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What is Future Studies What are the theories and methods underlying the field What are its basic concepts, and how is it related to other academic fields Why does Future Studies still struggle for institutional acceptance These are the questions addressed in this work.

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Alternative phrases abound--collaborative work, computer supported cooperative work, simultaneous/concurrent engineering, multimedia real-time interactive work--but the neatest, shortest, and simplest catch-all term was coined in 1978: groupware.

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The future is the last frontier where nonwestern societies are still freefree to envision desirable futures based on their own worldviews, cultures, and traditions.

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Many different groups have many different opinions on what should be done to remedy various problems. This work argues that "though all are partly in the right, yet all are wholly wrong!" It emphasises the importance of understanding human scale and empowering local communities as a way forward.

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This book represents the first calm, detailed, and rational description of the imminent end of western industrial civilization as we know it.

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Yet Wells was already convinced that if only thinking people across the planet could somehow pull together and pool their expertise, energy, and insights into sort of cerebrum for humanity, then the world would be a saner, safer, better, fairer place.