Keynote speaker on global trends, author of 16 Futurist books - Patrick Dixon.
Future Health Care and Pharma Keynote Speaker
The following was written after consultation meetings with NGOs in Calcutta, Bombay, Delhi and Manipur, March 1997, including visits to the sick and dying in rural areas and discussions with commercial sex workers.
India is about to be hit by the world's worst AIDS epidemic, as a country of almost a billion people. Soon there could be more people infected there with HIV than in the whole of Africa today, more cases perhaps by 2005 than the whole world has today. While many industrialised nations have chosen to ignore the devastation in Africa, the unfolding catastrophe in the Far East is already touching many other nations. It will have an obvious and significant effect on the world economy, threatening tiger economies and discouraging investment, with a heavy toll on the health of the workforce.
Read more: AIDS Crisis in India
Future Trends, Economy, Markets, Keynote Speaker
Reactions against globalisation will threaten international trade and economic growt. Expect calls to grow for trade barriers in some nations, with retaliation by others. Despite these things, expect huge growth in volume and value of imported or exported goods and services, especially between emerging economies such as India or China.
Read more: Growing Reaction Against Globalisation - Futurist Keynote Speaker
Future Relationships, Family, Marriage, Divorce
Married couples in future can expect adultery to be a normal part of their lives. Commitment should be based on mutual needs rather than romantic love. Those are the views of Professor Carol Smart of Leeds University.
(Archive material - published feature Daily Telepgraph in 1996).
Read more: The swing against "free love"
Future Health Care and Pharma Keynote Speaker
Foot and Mouth risk from deliberate spread? - economic terrorism risk using Foot and Mouth in animals as a biological weapon. Vaccination against Foot and Mouth urgently needed.
Read more: The Truth about Foot and Mouth
AI Artificial Intelligence Robotics Cybersecurity
For historical interest - a snapshot of life then....
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- 36% of all US homes have PCs and 30% of all those PCs are on the net.
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- One New York survey found 17% of men claimed to be on-line for more than 40 hours per week.
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- 58% had reduced TV watching.
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- Internet addiction is becoming a recognised problem.
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- Cable modems now capable of 30 megabits per second - 1,000 times faster than ordinary modems.
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- 2.9 million have bought services or goods on the net.
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- 1 million will make internet voice calls in 1997.
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Read more: Internet Archive Data 1997