By Rick Slaughter
During this booklet, Richard Slaughter attracts at the quite new yet speedily constructing box of futures reports to demonstrate how our considering needs to swap with a purpose to care for the demanding situations offered by way of the hot millennium. In doing so he brings jointly the most recent paintings from a few of the prime foreign names in futures considering. half One considers the principles of futures pondering in background, literature and ideas. half explores the various ways in which futures reviews were and are being utilized in numerous academic contexts world wide, from pre-school to postgraduate degrees. half 3 takes the an important step from institutional studying to social studying, and explores how futures presents us with insights which may aid consultant our society into the recent millennium, including feedback for the advance of the sector itself. This ebook is vital interpreting for academics, scholars and a person drawn to the perils and promise of the twenty-first century.
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Such a wave would be comparable to, but very different from, the counterculture of the 1960s. It would be a reaction against the 1980s, much as the 1960s could be read as a dialectical negation of the 1950s. But will it happen? Who knows? The point is not to predict and say, yes it will, or, no it won’t. The point is to imagine what it might be like as a way of anticipating possible moves for the human spirit. The several questions in the previous paragraph are all questions of values. They do not turn on questions of technological feasibility but on the very human question of what people will want in their lives in ten years’ time.
Who knows? The point is not to predict and say, yes it will, or, no it won’t. The point is to imagine what it might be like as a way of anticipating possible moves for the human spirit. The several questions in the previous paragraph are all questions of values. They do not turn on questions of technological feasibility but on the very human question of what people will want in their lives in ten years’ time. What part of a full human life will be most scarce and therefore of the highest value?
To the extent that we mimic scientists in claiming value-free objectivity in our view of the future, we deny the very thing that makes us good human beings and good futurists. We deny that we care. But we must care. If we do not, we are doomed to a dreadful future. All very well and good, you say. But so far we have only the makings of a windy commencement address. Where’s the beef? TWO STRATEGIES FOR LINKING THE TWO OBJECTIVES I’ve mentioned two objectives for this chapter—justifying normative scenarios and rethinking the place of futures studies in the context of other academic disciplines.