The 100 Best Trends 2006: Emerging Developments you Can't Afford to Ignore

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About The Author George Ochoa and Melinda Corey have written or cowritten more than 30 reference books in every area of knowledge and popular culture. They review books for Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly and have published articles on business topics in a wide variety of publications. Table Of Contents Introduction I. Business and Industry Biotech Foods: A Comeback Come Fly with Me Conglomermedia Creative: Not a Dirty Word Globalization Continues Making IT a Utility Networked Businesses Shrinking Offices The Sleep Industry Venture Capitalists Are Back II Demographics Bigger Families, Younger Parents The Fattening of America Honey, I Shrunk the Middle Class Multicultural People World Population: Slowing Growth III. Entertainment and the Arts Decentralized Art Digital Hollywood Do-It-Yourself Entertainment Pirates of the Internet Stop the Presses-No More Newspapers! Web Lit. The Year-Round TV Season IV. Health and Medicine AIDS Across the Continents Alternative Medicine Do-It-Yourself Health Care Everybody's Bionic Female Physicians on the Rise Gene-Based Drugs Generics R Us Hormones All Around Hyper-Testing Medical Tourism More Alzheimer's More Diabetes The Solar Threat The Status Syndrome Telemedicine A Touch of Plastic Surgery Up with Health Care Costs Lifestyles The Colors of Money and Other Ways to Prevent Counterfeiting Community-Building The Decline of Spelling Distance Learning Grows Dust Thou Art-But Not in the Ground Gamblers R Us. More Bananas, Fewer Potatoes More Hidden Segregation The NASCARization of America The New Thrift, or Haute Penny-Pinching The People's Environmentalism The Pricing-Out of College Remodeling as a Way of Life Tutoring Galore Vegetarians Everywhere Wirelessness VI. Marketing Comfort Brands Gay-Friendly Marketing Good Buying Marketing to Grandma Person Advertising, or Mass Customization Teleshopping for Everything VII.Politics Asymmetrical Warfare Delocalized Politics China Rising Europe as Immigration Center Exurban Voters Independence Day (from Political Parties) India Prospering Islamic Flashpoints The ??L" Word-Liberal Remembering the Forgotten Continent States in Trouble VIII. Religion and Spirituality Christian Cool Christianity: Decline and Rise Homosexuality and the Churches Islam Evolving Neoagnosticism Pray Your Way to Health The Religion Shopping Mall The Union of Church and State IX. Science and Technology A Better Light Bulb: LEDs The Decline of the Web Browser Gaming the Search Engines Globally Warmer. The Incredible Shrinking Science Newgenics Opening up the Internet The Privatizing of Space RFID: Bigger than Bar Codes Rosie the Robot Redux The Science of Happiness Smart Devices To Catch a Thief, Better DNA Tests The War on Germs What a Tangled Web: Network Theory X. The Sexes Blondes Forever Father Goose Life After Feminism More Free Milk: Cohabitation Abounding The New Teen Facts of Life Index