http://www.101future.com Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:04:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Fund of Funds is a mutual fund that offer diversification in several funds; instead of investing $10,000 in a single fund, investors would invest the fund of funds which, in turn, allocates the money across a number of funds in different fund families. http://www.101future.com/?p=75 Gonzo Golf is predicted to become a form of extreme golf which played on mountain ranges and deserts, for those who need more of an eco-challenge than the traditional green planes. http://www.101future.com/?p=70 Investorism is an emerging term that describes a new kind of investor consumerism, a movement that keeps us aware of scams and lets investors share their experiences and collective strength. For more, see www.investorism.com. http://www.101future.com/?p=67 Mindwash  is a term that will be used in the future to describe the impact of psycho-pharmacological agents on the way we think and feel. Whatever bad stuff grips us-all those demons of gloom, anxiety, doubt and fear- simply gets washed out in a wondrous kind of cranial irrigation. http://www.101future.com/?p=65 Conservakids – many years of healthy economy and the associated buoyant consumerism have created the Conservakids which is a generation of young people between 13 and 26 who are anxious to preserve the status quo and the institutions that have created their specific ersonal prosperity. For them, a radical gesture ... http://www.101future.com/?p=63 Geriatmosphere – is the future environment that is dominated by older people. Restaurants serving dinner at 4 P.M. and the associated assisted-living facilities all have a geriatmosphere. It is the place we all end up, whether we like it or not: when passing a certain age, you are launched into ... http://www.101future.com/?p=61 Language Extinction - The globalization, the Internet, media, and the increased movement of people which use English is the primary language, will threaten many local languages and dialects. It has been predicted that language extinction will become a major think of the future, and it will capture public awareness. We ... http://www.101future.com/?p=57 Extinction Savings Bank - About 30,000 species of plants and animals are becoming extinct each year as a result of pollution, over-fishing and other environmental abuse. Genetic techniques can already allow be used to preserve the DNA of these endangered species, which can be preserved until the cloning and genetic ... http://www.101future.com/?p=54 Virtual Immigrants will become a major work-force in the future. Immigration restrictions will no longer hinder knowledge workers from providing services, work, as technology workers to U.S. companies from their native countries-such as China, Russia and the Philippines. The economic impact is huge since these workers can eb hired at ... http://www.101future.com/?p=52 The term mannies introduced by USA Today describes the unexpected growth of both domestic and foreign-born male nannies. The prediction is that a new breed of young, athletic male nannies will emerge, as more older men become fathers, to take on the more demanding aspects of the job ... teaching ... http://www.101future.com/?p=50  Electronic, mechanical and biological technologies will be developed to increase the sensitivity of our senses (i.e. vision, hearing), cognitive abilities (brain power boosting with chemical drugs), physical abilities (biomechanical devices that provide bionically increased abilities). http://www.101future.com/?p=47  Privacy will be traded in for security in the future, and big brother will be watching and recording everyone and everything. The tradeoff here is security through the elimination of crime and violent illegal activities. Video and audio surveillance, biometrics and internet monitoring are some of the measures that will ... http://www.101future.com/?p=44 Our future society and economy will to a large degree depend on the innovation capacity of individuals and organizations. Innovation is key for technological and societal change and advance. Innovation will be the key for business competitiveness and survival. http://www.101future.com/?p=41 Major Factors That Will Influence Our lives In The Future are: -Speed; things will happen very fast because of transportation and communications. -Connectivity; everyone will be connected to everyone though electronic media. -Complexity; the complexity of society, business and the lives of individuals will increase dramatically because of the many factors and forces ... http://www.101future.com/?p=38 Nokia has predicted that a large proportion of entertainment consumed by people in the future be created, edited and shared within their peer circle instead of coming from traditional media groups. This is called ‘Circular Entertainment’. According to the predicted trend people will want not to create and share their ... http://www.101future.com/?p=34 We will see many different types of new airplanes in the future, and some concepts are already under development. The experimental concept aircraft from Boeing Phantom Works that will make every other plane look small. The wingspan is 500 feet and the total wing area that is greater than an ... http://www.101future.com/?p=27 Evolved from the age-old concept of matchmaking and blind date, online dating has progressed both quantitatively and qualitatively over the years, and is destined to continue to do so for years to come.  Whereas online dating originated as nothing more than scanning names and pictures of singles, popular websites such ... http://www.101future.com/?p=24 Development by 2024 of the Cosmoplane - a successor to Concorde - will make it possible for adventurous travelers to go farther and faster. More traditional types of destinations won't be crowded out of the picture. In fact they'll just get more crowded as an aging population swells the ranks ... http://www.101future.com/?p=22 The ageing trend is a megatrend that will have enormous influence on healthcare in the future as people not only live longer (life expectancy is expected to be 100+ by 2020 for many countries) but expect to be well for longer too. Obvious impacts include higher expenditure on pharmaceuticals and ... http://www.101future.com/?p=20 As much as 56% of men and 43% of women aged 18-24 still live at home in the US. In Japan young adults that won’t leave home are called parasite singles (because they pay little or no rent) while in Australia they’re called boomerang kids (because you throw them out ... http://www.101future.com/?p=18 Invention Probability by 2050* Invisibility cloaks 85% Emotionally aware machines 100% Robotic soldiers 100% Vertical city farms 90% Fully sensory internet 100% Childcare robots 90% Robotic surgery 100% 3D printers 100% Oceanic thermal converter 60% Programmable matter 80% Injections to treat addictions 100% 150 GB memory sticks 90% Mobile phone implants 50% Wireless speakers 95% Everlasting chewing gum 5% Everlasting gob stoppers 10% Downloadable dreams 2% GPS shoes ... http://www.101future.com/?p=16 The future of E-learning is very bright, indeed. This concept has been expanding at a very rapid rate as more and more uses for the computer in education have been discovered and attempted. On the traditional college campus, there is a trend toward the development of a Virtual Learning Environment ... http://www.101future.com/?p=12 The income per person (or GNI/Population) represents the well being of the population. According to the World Bank, the world economy is divided into the following income groups: Low Income= $825/year or less; Lower Middle Income= $826 to $3,255/year ; Upper Middle Income= $3,256 to $10,065/year ; and High Income= ... http://www.101future.com/?p=10  A UNICEF survey reports that more than 1 billion children are suffering of basic "deprivations" : One billion children means about 500 millions girls. These girls who are today 5 years old, will marry in 2010-2015. Since they are mostly living in Africa and the Middle East ( With high ... http://www.101future.com/?p=6 Possibly the ultimate Next Big Thing in the history of computing, AI has been the dream of computer scientists since 1950 - when Alan Turing introduced the Turing test to test a machine's capability to participate in human-like conversation. In the context of the Web, AI means making intelligent machines. ... http://www.101future.com/?p=3