NATO's Future: Toward a New Transatlantic Bargain

The Future Interconnection Environment toward a New Computing Environment

P u b l i s h e d b y t h e I E E E C o m p u t e r S o c i e t y The Future Interconnection Environment In 1960, Marvin Minsky predicted that computers would be as smart as humans within three to eight years. Nearly half a century later, however, computing systems still cannot pass the Turing test. Despite impressive achievements in robotics, mathematical theorem proving, scientific classifica...

After Cancun: Possibilities for a New North-South Grand Bargain

Even more than the failed 1999 Seattle WTO ministerial meeting, events at the failed Cancun meeting underscore the deep divisions in the debate over globalization and trade policy. Moreover, Cancun also revealed significant change in understandings of these divisions. In 1999, the Seattle protesters were widely represented by the media as “protectionist” Luddites. In Cancun, there was little ta...

Toward a new future for healthcare and nursing practice.

The healthcare trends described in this article will eventually lead to transformation of healthcare delivery and nursing practice. The nursing profession needs to be proactive in creating new models of care delivery and in redefining the work of nursing. The authors describe 2 examples of emerging models and principles for the creation of future models, related leadership challenges for nurse ...

A Faustian bargain?

Few advances in science and technology have escaped the interests of the military—and indeed many have been fostered by those interests: for many years well over half of the uK’s r&D budget was directed towards weaponry, while military research in the former Soviet union virtually bankrupted civil society. Most weapons developments have engaged physics and chemistry, but the life sciences—not l...

A Look toward the Future