998. They set up “standards for
sustainable and well-managed fisheries. They also
award those who reach their standards.
By the year 2005 we should be able to buy
fish with this criteria. After stories in the
press on Norwegian and Swedish “farmed”
salmon and their diseases, this will be a relief
for consumers and conservations alike.
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Sustainability- fishery fish
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Source/Date
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Title
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Subject
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Trend
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Utne Reader
November/December 2001
Andy Steiner
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Vandana Shiva |
The western concept of ownership
is reflected in the patent system it has created.
Recently discussed are patens on indigenous plants
(from rain forests), medicines and rice. Protests
were made regarding the patenting of basmati rice
that has grown in India for centuries. Due to
protests the patent office limited the patent.
All three of these areas of indigenous
plants, medicine (primarily for AIDS in Africa)
are seen as large (read Western) company take
over of third world’s natural resources.
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Globalization – Western
values of ownership |
Source/Date
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Title
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Subject
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Trend
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The Economist
December 8-14th, 2001
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The same-only more so?
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Leading technologies in the
near future will not be one specific industry,
but several. Experts see the mix as including
ubiquitous communications, intelligent systems,
protemics, fuel cells and nanotechnology.
This list shows just how ingrained the
knowledge society really is. It would be interesting
to know just how many people know what the titles
of these industries really mean! How are parents
going to advise their children and how are the
unemployed going to gain the new skills needed
in these fields? P. S. Protemics is the study
of human proteins and how they work. Nanotechnology
is a catch all word for anything created by
putting different atoms together to perform
a specific task.
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Diversity – a variety
of industries driving the economy, not just one.
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Source/Date
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Title
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Subject
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Trend
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January 9, 2001
Study of the nation's recycling and reuse industry.
www.yale.edu/
is4ie/
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National Recycling Economic
Information Project |
Recent research on the recycling
industry in the United States reveals the following
profile: paper and steel making, composting and
plastic and rubber product manufacturers, companies
that refurbish used electronic appliances, computer
equipment and office and home furnishings.
Gross annual sales of $236 billion and $37
billion in annual payroll and can be compared
in size and sales to auto and truck manufacturing.
Recycled plastics converters, with the help
of 178,700 employees convert recycled plastics
and take in $28 billion annually.
Recycling is developing as an industry
to recon with. The National Recycling Coalition
is trying to get more attention from the investment
community which is important to it’s development.
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Sustainability – Recycling
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Source/Date
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Title
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Subject
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Trend
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January 11, 2002
LAURENCE ARNOLD
Associated Press Writer
http://dailynews.yahoo.
com/h/ap/20020111/us/
amtrak_future_4.html
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Plans Would Take Amtrak's
Rails |
There are two small trends
here. One is the separation of trains from their
rails. This has been the case in Sweden for some
time. England has also separated the running of
trains from track care and maintenance. Now the
United States is trying to do the same thing.
The second trend is that both England and Sweden
are having trouble keeping the rails part of
the business viable. All the while train travel
is growing in all of the three companies mentioned.
Hopefully these are short term trends and
the one that will emerge will be improved and
well utilized, safe train travel.
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Sustainability- Train use
is growing and struggling to be competitive
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from December 08, 2001
Source/Date
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Title
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Subject
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Trend
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Red Cross
Cynthia Long, Managing Editor, RedCross.org
October 2, 2001
www.redcross.org/
news/ds/0109wtc/
011002dogs.html
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Therapy Dogs Lift Spirits
at Ground Zero |
The Red Cross is using dogs
in crisis situations to bring comfort to people
when talk is difficult. Humans found in dire situations
like school shootings or the recent World Trade
Towers attack are traumatized and their fear and
distress emit a scent that dogs smell immediately.
One method the dogs use is to go and sit next
to the traumatized person, wiggle a bit, make
a funny noise, move closer, and then make and
hold eye contact. At that point the person usually
breaks down and grabs the dog, hugging it for
comfort.
By keeping the emotional impact of tragedies
to a minimum we eliminate a deepening of the
problem to alcoholism, drug use, wife and child
abuse etc.
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Solving deep social problems
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Source/Date
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Title
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Subject
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Trend
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Healthy People 2010 –
Progress Review
July 8, 1999
http://web.health.gov/
healthypeople
/Data/PROGRVW/
MentalHealth/
default.htm
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Healthy People 2000 Final
Review |
Stress is one of the biggest
problems in the western world today. One approach
is a drive by U.S. health officials to get stress
management programs at worksites of 50 or more
people.
Last year they had hoped to have 40% of businesses
offer these programs in the work place. In 1992,
37 percent did so, an increase of more than
a third from 1985. In 1999, 48 percent of work-sites
provided stress management on-site or through
a health care plan.
Governments are paying more attention to
stress as the costs of stress related problems
rise. This is a part of a larger problem of
getting health costs down by emphasizing prevention.
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Prevention over cures
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Source/Date
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Title
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Subject
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Trend
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The Council of Europe
Press Release
June 21, 2001
http://press.coe.int/
cp/2001/452a
(2001).htm
see full text
Yes! A journal of positive
futures
Fall 2001
Metro
November 8, 2001
TT
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Walter Schwimmer: the Council
of Europe will not stop fighting against the
death penalty
Climate Breakthrough
Stötesten avklarad
vid klimatmöte
A bolder in the road has
been removed at the climate meeting
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Capital punishment is outlawed
throughout the European Union. The only NATO country
that has not signed is the U.S. Russia and Turkey
have agreed to abolish the death penalty. The
Council of Europe, Europe’s largest human
rights organization is pressing for the U.S. and
Japan to sign in a resolution that gives them
until 2003 to abolish the penalty. The U.S. risks
loosing it’s observer status in The Council
of Europe if it doesn’t comply.
At the UN Climate Conference in Bonn last summer
the consensus obtained is said to have the effect
of keeping the Kyoto process on track without
the involvement of the United States.
The climate meeting in Marakech recently has
agreed on a system for punishing those who don’t
reach the goals of the Kyoto agreement.
There are a number signs of American isolationism
returning. The major power of the world looking
to do what it feels is best for it’s citizens
independent of the rest of the world. What might
break this trend is internal criticism and being
left out of large international gatherings where
decisions are made without them.
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American isolationism
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Source/Date
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Title
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Subject
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Trend
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The New York Times
DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
November 5, 2001
www.nytimes.com/
2001/11/05/
international/
africa/05AIDS.html
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Patents or Poverty? A New
Debate Over Poor AIDS Care in Africa |
A collection of countries
called the ”Africa Group” has fought
for new rules that ignore patents of medications
needed to protect public health. They also fought
for regulations allowing poor countries to import
medicine. The forum for this discussion was the
WTO meeting in Doha, Qutar Nov. 9-13, 2001. They
won the right to make low-cost generic knock-offs
of medicines patented by multinational pharmaceutical
corporations.
This is a David and Goliath story. The
Africa group didn’t get everything they
asked for, but they came a long way toward making
medicines accessible to poorer people.
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Reducing health costs –
the poor |
Source/Date
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Title
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Subject
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Trend
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Recycling World
January 14, 20010
www.tecweb.com/
wlibrary/news00.htm
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Latest threat to textiles
trade |
Textile recycling is made
up of collecting and sorting for sale to developing
countries. Textiles are purchased at a low price
and resold in market places. German authorities
threaten that trade with their interpretation
of European regulations. They don’t consider
textiles collected within the EU to be of European
origin. Sorting is not considered a “treatment”
of the recycled materials compared with for example,
the process in making used paper into new paper
products. Exports of used clothing to non-EU countries
could be subject to high export duties (up to
200%) if German criteria are accepted. Some 100,000
jobs are at throughout Europe.
The Bureau of International Recycling says
that the recycling industry is coping with depressed
demand and prices. What does that mean for a
sustainable society?
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Sustainability – Recycling
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Metro
November 15, 2001
Jill Klackenberg/PM
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Rösten styr dataspelet
Ny generation spel på gång med
ännu mer realism
(Vioce driven computer games – new generation
games on the way with even more realism)
Dataspelsföretag uppmuntrar värvning
(Computer games companies encourage enlistment)
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If you want to know what skills
and competences young people come into the marketplace
with, just look at computer games. With given
characters, one can direct both what happens and
the characters themselves choose to do. Add the
capacity to direct the action both physically
and by voice and you have a virtual format for
any type of storyline.
The ramifications for training are enormous.
Training in dangerous situations, war, life
saving etc . An English computer games company
has a new war game out. They are being criticized
because they encourage players of their game
to enlist. Will the military see playing such
games and improving ones score as a making them
better warriors? Even training in social skills
can be learned this way.
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Advanced Cell Technology web
site
December 1, 2001
www.advancedcell.
com/animal
-program.html
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Farmers can produce best and
most profitable animals in the dairy and beef
industries, eliminating costly trial and error
breeding. Researchers can introduce genes to mice
to study disease and produce more effective medicines.
Pet owners can have cells taken from their pets
in expectation of the day when the pet dies and
it is possible to order it’s clone. We can
cure illnesses by eating eggs that have been implanted
with therapeutic proteins. Your favorite wild
animals are being saved from extinction by cloning.
All this is happening today and a human
could be cloned as early as six months predict
scientists. Are you ready? Have you sorted out
your values and come to a conclusion you can
both articulate and defend? Cloning was seen
as a possible future reality in the Study of
a Sustainable Society in 1996. For details,
see chapter 19, page 99 (Swedish version) and
page 57 of the electronic English version. The
book, Framtidsbygget
or A Tale of the Future can be purchased
at www.framtidsbygget.se
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Human and Animal cloning.
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