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- GSREPORT UPDATE -- August 2003
- GSReport editor Michael Lindemann (writing under the pen name Michael Paul) announces publication of his new novel, Excelsior.
 Set in the year 2035, this meticulously researched sci-fi thriller focuses on potential dangers and abuses of biotechnology, including social tensions arising from the advent and misuse of human cloning, and the prospect of bio-terrorism using new generations of target-specific biological weapons.
Excelsior also depicts a world in which recreational space travel has become commonplace; and where the mounting pressures of global climate change, environmental decline, population growth and civil unrest push a super-rich entrepreneur to introduce a radical approach to urban security.
Excelsior is in trade paper format, 480 pages, ISBN 09630104-8-4, cover price $15.95.
Order your signed copy now, or learn more at the Chancellor Publishing website.
- GSREPORT SAYS FAREWELL...
- NOTE: Global Situation Report ceased publication on May 25, 2000 when founding editor Michael Lindemann accepted a full-time position with the San Francisco-based online media company One Cosmos Network, headed by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Joseph Firmage. Regrettably, One Cosmos fell victim to the tech-sector meltdown that began in the second half of 2000. The company folded in March 2001. That same month, Michael began work on Excelsior.
Watch this space for updates on forthcoming futurist writings by Michael Lindemann. Twelve of Michael's feature articles from GSReport are linked below.
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Future Focus
Perspectives on the Global Situation |
First Take: The View from Global Situation Report |
| Editorial: GSReport is not impartial. We have strong views on global trends and their causes which will guide our editorial policy.
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Energy: Can World Meet Demand of Next 50 Years? |
| The demand for energy will increase by at least 50% over current levels during the next 50 years, raising grave concerns over how so much energy can be produced without enormous environmental damage.
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Looking Ahead: Top Stories of the 21st Century |
| What will our children's children see as the top stories of the coming century? In this special report, GSReport editor Michael Lindemann suggests some possibilities.
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Megatrends -- Then and Now |
| Eighteen years after John Naisbitt published his mega-bestseller Megatrends, it's clear that he correctly predicted a number of important future trends, and also failed to anticipate some very big developments.
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China's Threat to the U.S. Should Not Be Overblown |
| Conservative U.S. lawmakers have claimed that Chinese theft of nuclear secrets has given China virtual weapons parity with the U.S., but most experts say such fears are greatly overblown.
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Amphibian Deaths: Environment's 'Canary in a Coal Mine' |
| Amphibians are dying all over the world, taking many species to extinction. So far, no one really knows why.
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Turkey: A Nation at the Crossroads |
| Turkey is a nation of rich history, strong aspirations and deep contradictions, situated where East and West, and past and future, meet.
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The Economic Boom: How Big, How Broad, How Long? |
| In February 2000, the current U.S. economic expansion became the longest in history, but some forecasters think it still has a very long way to go.
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Three-Currency World Now Seems Plausible |
| With the successful introduction of the euro currency, some economists and politicians are looking to the day when a dollar zone in the Americas and a yen zone in the Far East result in a three-currency world.
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High School Carnage Raises Old Questions Again |
| When two young killers massacred a dozen classmates at Columbine High in Littleton, Colorado, the whole world recoiled in horror and wondered aloud what has gone wrong in American society.
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The Future According to Gordon-Michael Scallion |
| Do the startling predictions of this 'Latter-Day Nostradamus' make sense? Some actually do -- but many others don't.
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Renewable Energy Generation Increasing Rapidly |
| Wind and solar power generating capacity is increasing very rapidly in many parts of the world, but it is still a tiny fraction of total energy capacity.
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The Global Situation is a Gestalt -- an integrated structure or pattern containing everything within the realm of present human experience, resulting from the interplay of numerous events and forces but also greater and more comprehensive than the sum of all parts. As such, the Global Situation cannot be known in its entirety at any given moment. But it can be understood, to a first order of approximation, as a four-dimensional entity occupying and defining a tetrahedral space (three dimensions) and moving in time (the fourth dimension). The tetrahedral space is bounded by four apexes, each representing a fundamental element of, or influence upon, the Global Situation. The four apexes are: Society, Science & Technology (Sci-Tech), Planet (Earth) and Cosmos.
Global Situation Report is a twice-monthly online journal addressing
events and trends that will shape our world, for better or worse, as we enter
the new millennium. Issues of concern include global population growth,
climate change, environmental destruction, emerging technologies, alternative
energy, economic stresses, regional conflict, and more.
In the view of GSReport, the years just ahead may be among the most
tumultuous in history. But the picture is not necessarily bleak. Out of
turmoil can come innovative social and economic reorganizations, staggering
technological breakthroughs, and reaffirmation of core human values. And the
limitless frontier of space beckons the next generation of pioneers, offering
challenges and opportunities undreamed of by generations past.
 Edited by Michael Lindemann and published by the 2020 Group, the Global Situation Report offers a unique blend of information and insight to help you
navigate the coming rapids of global change.
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| Planet Earth, seen from space as in this 1994 image from the GOES 8 satellite, is a singular opalescent lifeboat in the jet-black cosmic sea. Beneath its clouds and waves, it is home to countless billions of living things, including -- as of mid-1999 -- some 6 billion human beings. And alone among all the inhabitants of Earth, humans by their collective activities can fundamentally affect the living Earth, preserving or diminishing its ability to sustain life. At the turn of the millennium, we find ourselves at a crossroads of cosmic proportion. By the choices we make and the actions we do or do not take in the years immediately ahead, we will determine the quality of life -- indeed, life's very right to exist -- for generations to come.
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