Making Sense of the Future

• Auteur principal: Szostak, Rick (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Taylor & Francis 2022
• Sujets: Social forecasting, future studies; Historiography; General & world history; democracy; desirable futures; environment; future studies; institutions; interdisciplinarity; intersiciplinary studies; plausible futures; systems; values; wildcards
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Résumé

Making Sense of the Future integrates the latest thinking in Future Studies with the author's expertise in world history, economics, interdisciplinary studies, knowledge organization, and political activism. The book takes a systems approach that recognizes the complexity of our world. It begins by suggesting a set of goals for human societies and identifying innovative strategies for achieving these goals that could gain broad support. Each chapter begins with a "How to" section that discusses how we can identify goals, strategies, trends, surprises, or implementation strategies and concludes with an integrative analysis that draws connections across the preceding discussions. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, Szostak explores key trends and how these interact so that he can develop strategies to guide trends towards desirable futures. He discusses the ways in which we can best prepare for surprises such as epidemics and natural disasters, enabling us to react to them in beneficial ways. Supported by a list of guiding questions and suggestions for class projects, this is an accessible textbook for students of Future Studies and Future Studies courses.

Description matérielle

1 electronic resource (206 p.)

ISBN

9781003186854
9781000465600
9781032033488
9781032033501

Accès

Open Access