Futuring: The Exploration of the Future
Language: English
Published by World Future Society, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A., 2004
- Hardcover
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Seller: Village Books and Music, Medford, OR, U.S.A.Village Books and Music
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Dark blue hardback with silver print on spine. Minimal bumping to edges and corners of boards. Pages tight. Fairly extensive yellow and pink highlighting throughout book. This is done neatly and does not obscure the print, so the book is still readable and usable. 313+ pages. Only print info stated is Copyright 2004Blue and purple DJ is not price clipped ($29.95). Minor bumping along edges of DJ; minimal general shelf wear to DJ. "Good" condition of book due to highlighting, no other issues. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Title
- Futuring: The Exploration of the Future
- Author
- Cornish, Edward
- Publisher
- World Future Society, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0930242572
- ISBN 13
- 9780930242572
- Seller catalogs
- Business Related, Ethnic/Gender/Cultural Studies/Sociology
Since the future is hurtling toward us at breakneck speed, foresight is the great need of our times. We must think ahead if we are to cope with the hurricane-force changes now bashing at every aspect of our lives. This acceleration of change brings enormous opportunities as well as great dangers.
Most of us know better than to drive down a highway at eighty miles an hour without looking at the road ahead. But when it comes to steering our careers and businesses, we hardly ever consider whats coming toward us. We often wind up in a nasty "crash" that we could have avoided if we had better anticipated possible developments.
This is where futuring can help.
Futuring is the art and science of exploring the future. It offers methods and techniques that can help you understand trends, identify opportunities and avoid dangers. Futuring can help you understand possible future developments, make better decisions, develop worthwhile goals, and find the means to achieve them. Futuring is a powerful way to help you and your organization to create a better future.
Virtually anyone can benefit from learning the skills and perspectives of futuring:
* Businesspeople can anticipate profitable new markets and innovative products.
* Investors can be ready to get in on the ground floor of emerging industries and new technologies.
* Educators and parents can help ensure that young people are properly prepared for the new world theyll inherit.
* Students can plan out careers in highly rewarding professions.
* Concerned citizens and policy makers will find practical ways to help guide their communities and organizations to a successful future.
Futuring will open your eyes to the world of the future and how you can prepare for the opportunities and risks ahead. In addition, Futuring will guide you through the history of serious thinking about the future, including the development of the idea of progress in the seventeenth century to the disillusionment with progress that came in the twentieth century.
You will learn how far-sighted military planners, trend-watchers in business, and scholars in think tanks developed ways to think scientifically about the future so that leaders in government and business could prepare for the opportunities and risks ahead. Now you, too, can benefit from their discoveries.
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Village Books and Music
Medford, OR, U.S.A.
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Having owned a Brick and Mortar store located in Southern Oregon since 2004, I decided to retire in June 2023. I still have a large variety of soft and hard cover books to sell. Many out of print and hard to find books. I will continue to sell online for the next few years. The store is still open, so if you are ever in Medford, Oregon, check it out.
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