Chapter 9: Trends and Progress
Leading Positive Change


I. 4U’s Futurepedia: Envisioning Social Progress
II. Sci and Tech (S&T) Foresight: Trends & Visions
1. Information Sci and Technologies Overview
2. Nano Sci and Technologies Overview
3. Resource Sci and Technologies Overview
4. Engineering Sci and Technologies Overview
5. Cognitive Sci and Technologies Overview
6. Social Sci and Technologies Overview
7. Health Sci and Technologies Overview
8. Economic Sci and Technologies Overview
9. Political Sci and Technologies Overview
10. Security Sci and Technologies Overview
III. Societal (EEPS) Foresight: Trends & Visions
1. Sociocultural Foresight Overview
Cultures of China and the USA: Implications for Global Leadership
IV. Progress Hindsight Collection: Foresight Lost
A. Global
200 BCE: A Printing Press in Ancient Greece
50 CE: A Steam Engine in Ancient Rome
1000 CE: A Norse Democracy in America
B. United States
1896: Neoslavery Defeated (Reconstruction II)
1912: A Saved Titanic (Collaborative Foresight)
1938: A Ludlow Amendment (War Referendum)
1953: No US Coup in Iran – We Ally Instead
1955: Substantially Safer Cars
1965: A Defended South Vietnam (Vietnam War)
1970: A Fully-Realized EPCOT
1991: An Accountability Doctrine (Gulf War)
1993: Tablets and eBooks at the Birth of the Web
2000: Accelerated American Broadband
2007: An Autonomy Doctrine (Iraq War)