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* Future workers will earn the same anywhere in the world. Companies will likely cast broader nets in hiring. European firms, for instance, are increasingly strained to find qualified job applicants, according to Karlheinz Steinmueller, scientific director of Z_punkt Gmbh, The Foresight Company. So a worker would earn the same money in Australia, Sweden, and Japan, Steinmueller believes. - "Seeing the Future Through New Eyes," Nov-Dec 2008, p. 56
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* Medical tourism could be a boon for global health care, already a $40-billion business with 780 million patients. Michael Zey, author of Ageless Nation, says that a $400,000 bone marrow transplant in the United States would cost only $30,000 in India. "When you have international competition from more affordable hospitals in one country, it's likely to impact what hospitals in another country would charge," says Zey. - "Seeing the Future Through New Eyes," Nov-Dec 2008, p. 57
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* The future smells like marketing. Aromas travel directly to the brain's emotional centers, according to scientists. Perceptions registered by other centers travel through interpretive brain centers first and then arrive at the emotional centers. "Our relatively recent understanding of the prominence and influence of scent in our lives is rapidly changing the paradigm of how we market, sell, and deliver products and services to consumers," says C. Russell Brumfield, author of Whiff. - World Trends & Forecasts, Nov-Dec 2008, p. 9
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