Building on the principle that the "most reliable way to anticipate the future, the author identifies the following trends which will transform our lives:(1) Becoming an information society after having been an industrial one.(2) From technology being forced into use, to technology being pulled into use where it is appealing to people.(3) From a predominantly national economy to one in the global marketplace.(4) From short term to long term perspectives.(5) From centralization to decentralization.(6) From getting help through institutions like government to self-help.(7) From representative to participative democracy.(8) From hierarchies to networking.(9) From a northeastern bias to a southwestern one.(10) From seeing things as "either/or" to having more choices.