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John and Nana Naisbitt agree that high tech will only get higher, but they make the pessimistic point that simulation is also here to stay, with a kid playing his snowboarding video far more times than he actually whizzes down a mountain. This does not bother Chris Taylor, our San Francisco correspondent, in the least; answering the question Will I still be addicted to video games?, he happily predicts being plugged into a bioport, the star of his own virtual-reality show...
...best-seller lists, run the professional gamut: from pop-culture chroniclers like Faith Popcorn ("cocooning") and Douglas Rushkoff (Cyberia) through digital-media stars like M.I.T.'s Nicholas Negroponte and the Institute for the Future's Paul Saffo to buttoned-down management gurus like Peter Drucker and John Naisbitt (Megatrends...
...this century, an entire futurology industry has arisen to satisfy the planning needs of corporations, governments and military establishments. At the same time, the popular audience for social trends and future talk has grown steadily. Toffler (Powershift), John Naisbitt (Megatrends 2000) and Faith Popcorn (The Popcorn Report) have all made visits to the best-seller list in the past two years...
...Naisbitt and Aburdene, market is always the operative word. As proof of a resurgence in the arts, they report that "during the Renoir show at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the museum shop sold $8.3 million worth of T shirts, sweat shirts, exhibition catalogs, posters, and appointment calendars. At $2 apiece Renoir shopping bags grossed $100,000." There are no figures on how many visitors actually looked at the paintings...
...every passage is eupeptic or naive. Naisbitt and Aburdene are right to question the findings of the pessimists: even scientists disagree about the consequences of the greenhouse effect. And the authors acknowledge, however briefly, the social plagues of crime, AIDS and substance abuse. But these are mere blemishes in their grand design. "Our perspective," they declare, "our market niche in the vast world of information, is to highlight some of the positive...