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CD-Rom: Knowledge Base of Future Studies, Vols 1 - 4
By Richard Slaughter, editor,

Just what is Future Studies? How can the future be studied before it has happened? Can the future be predicted? What practical applications does Futures Studies have? Who are futurists and what do they do? Why should we care for future generations? What insights on the early twenty-first century are available now? Dr. Richard Slaughter is a leading educator within the field of "Futures Studies." In 1996, he produced a three-volume set of readings for any one who wanted to have a systematic introduction to the study of the future. This CD-Rom takes Slaughter's landmark print volumes and adds a fourth by Dr. Sohail Inayatullah to provide a state-of-the-art international overview of Future Studies for students, teachers, consultants and entrepreneurs, indeed, anyone who is wishing to develop and apply a forward view to life, faith and society. Slaughter opens the Knowledge Base with a broad conceptual framework of what the next couple of decades will bring and why this will be a period of upheaval and transformation in terms of civilizational change. He pinpoints the defects in western industrial culture and shows why key areas of human experience, such as spirituality and emotional intelligence have been sidelined by the dominant powers. In view of environmental decline and technology's silence on questions of purpose and meaning, Slaughter establishes why we need to "design our way forward." He then turns the Knowledge Base over to some 50 leading voices in Futures Studies from an impressive variety of international cultures. In Volume one contributors share the historical and conceptual lineage of Futures Studies. It then proceeds to describe futures concepts, futures literature and futures epistemologies and methods. Volume two highlights futures organizations, practices and products, which tells us something about foresight in action. Volume three considers how the meaning and action we construct today impacts future generations. And Volume four offers one hundred "Views of Futurists" or first-person narratives on what has influenced their long-term view of life and how they do their futures work. This item has been specially ordered from Australia and is not widely available in the U.S.

Quantity 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 recently released a compendium of four previous books on CD-Rom, entitled: Toward a Wise Culture: Four Classics Futures Texts (2005). He also has released a revised, updated "professional" version of The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies on CD-ROM (2005). For more, see Foresight International.

Price: $49.99 and 3.50 S & H to U.S. addresses. format CD-ROM, 50 megabytes (Foresight International, 2001, Millennium Edition) Contents Volume 1 Foundations Part 1: Origins Twentieth Century Futures Thinking: From Amateurs to Experts. Ian Clarke The Thirst for Certainty: Futures Studies in Europe and the United States. Peter Moll An Overview of Futures Studies. Wendell Bell H. G. Wells and the Genesis of Future Studies. W. Warren Wagar Part 2: Futures Concepts and Metaphors Developing a Metaphorical Language for Futures. Tony Judge International Futures Perspectives and Cultural Concepts of the Future. Eleonora Masini Futures Concepts. Richard Slaughter Part 3: The Futures Literature 55 Key Works: A Guide to Futures Literature. Kjell Dahle Fiction and the Future. Edward James and Farah Mendelsohn Cultural Trends, Troubles and Transformations. Michael Marien Other Future Studies: A Bibliographic Essay. Merryl Wyn Davies Part 4: The Foundations of Futures Studies Knowledge for our Future: Seven Priorities. Allen Tough Methods and Epistemologies in Futures Studies. Sohail Inayatullah Scenario Planning, Critical Theory and the Role of Hope. James Ogilvy Other Futures: Non-Western Cultures in Futures Studies. Zia Sardar Volume 2: Organisations, Practices, Products Part 1: Futures Organisations The Futuribles Group. Hughes de Jouvenel The World Future Society. Howard Didsbury The World Futures Studies Federation. Tony Stevenson The Future Generations Alliance Foundation. Katsuhiko Yazaki The Futures Research Department, BUES. G Kovacs and E Novaky Part 2: Futures Methods and Tools An Overview of Futures Methods. Joseph Coates Planning and Implementing Futures Studies. Martha Garrett The Prospective Approach: Contingent and Necessary Evolution. Fabrice Roubelat World 2000: An International Planning Dialogue. William E. Halal Global Models, Data Bases and Geographic Information Systems. Sam Cole Causal Layered Analysis: Post-structuralism as Method. Sohail Inayatullah From Future Workshops to Envisioning Alternate Futures. Jim Dator The Visioning Method. Clem Bezold The Spiritual Foundations of Envisioning the Future. Warren Ziegler Part 3: Images and Imaging Processes Young Peoples' Hopes and Fears for the Future. David Hicks Tech Noir Cinema and the Techno-fear Future. Ken Wark The Challenge of Imaging Peace in Wartime. Elise Boulding Part 4: Social Innovations and Futures What Future Generations Need From Us. Allen Tough Citizen Juries and Future Generations. Bruce Tonn Experiments in Social Change: the UNDP African futures Program. Olugbenga Adesida Social Innovation Strategies for Sustainability. Hazel Henderson Volume 3: Directions and Outlooks Part 1: New Directions in Futures Thinking Towards Female Futures Studies. Vuokko Jarva Towards a Knowledge Base for Feminist Futures Research. Ivana Milojevic The Interdisciplinary Construction of the Futures Field. Qin Linzheng Coherence, Chaos and Alternative Futures. Mika Mannermaa Transcending Flatland: Richard Slaughter Futures Study for Contemplation and Action. Yehezkel Dror Toward a Futurist Code of Ethics. Wendell Bell The Weight of History and the Pull of the Future: the Contribution of Macrohistory to the Study of the Future. Sohail Inayatullah Part 2: The Outlook for the New Millennium Three Scenarios for the Human Future. Ervin Laszlo Shamans, Savages and the Wilderness. Ashis Nandy Prospects for Waging Peace in the 21st Century. Keith Suter Cultural Diversity: Our Key to Survival in the Future. Mahdi Elmandjra Envisaging a Sustainable Society. Lester Milbrath Values for the 21st Century. Charles Birch The Idea of Progress and the Futures of Africa. Godwin Sogolo Traversing Future Technologies Using Ancient Buddist Concepts. S Goonatilake Part 3: The Long View The Most Significant Events of the Next Thousand Years. Herbert Gerjuoy The Challenge of Planetary Civilisation. Duane Elgin Volume 4: The Views of Futurists Authors by name-- A -- Z. Futures for Sustainable Development: Olugbenga Adesida David versus Goliath: Nicholas Albery Alternatives to World Capitalism: Samir Amin Evolution and Our Selves: Walter Truett Anderson Development and Communication of Forecasting Methods: J. Scott Armstrong Futuristics and Strategic Futurisation: Ikram Azam Becoming a Futurist: a Never-Ending Story, a Commitment: Enric Bas Systemic Development for Better Futures: Richard Bawden Creating Wiser Futures: Clement Bezold The Cultures and Futures of Peace: Elise Boulding Educating Beyond the Margins: Marcus Bussey Three Decades of Futures Studies at Tamkang University: Clement C. P. Chang Making Futures Productive in the Courts and in Education: Lester E. Cingcade The Future is Our Business: Joseph F. Coates Futures Free Fall: A Modeller's Tale: Sam Cole Futures Watching: Jennifer Coote Futurists Embedded in the Past: Ron Crocombe Futures Are Multicultural: Linda Crowl We Do Have Alternatives!: Kjell Dahle Hope for the 22nd Century: Jim Dator Critical Policy Choices: Yehezkel Dror Creating Partnership Futures: Riane Eisler Hoping Good Futures: Jennifer Fitzgerald Small Futures: Ted Fuller Peace, Vision and the Future: Johan Galtung A Constructive Rebellion: Fabienne Goux-Baudiment National Futures Studies: Martha J. Garrett Becoming a Conspiritor of the Future: Michel Godet Towards a Post-European, Post-Enlightenmnent Future: Susantha Goonatilake Future Tense: What’s New: Theodore Jay Gordon Futures Research and Systems Thinking in Switzerland: Hans Georg Graf On a Journey to Deeper Truths and Realities: Linda Groff Toward a Latin American Reconstruction of Images of the Future: Maria de Los Angeles Guido The Life Cycle of Evolution, Emerging Technologies and the New Capitalism: William E. Halal The Missing Link: Bernd Hamm Feminism and Futures: High Tech Fantasies: Wendy Harcourt Transforming Economics: Hazel Henderson Educating for Sustainable Futures: David Hicks From Planning to Foresight: Éva Hideg Conscious Evolution: Barbara Marx Hubbard Future Generations, Education and Alternatives to Violence: Francis P. Hutchinson Facing Reality Even If It Bites: Samar Ihsan Macrohistory and Layers of Reality: Sohail Inayatullah From a Culture of Pluralism to the Culture of Unity in Diversity: Partow Izadi Female Societal Futures: Vuokko Jarva Spinning Straw into Gold: Anne Jenkins Inside the Future: 20 Years at the World Future Society: Lane Jennings Professing on the Hinge of History: Christopher B. Jones Creating Richer Metaphors: Anthony John Judge Information, Communication and Tele-Democracy: Auli Keskinen Fighting for the Future: Vinay Lal Sowing the Seeds: Trudi Lang Meaning and Self-Organisation in our Collective Journey: Ervin Laszlo Developing Academic and Professional Rigour in Futures Studies: Sam Lehman-Wilzig Teaching Futures Studies in Taiwan: Jyh-Horng Lin Multiple Perspectives: Harold A. Linstone Putting the World to Right: Bruce Lloyd The History and Future of Wrong Ideas: Rosaleen Love Moral Sensitivity: David Loye Towards a Re-enchantment of the World: Marc Luyckx The Topsoil of Hope: Anandhavalli Mahadevan Pointing the Way to a Spiritual Future: Dada Maheshvarananda New Tools and Knowledge for Sustainable Development: Mika Mannermaa Global Consciousness: An Alternative Future of Choice: Oliver W. Markley Secretly Working for Better Futures: Felix Marti Exploring the Corporate Culture Gap: Jan Lee Martin Invisible Made Visible: Eleonora Barbieri Masini Developing Futures in Higher Education: Graham May Pragmatic Futures Studies: David Mercer Why the Future Belongs to Converging Futures: Peter H. Mettler From Farm Boy to Futurist: Lester W. Milbrath Journey to Feminist Futures: Ivana Milojevic Forty Year Effort To Ascertain How Public Policy Evolves: Graham T.T. Molitor A Profound Transformation: Paulo C Moura Dissenting Futures: Ashis Nandy Gender, Education and Healing: Patricia Nicholson Futures Research in Hungary: Erzsebet Novaky Crafting in a Reflective Circle: Victoria M. Razak Human Needs Define the Future: Dusan Ristic Futures Studies As a Craft: James Robertson The Future is Bleak: John Robinson Futures Weaver: Martha Rogers Truth and Beauty: Anita Rubin Visioning a Tender Revolution: Ana Maria Sandi Creating Multi-Civilisational Futures: Ziauddin Sardar Something Cool to Do: Jordi Serra Education as the Key: Satish Seth Futures Beyond Dystopia: Richard A. Slaughter Critical Realism, Local Economies and Participatory Futures: Alan Southern Measuring and Making the Future: Philip Spies Looking into the Seeds of Time: Bart Van Steenbergen Futures activism: Giving meaning to the Present: Tony Stevenson Transforming Japan Through Think-Tanks: Takahiro Suzuki Mystic Journey: J.J. Edward Thuraisingham Connectedness With Future Generations: Allen Tough To That City Beautiful: S. P. Udayakumar Interrogating a Desperate Future: The Crowded Agenda of a Third World Futurist: Chris Okechukwu Uroh A Mosaic Future: Cesar Villanueva The Community of Earth: W. Warren Wagar Futures Between Communitas and Corporata: Paul Wildman Three Generations of Russian Forecasters: Yuri Yakovets Building a MuRatopian Future: Kaoru Yamaguchi Liberated and Overwhelmed: Majanja Zaalye'mbikke

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