Futurists Global Orientation and Socio-Technical Views
-- a university of arizona course on methods and approaches for studying the future

Read this as a graph, with Global/US on the x axis and Socio-political/technological on the y axis.


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Theobald
Bell
Boulding Marien
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Amara
Schwartz
Technological

Go to index on time horizon and relative optimism.

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.


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Prepared by Roger L. Caldwell