"Emerging challenges"

"Issues Over the Horizon: Eleven Emerging Challenges" is the cover story of the Summer 2008 issue of the RAND Review (pdf, 32pp/2.17MB), a publication of the RAND Corporation. There are 11 essays on "important policy issues not currently receiving the attention they deserve in the public debate." Among the issues:

• The Aging Couple - Social Security and Medicare
• Corporate America's Next Big Scandal - corporate income tax avoidance
• Innovative Infrastructure - using electronic sensors instead of human inspection
• The Day After - when electronic voting machines fail
• Beating the Germ Insurgency - drug-resistant diseases
• A Second Reproductive Revolution - "egg banking" will stop the biological clock
• From Nation-State to Nexus-State - networks without boundaries