The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies 2020

The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies 2020

Author: Richard Slaughter

Publisher:

Published: 2020-07-02

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780985761936

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The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies 2020 updates previous efforts that brought together representative collections of the best work of futures studies and foresight. The works of leading practitioners and emerging voices are woven together to create a picture of how the landscape of futures thinking has evolved since the last edition in 2005. The thirty-one essays follow a reader-friendly house style aimed at practitioners and students.


New Thinking for a New Millennium

New Thinking for a New Millennium

Author: Richard A. Slaughter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 113479391X

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The study of futures is an area of increasing interest and one that is comprehensively examined in this new collection, with contributions from key names in the field.


Foundations of Futures Studies: History, purposes, and knowledge

Foundations of Futures Studies: History, purposes, and knowledge

Author: Wendell Bell

Publisher: Transaction Pub

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9780765805393

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Futures studies is a new field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures. It aims to demystify the future, make possibilities for the future more known to us, and increase human control over the future. Author Wendell Bell brings together futurist intellectual tools, describing and explaining not only the methods, but also the nature, concepts, theories, and exemplars of the field. Now available in paperback with a new preface from the author, Foundations of Future Studies is the fundamental work on the subject. Bell illustrates how this sphere of intellectual activity offers hope for the future of humanity and concrete ways of realizing that hope in the real world of everyday life. His book will appeal to all interested in futures studies, sociology, economics, political science, and history.


Foundations of Futures Studies, Volume 1

Foundations of Futures Studies, Volume 1

Author: Wendell Bell

Publisher: Transaction Publishers

Published:

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 141282379X

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Futures studies is a new field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures. It aims to demystify the future, make possibilities for the future more known to us, and increase human control over the future. Author Wendell Bell brings together futurist intellectual tools, describing and explaining not only the methods, but also the nature, concepts, theories, and exemplars of the field. Now available in paperback with a new preface from the author, Foundations of Future Studies is the fundamental work on the subject. Bell illustrates how this sphere of intellectual activity offers hope for the future of humanity and concrete ways of realizing that hope in the real world of everyday life. His book will appeal to all interested in futures studies, sociology, economics, political science, and history.


Teaching about the Future

Teaching about the Future

Author: P. Bishop

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-06-26

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1137020709

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The faculty at the University of Houston's program in Futures Studies share their comprehensive, integrated approach to preparing foresight professionals and assisting others doing foresight projects. Provides an essential guide to developing classes on the future or even establishing whole degree programs.


A Transformation Journey to Creative and Alternative Planetary Futures

A Transformation Journey to Creative and Alternative Planetary Futures

Author: Victor V. Motti

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2019-03-21

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1527531775

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This book presents a counter-trend against nationalism, religious extremism, xenophobia, and racism. It advocates an alternative globalization based not on trade, the economy, and politics, but on humanity’s transcendence to a collective consciousness. Inspired by a pantheist worldview, it applies an integral perspective toward strategic foresight and anticipation on the planetary scale. Controversial, disappearing, and emerging binary oppositions are explained within the framework of the mythology of the Lord of Wisdom versus the Ignorant Mind. It shows that our anticipatory planetary era might be characterized by the acknowledgement of our “zero knowledge”, as measured in the ocean of all disciplines; zero carbon for energy; zero war in politics and zero killing in society; zero conscious beings excluded; and zero existence (as we have known it), as humanity merges into some higher and enriched complexity.


Long-range Futures Research

Long-range Futures Research

Author: Robert H. Samet

Publisher: 4-Scene Development Corpora

Published: 2009-03-24

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1439214344

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This highly readable study explains how complexity science provides an evolutionary model for the civil system, with a new world view that out-ranges United Nations reference scenarios to beyond 2150.


Three Horizons

Three Horizons

Author: Bill Sharpe

Publisher: Triarchy Press

Published: 2020-06-16

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1911193872

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A practical framework for thinking about the future... and an exploration of 'future consciousness' and how to develop it