The Futurist Directory
Author | : World Future Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780930242565 |
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Author | : World Future Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780930242565 |
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Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business forecasting |
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Author | : Heiko A. von der Gracht |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2008-07-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 3834997641 |
Based on 51 interviews with logistics CEOs, strategists, and scenario experts, Heiko A. von der Gracht shows that the logistics service industry draws a backward picture of scenario planning practices as compared to other industries.
Author | : Jenny Andersson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2018-07-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192545507 |
The Future of the World is devoted to the intriguing field of study which emerged after World War Two, futurism or futurology. Jenny Andersson explains how futurist scholars and researchers imagined the Cold War and post Cold War world and the tools and methods they would use to influence and change that world. Futurists were a motley crew of Cold War warriors, nuclear scientists, journalists, and peace activists. Some argued it should be a closed sphere of science defined by delimited probabilities. They were challenged by alternative notions of the future as a potentially open realm. Futurism also drew on an eclectic range of repertoires, some of which were deduced from positivist social science, mathematics, and nuclear physics, and some of which sprung from alternative forms of knowledge in science fiction, journalism, or religion. These different forms of prediction laid very different claims to how accurately futures could be known, and what kind of control could be exerted over what was yet to come. The Future of the World carefully examines these different engagements with the future, and inscribes them in the intellectual history of the post war period. Using unexplored archival collections, The Future of the World reconstructs the Cold War networks of futurologists and futurists.
Author | : Thomas Lombardo |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2006-06-23 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1467805955 |
Contemporary Futurist Thought describes recent thinking about the future, dealing with both the hopes and the fears expressed in modern times concerning what potentially lies ahead. There are many such hopes and fears perhaps an overpowering number, competing with each other and swirling about in the collective mind of humanity. Psychologist and futurist Tom Lombardo describes this mental universe of inspiring dreams and threatening premonitions regarding the future. The book begins with an in-depth examination of the highly influential literary genre of science fiction, which Dr. Lombardo identifies as the mythology of the future. He next describes the modern academic discipline of future studies which attempts to apply scientific methods and principles to an understanding of the future. Social and technological trends in the twentieth century are then reviewed, setting the stage for an analysis of the great contemporary transformation occurring in our present world. Given the powerful and pervasive changes taking place across the globe and throughout all aspects of human life, the questions arise: Where are we potentially heading and, perhaps more importantly, where should we be heading? The final chapter provides an extensive review of different answers to these questions. Describing theories and approaches that highlight science, technology, culture, human psychology, and religion, among other areas of focus, as well as integrative views which attempt to provide big pictures of all aspects of human life, the book provides a rich and broad overview of contemporary ideas and visions about the future. In the conclusion, Dr. Lombardo assesses and synthesizes these myriad perspectives, proposing a set of key ideas central to understanding the future. This book completes the study of future consciousness begun in its companion volume, The Evolution of Future Consciousness. These two volumes, rich in historical detail and concise observations on the interrelatedness of a wide range of interdisciplinary topics, are a significant contribution to the field of future studies and a valuable resource for educators, consultants, and anyone wishing to explore the significance of thinking about the future.
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Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Business forecasting |
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Author | : Howard F. Didsbury |
Publisher | : World Future Society |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780930242589 |
Comprises a collection of 26 futurist essays.
Author | : M. Solovey |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2012-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137013222 |
From World War II to the early 1970s, social science research expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion in the United States. This volume examines how, why, and with what consequences this rapid and yet contested expansion depended on the entanglement of the social sciences with the Cold War.
Author | : Stuart S. Nagel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Associations, institutions, etc |
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Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Scholarly publishing |
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