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What I Have Learned Thinking About the Future Then and Now
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Edited by Michael Marien and Lane Jennings
ISBN: 0-313-25071-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-25071-2
219 pages, bibliog.
Greenwood Press
Publication: 2/17/1987
List Price: $87.95 (UK Sterling Price: £49.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Description: This unique collection of thoughtful and provocative essays brings together the personal retrospectives of seventeen of the most prominent American futurists. Their reflections on how the reality of the 1980s differs from what was anticipated, and what has been learned about social and technological change will provide important reading for futurists and planners who must confront a constantly changing horizon.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction by Michael Marien and Lane Jennings
  • Part I: Updates and Revisions
  • The Next Three Futures by W. Warren Wagar
  • The Meaning of the Twenty-First Century: Reexamining the Great Transition by Kenneth E. Boulding
  • How I Learned to Love the Future by Willis W. Harman
  • The Future: Not Quite So Easy as It Looked by Victor Ferkiss
  • From Fixed to Fluid Identity by Irene Tavis Thomson
  • Reproductive Futures: 1964, 1984, and Beyond by Robert T. Francoeur
  • Part II: Lessons Learned
  • The Futurist Tells Stories by Donald N. Michael
  • Hawaii 2000, the World Futures Studies Federation and Me: Thinking Locally and Acting Globally by Jim Dator
  • Nine Ways for Coping with Future Angst: What I Learned by Amitai Etzioni
  • Futures in Politics and the Politics of Futures by Walter A. Hahn
  • Twenty Years in the Future by Joseph F. Coates
  • Lessons Learned From Futures Research by Vary T. Coates
  • The Gods of the Copybook Headings: A Caution to Forecasters by Joseph P. Martino
  • What I Have Learned: The Need for Multiple Perspectives by Harold A. Linstone
  • Part III: Reflections on Learning
  • Adventures in Learning by Bertram Gross and Kusum Singh
  • Pecos River Meditation by Hazel Henderson
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Contributors
LC Card Number: 86-14958
LCC Class: CB158
Dewey Class: 303.4
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