The Future Issue: What's Next in Technology, Energy, Banking, Medicine, Offices, Education

摘要

"Fortune's Guide to the Future" involved talking to "dozens of researchers, forecasters, security experts, and analysts whose jobs are to peer around corners, and we asked them to paint a picture of the world 10 years out." The portrait sometimes turned dark: "cyber terrorism, resource shortages, and political instability around the world are all inevitable. But the experts offered a mostly optimistic view of the future, based on the mind-boggling scientific and technological advancements that will improve the way we learn, work, and play. Even the U.S. economy, which seems stuck in the doldrums, should come back strong in the second half of the coming decade."