ABSTRACT

This quiz serves to prime the reader’s mind and begin the reading, thinking, and studying processes for this chapter. The answers to all of the questions are found within this chapter.

1. Do humans have the power to help shape the future? 2. Do futurists (i.e., people who study future possibilities) assist corpora-

tions, government (including the military), and other organizations? 3. What is trend analysis and extrapolation, and how can these meth-

odologies assist security? 4. Can a security practitioner study both internal metrics and external

metrics to identify cyclical patterns? 5. Is it true that the World Future Society forecasts that seawater will

eventually replace oil as a source of energy for vehicles? 6. What is the meaning of proliferation in reference to WMD? 7. What is globalization of hazard? 8. What is infrastructure-to-vehicle communications? 9. What is touch DNA?