Futurist's Time Horizon and General Outlook
-- a university of arizona course on methods and approaches for studying the future

Read this as a graph, with Now/Future on the x axis and Optimist/Pessimist on the y axis)

Optimist
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Ogilvy Clarke
Drucker
Amara
Nowl <-------------------------------------------------------------------> Future.
Theobald |
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Bell
Marien
Pessimist

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Note: a primary reference for much of this material is Coates, Joseph and Jennifer Jarratt. What Futurists Believe, A World Future Society Book, Published by Lamond in 1989. 340 pages.

Thinkers Index

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Prepared by Roger L. Caldwell