• Science and technology

• From past to future

• Food - transport - communication/computing - medicine
• Penicillin - Dolly - mobile phone - wheel - blood circulation - genetically modified food - Frankenstein - DNA - moon landing - Orson Wells - “Green Revolution“ - computer - WWW - steam railway - Wright brothers - potatoes - Human Genome Project - Global Seed Vault

• Identity and privacy

• Eamonn Fitzgerald’s blog - spotlight-online.de - spotlight
• Voyeurism - surveillance - CCTV - CIA - FBI - NSA
• howstuffworks.com: Can the government see what Web sites I visit?

• Genetics

• The Island (2005) - theisland-themovie.com - reviews
• Guardian: How stem cells can turn back the biological clock (2006)
• BBC “IF“ ... Cloning could cure us (2004)
• GM - GMO - ISAAA: Biotech Crop Countries (2007)
• Support for GM has been stable - Eurobarometer survey
• Designer food - nanotechnology - nano-machine - nanoparticle - How could such a beverage be made?

• Spot on facts

• Gene - DNA - chromosome - embryonic stem cells - adult stem cells - therapeutic cloning - reproductive cloning

• Facing the future

• Alex Shearer: “The Hunted“ (2005)
• J. M. Barrie: Peter Pan (1902)  
• Zager&Evans: “In the year 2525“ (1969) -
• Clear Channel - 2001 Clear Channel memorandum

• Spot on facts

• utopia - dystopia - science fiction

• Spot on language

•   Talking about the future

• future tenses - going to / will - future pr. - future perfect / pr.
• futurizon.com - BBC: Ian Pearson
• Rainer Hermann: Hightech für die Umwelt

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