Luxury items and community (environmental awareness)
which are an aspect of a more developed country and world,
will dominate the future outlook of many countries.
Leisure will turn to more niche activities as
individuals try to uniquify themselves in order
to remain an individual as a backlass of
technological/cultural crosssharing/travel.
Travel will grow
Cross cultural sharing will broaden our perspectives in
lifestyle.
Entertainment will homogenize as the world shares ideas with
each other.
ECTELA - Arts And Humanities
ECTELA - Social Sciences
The next generation of the social sciences
will follow closely the advances of the
furthur physiological understanding of the brain.
Societies are moving toward a global nature.
Global economies will dominate the 21st century.
Paradoxically this will give more power to the
smaller units, there will be more countries
individuals will be liberated by increased
communication and computer capability. The
smaller nations will be suppressed for a while as the
richer nations capitalize on them, but as time
progresses the smaller nations will form the
cornerstone of the future globe.
There will be cross-cultural homogenitety a
tendency towards it. Travel (already the
largest industry) will continue to grow.
As mobility and common-issues face us, the
common advancement of society maturation and
milestones of maturation will occur.
Third world countries will move from agragrian
to manufacturing to information.
ECTELA - Sciences
Fundamental sciences will be pointed in 7 major directions
1. Cosmology/Basic Physics.
2. Nuclear/Power Research
3. Space Research
4. Genetics Research
5. Materials Research
6. Signal Processing Research/ Telecommunications
7. Computer Sciences Research/ AI
ECTELA - Engineering & Technology
The future of science and engineering will be shaped
primarily by 4 things
1. Advances in biotechnology
a. Recombinant techniques will dominate the 21st century.
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2. Advances in computer technology
a. computer technology will merge
memory with function.
b. And AI , AI techniques will dominate.
3. Advances in telecommunications
a. Telecommunications will be shaped
by increasing CAP, NAP, and cellular structures
allowing for PDA technology
4. Advances in materials science.
a. Materials science will ultimately push
the envelope of computer technology as
NLO (optics + electronics nonlinear optics)
as well as harder substances, and finally
micro-molecular arrangement and manipulation is
allowed for.
ECTELA - Government and Law
The government will play less and less of a critical
role in the affairs of society.
For the following reasons :
1. Telecomm has allowed personal organization,
2. Large gov is no longer needd.
3. Law which is a function largely of info will be W3'ed
4. Local structures of politicas are more efficient 9##list Nais.
5. Natworked information has decreased distance between
politician and individual so no need for representative democ.
6. w/ advent of improved computers,networking societies can
participate at the individual level.
7. Local Tribaility will be more important.
8. Global warfare is pretty much obsolete, local wars will
take the form of civil wars. As more and more smaller,
countries are created.
ECTELA
- Community, Leisure & Recreation
