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Some Thoughts on Creating the Future *
Author(s) -
HUBER BETTINA J.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
sociological inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1475-682X
pISSN - 0038-0245
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-682x.1974.tb00720.x
Subject(s) - coping (psychology) , element (criminal law) , sociology , computer science , management science , epistemology , operations research , risk analysis (engineering) , psychology , political science , economics , engineering , business , law , philosophy , psychiatry
Most futurologists seem to assume that the best way of coping with the future is to perfect methodologies of prediction, but the ability to forecast accurately may not be the crucial element in dealing effectively with the future. Rather, trying to create the future might be far more fruitful, a possibility this paper explores in some detail.