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MORRISTOWN, NJ (Expansionary News Service) July 15, 2002. On Sunday, July 21, 2002, at the World Future Society conference held at the Loew’s Philadelphia Hotel, Dr. Michael G. Zey will deliver his speech, “WHY THE FUTURE HASN’T HAPPENED: How Politics, Ideology, and Economics Can Sabotage Technological Progress”.

Internationally-acclaimed sociologist/futurist Dr. Michael G. Zey, author of the controversial and inspiring  book, The Future Factor: The Five Forces Transforming Our Lives and Shaping Human Destiny (McGraw-Hill), has some startling insights into why many promising technologies find unexpected resistance.

According to Zey, nuclear fusion development is stymied by economic interests that view this new form of energy production as a threat to established energy sources such as oil and coal. High-speed rail must contend with opposition from the airlines and representatives of other transportation modalities. Moreover, the zero-growth anti-technology group challenges these and other innovations such as genetically-modified foods on purely ideological and philosophical grounds.

However, Dr. Zey, a leading proponent of the nascent pro-growth Expansionary philosophy, will demonstrate that in spite of such resistance, “necessity will overcome ideology”--society’s need for energy, food, and transportation will eventually mandate that society adopt these technologies.

TO INTERVIEW DR. ZEY ON THIS IMPORTANT ISSUE, CONTACT HIM AT 973-538-8192, OR E-MAIL HIM THROUGH WWW.ZEY.COM. He will also be available for interviews at the conference from July 19 through July 22. His cell # is 973-879-4776.
About Michael G. Zey

     Dr. Michael Zey’s controversial and original views on social and techno-trends have appeared in Worth, The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, Newsweek (Japan), and XMSatellite’’s USAToday/Newstalk station, as well as on WABC’s “Batchelor and Alexander Show”.

Dr. Michael G. Zey, whom Booklist claims “could be the next Alvin Toffler”, consults to corporations and government agencies on future planning, speaks regularly about the future on the international lecture circuit, and has appeared on The Wall Street Journal Report, CNBC, CNN, and The Turning Point, and in Forbes, Internet World, Windows, and La Monde. Michael Zey has authored numerous books including Seizing the Future and The Mentor Connection. He recently has appeared on Radio Free Europe, “The Morning Edition” (KVON -San Francisco), CNNfn, the popular “Mike Murphy Show” on KCMO-AM, the nationally-syndicated “Laura Lee Show”, and “The John Jackson Show” on WMAY, Chicago, and  Radio Business Network's nationally broadcast Jesse Berst Show.

He serves as Executive Director of the Expansionary Institute (www.zey.com) and is a Full Professor at Montclair State University, NJ.

(Source: Expansionary News Service, Morristown, NJ.)