January 16, 2012 Vol. 165 No. 1 / Fortune Asia
THE FUTURE ISSUE
28 Fortune's Guide to the Future
Supercomputers that fit in your hand. Meat that grows in labs. Solar power窶杷rom
space. Welcome to the year 2022. It's a wild place.
BY NINA EASTON
31 The Office of Tomorrow
Imagine a technology wonderland filled with cool toys like 3-D printers, hologram
tables, and office windows that turn into media screens.
38 Why Ryan Seacrest Is the Future of Media
The one-man brand produces TV, chats up stars, and woos advertisers. He's an
emblem of where show biz is headed.
BY DANIEL ROBERTS
39 A New Vision for Cities
As the world population expands, cities will have to transform. Here come foldable
cars and flexible apartments.
BY ALEX KONRAD
40 The Hottest Tech Gig of 2022: Data Scientist
By the end of the decade, 50 billion devices will be emitting information nonstop.
Data scientists will help manage it all.
BY JESSI HEMPEL
41 Four Zany Ideas That Could Come True
Big changes are coming to the way we bank, educate our kids, treat diseases, and
eat.
43 Solving the Energy Challenge
Scientists around the globe are working on radical technologies, from 500-mile
car batteries to solar farms in space.
BY ANNE VANDERMEY AND STUART F. BROWN
50 The All-American Con Man
The many lives of Barry Minkow: entrepreneur, fraud fighter, pastor, movie
actor窶蚤nd serial swindler.
BY ROGER PARLOFF
64 The Education of Governor Rick Scott
The scandal-tarred CEO turned Tea Party darling is learning that running a state
isn't at all like running a company.
BY TORY NEWMYER
4 FIRST
By the Numbers
The Metropolitan Opera's new act.
BY SHELLEY DUBOIS
7 FIRST
Closer Look
In the midst of the eurozone crisis, a ticking time bomb: the derivatives market.
BY CHARLES P. WALLACE
8 FIRST
The Briefing
Fast food goes gluten-free, mining money on the moon, victims of auto-correct,
and more.
9 FIRST
The Best Advice I Ever Got
Sal Khan, founder and executive director of the Khan Academy.
INTERVIEW BY ELLEN FLORIAN
10 FIRST
Campaign 2012
Mitt Romney means business.
BY DAVID WHITFORD
14 FIRST
Road Warrior
Citigroup's Wei Hopeman transcends time zones.
BY SCOTT GUMMER
15 FIRST
Brainstorm
The wired doctor: Cloud-based systems can help physicians cut costs and mistakes.
BY BRIAN DUMAINE
19 VENTURE
How We Got Started
Crate & Barrel founders Carole and Gordon Segal.
INTERVIEW BY DINAH ENG
23 INVEST
Wall Street Interview
Victor Khosla: seeking profits in Europe's woes.
BY AMY FELDMAN
25 INVEST
The Search for Dividends
Mortgage REITs offer yields so lofty they're likely to fall. But they may have
potential for investors.
BY JON BIRGER
72 Bing!
OPINION
26 Geoff Colvin
Wall Street expects corporate miracles in 2012, and that means trouble.
27 Dan Primack
Congress is working to fix an imaginary IPO crisis.
CORRECTIONS
In "Advice From the Expert Roundtable" (Dec. 26), we truncated a comment by
Richard Bernstein. It should have read: "The S&P 500 (SPX) has now outperformed
the emerging market index for four years窶琶t's down 14.5% since the end of 2007,
vs. a decline of 41.1% for the Morgan Stanley BRIC index." And in "The Best and
Worst of Wall Street" (Dec. 26), we misspelled the last name of Prakash Narayanan.
Fortune regrets the errors.
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