The next few decades hold the prospect of remarkable progress in a wide range of pervasive technologies that are likely to have a profound effect on how we live, work, and spend our leisure time. These technologies are set to revolutionise the worlds of medicine, agriculture, travel,...

"The book is a key reading which provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the contemporary Asian economy. The book focuses on the structural changes that are rapidly transforming the regional economic landscape in the 21st century. It highlights the concomitant challenges that have...

Preface / Liz Mohn, Wolfgang Schüssel -- Introduction / Malte C. Boecker -- I. Asia's potential as a world power. Demographic dynamics of Asia / Carl Haub -- Asia's economic and technological outlook / Horst Siebert -- Asia, Europe and the global power balance / Paul Kennedy -- II. Asia's...