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Change: Sustain. & Social Resp., Org Dev Stats1. Positive (Inspiring, Insightful, Clarifying, or Cool)2. Mixed/Uncertain (Complex, Multifaceted, Positives and Negatives, Meaning Unclear) BizStats Industry Sector Employment Trends Employment 2007 Projected 2004 Actual 1994 Actual Change 94-04 % Change 94-04 Agriculture-forestry-fishing-hunting 1,915 2,140 2,890 -750 -0.26 Mining 507 523 577
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Change: Sustainability & Social Responsibility, Org. Dev. Society (Small): Personal: Family, Relationships, Lifestyle,Careers, Careersand Lifestyle MultidisciplinaryUnclassified Top Foresight Statistics1. Positive (Inspiring, Insightful, Clarifying, or Cool)1.7 billion of 6.7 billion people regularly use the world wide web as of 2009. (Internet
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Change: There were only format changes (bold, italics, etc.) in this version. See this version for details.
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Change: Fiction Unclassified Top Foresight Statistics1. Positive (Inspiring, Insightful, Clarifying, or Cool)1.7 billion of 6.7 billion people regularly use the world wide web as of 2009. (Internet World Stats)2. Mixed/Uncertain (Complex, Multifaceted, Positives and Negatives, Meaning Unclear) In the next 10 years
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Change: echnology (Engineering, Infotech, Sociotech, Cognotech, Biomedtech) Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Economics, Finance, Globalization, and Capitalism Politics, Security, Health Care, Rights, Democracy Society (Big): Culture: Society, Ethics, Media, Education, Religion Society (Medium): Organizational: Management, Business, Org. Development Society
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Change: illustrates the possible doom of these beautiful creatures. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070907224237.htm All material on this page is open source, creative commons licensed by FERN. Feel free to use any portion of this with appropriate attribution to "Foresight Education and Research Network" or "FERNweb.org."
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Change: “...the households that owed nothing on credit cards equaled 55% of the total...of the households that did carry a balance, the median amount owed was $1,900.” Americans don't carry as much debt as one might think. (Source: http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Banking/creditcardsmarts/P74808.asp, Liz Pulliam Weston, ND) – R.J. Jundt Unemployment rates
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Change: By identifying different factors affecting a country's overall technology rating (includes things such as creativity and productivity of scientists, spending on R&D, internet and PC penetration), the weak spots can be targeted and bolstered. -Bill Nega 2. Mixed/Uncertain (Complex, Multifaceted, Positives and Negatives, Meaning Unclear)The golfer Tiger
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Change: The amount of optical fiber a country is importing can be a good indicator of how quickly you can expect powerful computing networks to grow there in the next 5-10 years. -Bill Nega 2. Mixed/Uncertain (Complex, Multifaceted, Positives and Negatives, Meaning Unclear)The golfer Tiger Woods
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Change: Energy usage per person is surprisingly uneven, even considering countries of similar developmental levels. A good example is comparing the UK to the USA; the average UK person uses less than half that of the average US person. -Bill Nega 3. Negative (Disturbing, Angering, Scary, or Uncool)Oil usage
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Change: Most developed countries have all of their schools connected to the internet, but a depressingly small amount of African and Latin American countries have a good percentage of schools connected to the internet. This could soon be changing with the One Laptop Per Child initiative. -Bill Nega Society
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Change: The length of compulsory education, in years, varies greatly between First World and Third World countries. Some, such as Angola, only require 4 years of
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Change: IS THIS? CAN'T GIVE CREDIT w/o A NAME)Almendariz)47% of US adults have high-speed internet connections at home as of early March 2007, up five percentage points from a year earlier. (Source: http://www.pewinternet.org/report_display.asp?r=217) -EduardoAguirreA review of TiVo statistics from Superbowl
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Change: The future of Agriculture from the Sciences behind it to job outlook. This article describe what the future of agricultural studies in America will be
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Change: This artical goes in to detail on some of the changes that are projected to happen to our workforce by 2014. It talks of current trends in age and labor force demographics. Some demographics I found interesting. Like the transportation industry is pretty much at its optimal effiecancy and
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Change: position is that providing free airtime for politicians [as they used to have to do] is an infringement of their "corporate free speech" rights, and they recently (2002?) spent $10 million on congressional lobbying to keep it that way." Charles Lewis, Center for Public Integrity.Integrity (paraphrased). Source: Orwell
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Change: "Media corporations don't cover political news anymore. Political news coverage in 2000 was half what it was in 1996, and 1996 was half what it
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Change: This is a YouTube video about society in general and a possible future.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7FP1kgtD8UEnvironmental IssuesHere's a page that tells about climate change and rising global tempratures.http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/statistics/globatmos/gagcc.htmHealth IssuesThis is a link to statsitics about the alarming rate
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Change: This is a link to statsitics about the alarming rate at which the number of people with Diabetes is growing and how we may be underestimating it.http://www.dlife.com/diabetes-news/statistics/Top Ten ForecastsHere's an interesting page of the top ten forecasts from Outlook 2008. It ranges from how
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Change: . Negative (Disturbing, Angering, Scary, or Uncool) In the first half of this fiscal year, the Defense Department's "average monthly obligations for contracts and pay is running about $12 billion per month, well above the $8.7 billion in FY2006," says a new report, obtained by DANGER ROOM,
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