What Will 2021 Be Like?

What is and what will be

This version of What is and what will be has images distributed throughout the text as visual poetry. The images were mostly taken at Esalen Institute near Big Sur California and at my home in the Santa Cruz Mountains near San Jose California. The dolphin pictures and a few others were taken in Hawaii. The images in this version are formatted at 72 dots per inch. This is suitable for viewing on...

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Leaders Prion diseases: what will be next?

In recent history there is probably no group of disease that has caused more surprises or shocks than the group of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or prion diseases as they have become known. Grouped together on the basis of their neuropathology, showing vacuolation of the neuropil or neurones, or both (spongiform change) (fig 1), they present a variable clinical picture; nevertheles...

Predicting what extra-terrestrials will be like: and preparing for the worst.

It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien biospheres operating in any manner other than Darwinian. Yet, it is also widely assumed that alien life-forms will be just that: strange, un-nerving and probably repulsive. There are two reasons for this view. First, it is assumed that the range of habitable environments available to extra-terrestrial life is far wider than on Earth. I suggest, howe...

research outputs Personalisation : what will the impacts be for carers ?

Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. Abstract Much has been written about personalisation and the potential that this agenda holds for change within welfare services. Although carers have been...