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...story, set in the third millennium. His tale, The Hammer of God, about an asteroid that imperils the earth, is only the second piece of fiction ever to be published in TIME. (The first was a story by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1969.) The 74-year-old British futurist, who has written more than 50 books, is often as prescient as he is prolific. Clarke has long warned about humankind's vulnerability to asteroid impacts, a subject that is just now capturing the attention of the scientific mainstream. "I'm not a predictor," says Clarke. "I'm an extrapolator. Sometimes...
...help families cope with ever more intricate obligations, the government should allow large, extended families to incorporate themselves as businesses, suggests David Pearce Snyder, a consulting futurist. This would make families more productive and independent by giving them huge tax advantages that corporations enjoy: generous write-offs for helping each other with new business ventures, tuition funds and the ability to transfer wealth among members without being taxed. Such families would then be much better equipped to look after all their members, relieving the government and other institutions of that burden...
Leger, the cubo-futurist, also shows signs of the intense energy that characterized futurism. All the events in his painting "Fleur de Tournesol," painted in 1953, radiate with signs of motion. The petals of the flower seem to move towards the edges of the painting...
...trying to create an art playground," says Chris Wink, one of the three 30-year-old New Yorkers who formed Blue Man Group in 1988. Their backgrounds are as unexpected as the show. Wink, who used to write synopses of articles for a Japanese magazine, dubs himself a "disillusioned futurist." Phil Stanton was a drummer and an aspiring actor who met Wink when they worked together for a catering company. Matt Goldman, a high school friend of Wink's, got an M.B.A. and worked as a computer-software producer before joining the group...
...make it work." Still, computer chips the size of bacteria and motors as small as molecules of myosin are rapidly moving out of the world of fantasy and into the realm of possibility. "For years, scientists have been taking atoms and molecules apart in order to understand them," says futurist K. Eric Drexler, president of the Foresight Institute in Palo Alto, Calif. "Now it's time to start figuring out how to put them together to make useful things." With such powerful instruments to help them, scientists and engineers may finally be getting ready to do just that...