| Description |
xxvi, 444 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The ancient oracles still speak : recasting forecasting for the 21st century / Barton Kunstler -- Worldwide wipeout : the greatest publishing story never told, jihad, and the unintended consequences of the Internet's killer app / Seth Kaufman -- Toward an anthropology of the future / Alexandra Chciuk-Celt -- Technological evolution / Jose Luis Cordeiro -- The evolution and future direction of marriage / Tom Lombardo and Jeanne Belisle Lombardo -- Through new eyes : transcending culture-based assumptions / Dave Stein -- The quadrate : a paradigm for conflicting civilizations and global futures / Jitendra G. Borpujari -- Seeing newly, differently, and futuristically with scenarios / Irving H. Buchen -- Backcasting from the future : predict the future by creating it / Don Mizaur -- Forecasting the next industrial revolution : a structural perspective from evolutionary economics / Denis L. Balaguer -- Macrotechnology analysis / Paul Crabtree -- The failure of strategic planning : and corporate performance / Romulo Werran Gayoso -- Visionary concept : combining scenario methodology with concept development / Sami Leppimaki, ... [et al.] -- A scientific approach to collaborative innovation and strategic foresight : connecting the "dots" outside the "box" / Howard S. Rasheed -- The globalization of crime / Stephen Aguilar-Millan, ... [et al.] -- Seeing the future through the lens of telegeography : looking at new ways to address global warming, clean energy, and the 9/11 attacks / Joseph N. Pelton and Christine Robinson -- Viewing economics through the prism of sustainable development and self-sufficiency / Bruce E. Tonn -- Faster, larger, riskier : investing in the future global stock exchange / Joan E. Foltz -- In praise of academic disengagement / Michael Bugeja -- The future is all around us / Clifton Anderson -- Leadership as legacy work / Les Wallace and James Trinka -- High schools of the future : "boot camp" / Arthur Shostak -- Paid volunteerism : is there an oxymoron in our future? / Jay Herson -- Expansion for the good of humanity / Francis R. Stabler. |
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Forecasting -- Congresses.
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Social prediction -- Congresses.
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Globalization -- Forecasting -- Congresses.
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Economic forecasting -- Congresses.
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Technological innovations -- Forecasting -- Congresses.
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Social institutions -- Forecasting -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Wagner, Cynthia G.
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World Future Society.
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| ISBN |
0930242653 (pbk.) |
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9780930242657 (pbk.) |
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