Sohail Inayatullah is a political scientist and futurist. He is a Professor at Tamkang University, Taiwan, and Adjunct Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast (Australia). You can find more of his articles at http://www.metafuture.org
While there is a great deal of bad, indeed, horrendous, news in the world - global warming, terrorism, the global financial crisis, water shortages, worsening inequity - there are also signs of positive change
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