Our science and technological advances in this present day are staggering indeed. What will the next 50-year period hold in store for mankind? Long life, multiple careers thus providing more transfer technology and sharing of ideas and concepts? What does this mean for over all civilization? If you have these thoughts and others like them; then let me recommend a worthy book in which you might read;


“500 Year Delta-What Happens After What Comes Next?� By Jim Taylor and Watts Wacker.

It is always interesting to re-read futurists books a few years after they were written to determine if they are of any actual value. Having always enjoyed these books, I have different views of the future than most and although mine may differ from most, I find this book to have been very well done. It is good and has for the most part withstood the test of time, even though certain economic indicators and media would have you believe otherwise. I recommend it for those who think the Dot Com Bomb means it is all over for the future with regards to the Internet, customers buying behavior and online transactions. It did not look too far into the future and probably missed at least a dozen new innovations in the pipeline that we all know about now, but for a 1997 Book it was damn good and still worth reading today.

If you can predict half of the next decade’s future innovations then you are truly a forsee’er and ahead of your time. They tried to predict the next 500 days, weeks, months and even years and did well. You might wish to read this book and perhaps you have some Isaac Asimov thoughts of your own. Think on it.

Lance Winslow II