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The Next Three Futures: Paradigms of Things to Come (Adamantine Studies on the 21st Century)
  
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by Edward Cornish (Foreword), W.Warren Wagar (Author)
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The organizing theme of this work is the way in which images of alternative futures are shaped by ideological differences in the present. Wagar identifies three principal camps of futurist thought: "technoliberals," "radicals," and "counterculturalists." By far the largest group are the technoliberals - supporters of parliamentary democracy, civil liberties, free enterprise and technological progress. Radicals occupy the Marxist and democratic-socialist Left, while counterculturalists espouse decentralist, eco-pacifist and "New Age" values. "The Next Three Futures" pulls together all aspects of futures studies - comprising an outline of the many worlds of futurist inquiry. The book consists of two parts: the first an examination of how futurists think and work; the second a comparative and critical analysis of their ideas on a wide variety of topics. After a short prologue, the first chapter defines the scope and limitations of futures research, and discusses its chief methodologies. The next chapter gives an intellectual history of futurism from its earliest origins, with special emphasis on the work of H.G. Wells. The idea of the ideological paradigm in futures studies is described in the third chapter. The following four chapters, making up part twok investigate the thinking of contemporary futurists on the environment, economic and political developments, war and peace, and societal/cultural issues. Wagar's epilogue considers the possibility that the technoliberal, radical and countercultural futures may all lie ahead for humankind, but at different stages and times in the years to come. This volume should be of interest to students of futurism, futurists, political scientists, sociologists, economic forecasters, environmentalists, and anyone else fascinated by the study of the future.

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