 Futuring: The Exploration of the Future
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Futu
ring: The Exploration of the Future
by Edward Cornish.
WFS. 2004. 313 pages. Paperback. ISBN 0-930242-61-0.
This comprehensive guide to the study of the future will give you a detailed look at the techniques futurists use, what we can know about the future and what we can't, and the role that forward-looking people can play in creating a better tomorrow. Used as a textbook for dozens of college courses! More information about Futuring.
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Building the Future: A Workbook to Accompany Futuring: The Exploration of the Future
by Jill Loukides and Lawrie Gardner
Anne Arundel Community College.
Preface by Arthur Shostak
WFS. 2006. 94 pages. Paperback. ISBN 0-930242-62-9.
Futurist educators Loukides and Gardner have developed this thought-inspiring workbook to guide students through the key lessons of Edward Cornish's text, Futuring.For each of the text's 16 chapters—which cover supertrends, the nature of change, futuring methods, uses of scenarios, the origins and rise of futurism, and much more—the workbook queries students on their prior knowledge and learning objectives; provides an outline, summary, and key terms; and prompts learners to evaluate their new knowledge about the future through critical thinking questions, activities, and self-study questions.
Building the Future $17.50, Members $15.95New Translations of Futuring: The Exploration of the Future
Arabic
ISBN: 978-9953-87-031-1
Translated by Dr. Hasan Charif
Published by Arab Scientific Publishing in Lebanon, Beirut.
Korean
ISBN: 89-89797-31-4
Published by Wisdom Publishing in Seoul with the help of Youngsook Park and the Korea Chapter of the World Future Society.
Mongolian
Translated and Published by Manlaibaatar Zagdbazar and the Mongolian Future Society in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolian.
Do you know of a publisher interested in producing a translation of FUTURING? Please contact WFS Business Manager Jeff Cornish, mailto:jcornish@wfs.org
Author Bio Bibliography Contents Glossary Methods Press Releases Reviewers' Comments Teaching the Future WFS Home Page Futuring
Cornish describes specific methods for anticipating future events so that readers can prepare to seize emerging opportunities and address growing challenges before they become unmanageable. Futuring can help readers make better decisions, develop worthwhile goals, and find the means to achieve them. Futuring is a powerful tool for achieving a better future.
Futuring also explains how serious thinking about the future has changed through the years, including the development of the idea of progress in the 17th century, the disillusionment with progress in the 20th century, and recent developments in thinking both creatively and practically about the future. Readers will learn how farsighted business trend watchers, military planners, and think-tank scholars now have a growing number of ways to think scientifically about the future so that leaders in government and business can prepare for opportunities and risks ahead. Cornish explains how these new methods are being used and how you too can use many of these methods in simplified but useful forms.
"The goal of futuring is not to predict the future but to improve it. We want to anticipate possible or likely future conditions so that we can prepare for them. We especially want to know about opportunities and risks that we should be ready for." — Edward Cornish
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