Introduction Predictions often inspire lively discussion about the future and they can help stakeholders prepare to make adjustments to meet the needs associated with technological change. Those who think about the future are best poised to influence it and cope with it. Many futurists, scientists, and long-term thinkers today argue that the acceleration of technological […]
Introduction “The qualifications for self-government are not innate,” wrote Thomas Jefferson, “but rather are the result of habit and long-training.”[51. numoffset=”51″ Thomas Jefferson to Edward Everett, 1824, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (22 vols., 1905), edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, Vol. 16, p. 22.] Indeed, the development of citizens, key to […]
Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in December, 2008, for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life. Vali Nasr, author of the 2006 book, The Shia Revival, surveyed the geo-political landscape of today’s Middle East, arguing that the 2003 invasion of Iraq has fundamentally […]
Parent and Teen Survey on Gaming and Civic Engagement Summary[59. numoffset=”59″ Quantitative methodology statement prepared by Princeton Survey Research Associates International for the Pew Internet and American Life Project.] The Parent and Teen Survey on Gaming and Civic Engagement, sponsored by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative […]
As the international spotlight turns to China and the 2008 Beijing Olympics, international publics are showing signs of apprehension about the country and its growing power. Overall, favorable views of China have declined slightly over the last year, and this is especially true in Asia, as well as in Western nations, where enthusiasm for the […]
The role of online information in how people buy products is not always consistent with expectations. This concluding section discusses how online resources fit, or don’t fit, into people’s shopping patterns. The internet plays a central role for enjoying music after purchase, but it plays a lesser role in the music people choose and how […]
