The Future: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Futures are multiple, contested and complex. In
John Urry • What is the Future?
Given everything humanity has accomplished, all of it driven by leaps of the imagination, why is envisioning a safer, saner, happier, more peaceful path forward so consistently beyond our reach? Indeed, why does it seem increasingly beyond our reach?
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Individuals can exert influence over the future but they exist in larger fields that condition their choices: epistemological, ontological, economic and cultural or class, gender, varna, civilization type, dynasty, cultural personality or ways of knowing the real. Futurists, in general, tend to focus on the individual’s ability to create the future... See more
Macrohistory and the Future (1998) – Metafuture: Futures Studies by Sohail Inayatullah and Ivana Milojević
