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Future Predictions: The Futurists Magazine Top 10 Forecasts 2011 Video and Access List of Past 250 Forecasts

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July 18, 2011

Access The Futurist Magazine 250 Forecasts

“Each year since 1985, the editors of THE FUTURIST have selected the most thought-provoking ideas and forecasts appearing in the magazine to go into our annual Outlook report. Over the years, Outlook has spotlighted the emergence of such epochal developments as the Internet, virtual reality, and the end of the Cold War. The forecasts are meant as conversation starters, not absolute predications about the future. Below are the editors’ top 10 forecasts from Outlook 2011. Click the the lead sentence on each to scroll through the slideshow. On this page, you’ll also find more than 250 forecasts from Outlooks past.” Source:>>>>


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World Future Predictions: Who is Next? As U.S. Debt Rating Agency Cuts to Double-A-plus from Triple-A

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July 18, 2011

In Egan-Jones’s a relatively small bond rating firm stated this weekend that it had adjusted the U.S. rating down, committing that the “relatively high level of debt and the difficulty in significantly cutting spending” its reason for cutting the U.S. sovereign debt

to double-A-plus from triple-A.


“We are less concerned about a short delinquency caused by a delay in raising the debt ceiling than we are about the relatively high debt to GDP,” Sean Egan, the firm’s president, said Monday in an email. “We also are concerned about the costs of three undeclared wars (near $3 trillion), failures to take meaningful actions to address the causes of the debt crises (the cost was near $2 trillion), and the rise in entitlement payments stemming from the retirement of the baby boom generation.”

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Future Predictions: Global Warming Keeping You Inside? Get Outside With Air-conditioned Clothing!

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July 18, 2011


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“Kuchofuku, Inc., which develops and sells air-conditioned clothing equipped with a direct cooling system, based on the physiological cooling theory, has started selling its new line of “air-conditioned clothes for outdoor work”. Two small fans are attached on the right and left sides of the back of the jacket just above the waist, creating a flow of air running parallel to the body. This air flow dissipates heat and causes the evaporation of sweat, promoting the ideal cooling level with a minimal amount of energy. The new product line including air-conditioned jackets with hoods to accommodate workers at job sites which require helmets to be worn.”

The firm also engineered air-conditioned beds, seat cooling devices, and other body heat reduction controlling units for general use.

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