JeromeGlenn

The "one issue that is the most important" is to stop thinking like that. Is the brain more important the the heart? hence we stay with 15 global challenges as a system to understand global change, just like we have the respiratory system, nervous system, etc to understand the human body. There is plenty of work go around - telling people to focus on one just leads to someone else saying wrong, something else is more important to focus on. Imagine asking a conductor in an opera, what is the most to focus on, the singer, the trumpet, the score...

My vision of the future is "Conscious-Technology" in a book I wrote back in the 1980s call Future Mind - human consciousness our tech become a continuum. The tech actually confirmed it rather than changed it - near-nanotech sensors in the built environment, tele-everything or the "internet of things," synthetic biology, Google voice search. 3D printing price falling came a bit faster than I expected.

Sure, he was the greatest!The secrete to how he wrote so much? he would hire people like me to write paragraphs on some subject, that he would assemble into a book - it was like and idea assembly factory.

I think he is a welcome addition to the futurist conversation. Just like you want some salt in your food, but don't want to each just salt, so too Ray brings an excellent flavor to the futurist conversation, but expecting him to solve the Sudan work or stop organized crime is not likely.

I don't "know" the future. An extra terrestrial could land on the White House and all bets are off. You can see some of the future global future scenarios I have written at http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/scenarios.html some by Ted Gordon my partner in creating the MP - we even did 1,000 year scenarios - here are a couple like that, that I wrote: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/m3000-scenarios.html#Scenario 1 and http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/m3000-scenarios.html#Scenario 4 But as I mentioned before, I think the conscious-technology future as a post Information Age is likely.