This CD-ROM makes available four key futures texts by Dr. Richard Slaughter, along with book reviews and interpretive essays:

Trace the threads of foresight, wisdom and cultural transformation in the creation of a sustainable society through these four books by Dr. Richard Slaughter, a leading social futurist from Australia. Recovering the Future sets out foundational themes: education, the futures field, cultural criticism and worldview issues. The Foresight Principle views these themes through a prism of cultural recovery, institutional foresight and nurturing a forward view. Next, Futures for the Third Millennium provides critical futures frameworks, containing depeth and breadth. Finally, Futures Beyond Dystopia, critiques pop future work and illustrates how "integral approaches that 'transcend and include' dynamics can renew interdisciplinary problem-solving. Towards a Wise Culture CD-Rom is a definitive library for students of futures studies who are aiming to cultivate a fluency with futures concepts, rather than just gain an empirical introduction futures research methods.

This item has been specially ordered from Australia and is not widely available in the U.S.

About the Author: Dr. Richard Slaughter is the president of Foresight International, in Brisbane, Australia. He is a futurist of international standing with a PhD in Futures Studies. He is the author and/or editor of 16 books and has written numerous articles and papers on futures themes and methodologies. He has long-standing professional links with prominent international institutions, organizations and research bodies. His most recent work was founding the Australian Foresight Institute (AFI) and through 2005, will serve as President of the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF). He has recently released a revised, updated "professional" version of The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies on CD-ROM (2005). For more, see Foresight International.

"Toward a Wise Culture" CD-Rom contains the electronic text of four books:   

format CD-ROM, 16 megabytes (Foresight International, 2005); ISBN: 0-9757354-1-1

Contents

Introduction to the CD-Rom
Overviews--Essays on Richard Slaughter and Interviews
Glossary

Recovering the Future, 1988
General Introduction
An Outline of Critical Futures Study
The Transformative Cycle: a Tool for Illuminating Change
The Machine at the Heart of the World
Future Vision in the Nuclear Age
Metafiction, Transcendence and the Extended Present
Cultural Reconstruction in the Post-Modern World
An Introduction to Futures in Education
Futures in Education: A Human Agenda
Critical Futures Study – A Dimension of Curriculum Work
The Case of RMIT (the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)
Delicate Immortal Meanings
Author’s Reflections on Recovering the Future

The Foresight Principle, 1995
Foreword: Hazel Henderson
Part 1: Establishing the Context: Looking Beyond the Industrial Worldview
1. Looking Back
2. Looking Around
3. Looking Forward
Part 2: Applying and Extending the Foresight Principle
4. How Foresight is Already Understood and Used
5. How Foresight Improves Our Institutions
6. Extending Foresight Through Analysis, Imagination and Social Imaging
7. Why We Need Institutions of Foresight
Part 3: Cultural Recovery in the 21st Century
8. Creating Positive Views of Futures With Young People
9. Cultural Reconstruction in the Post-Modern World
10. Towards a Wise Culture
Conclusion: The Promise of the 21st Century
Supplemental: Reviews of The Foresight Principle

Futures for the Third Millennium, 1999
Foreword: Richard Bawden
Part 1: Futures Studies as Disciplined Enquiry
Long Term Thinking and the Politics of Reconceptualisation
The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies as an Evolving Process
Part 2: Context and Critique
Origins of a Defective Worldview
Changing Images of Futures in the 20th Century
Part 3: Futures in Education
What is Futures Education?
Supporting Proactive School Leadership
The Machine at the Heart of the World
Creating Positive Views of Futures with Young People
Critical Futures Study as an Educational Strategy
Part 4: Foresight Institutions and Practices
Foresight Beyond Strategy
Australia's Commission for the Future: Learning from a Social Innovation
Reinventing the Future: Foresight and the Rise of Nanotechnology
A National Foresight Strategy for Australia
Part 5: Critical Futures Methods
An Outline of Critical Futures Studies
The Transformative Cycle: A Tool for Negotiating Change
Mapping the Future
Environmental Scanning and the Futurescan Method
Looking for the Real Megatrends
Developing and Applying Strategic Foresight
Part 6: Beyond the High-Tech Wonderland
Futures Study: from Individual to Social Capacity
Future Vision in the Nuclear Age
Transcending Flatland
Conclusion
Supplemental: Reviews of Futures for the Third Millennium

Futures Beyond Dystopia, 2004
Foreword by Ken Wilber
Introduction and Acknowledgements
Part 1: Aspects of Futures Enquiry
A Twenty First Century Agenda
Are There Futures Beyond Dystopia?
Professional Standards in Futures Work
Part 2: The Case Against Hegemony
Three Pop Futurist Texts
Perils of Breadth American Style
Part 3: Expanding and Deepening a Futures Frame
Beyond the Mundane
Changing Methods and Approaches in Futures Studies
Part 4: Futures Studies and the Integral Agenda
Transcending Flatland
A New Framework for Environmental Scanning
Knowledge Creation, Futures Methods and the Integral Agenda
Towards Integral Futures
Part 5: Social Learning Through Applied Foresight
Futures Studies to Social Foresight
Emergence of Futures into the Educational Mainstream
Creating and Sustaining Second Generation Institutions of Foresight
Foresight in a Social Context
Part 6: Strategies and Outlooks
A 'Great Transition' or Many?
Futures Studies as a Civilisational Catalyst
Conclusion: The Dialectic of Foresight and Experience
Supplemental: Reviews of Futures Beyond Dystopia