Futures Tools and techniques Richard A. Slaughter. Melbourne: Futures Study Centre and DDM Media Group, 1995, 194 pp. (includes Glossary of Futures Terms) As a teacher with a commitment to learning that helps children and adults to engage positively with present crises and plan responses to future needs, I was very pleased to find Richard Slaughter’s…
Futures Studies: Crystal Ball Gazing or Disciplined Scholarship?Michael Green, Australian National University Richard A. Slaughter, Futures for the Third Millennium: Enabling the Forward View, Prospect Media, 1999, (381pp). ISBN 1 86316 148 1 (paperback) RRP $40.00. Richard A. Slaughter (ed.), Gone Today, Here Tomorrow: Millennium Previews, Richmond Ventures, 2000, (145pp). ISBN 1 8631 6122 8…
Futures for the Third Millennium: Enabling the Forward View. Richard A. Slaughter. St. Leonards, NSW, Australia: Prospect Media, June 1999, 381pp Michael Marien, Future Survey, World Future Society, MD, USA There remains a vast disjuncture between the needs of all societies for commitments to meaningful purposes and goals, and the so-far minimal investment in creating…
Futures for the Third Millennium: Enabling the Forward View R.A. Slaughter, Sydney, Prospect Media, 1999, 381pp Reviewed by Marcus Bussey Richard A. Slaughter’s new book, Futures for the Third Millennium: Enabling the Forward View, comes both as a summing up of the current state of play for the broad field of futures studies and as…
Futures for the Third Millennium: enabling the forward view Richard A Slaughter, Prospect Media, Sydney, 1999, 381 pp. + x Reviewed by Richard Bawden It is always a pleasure to review anything written by Richard Slaughter, as he is one of but few voices in this country to write both clearly and critically about the…
This page contains a variety of images and graphics that have been used to illustrate various aspects of the four quadrant model and some of the many ways it has been applied. It begins with one that was used on the home page of the previous Foresight International website. Upper Left (Intentional) The unique inner…
The Biggest Wake-up Call in History. There has been a plethora of new books investigating different approaches to global problems. Richard Slaughter has, I think, written a particularly significant addition which focuses much more on internal, psychological and cultural ways of recognising and overcoming the serious problems ahead, while still addressing, in considerable detail, the…
The Biggest Wake-Up Call in History Suppose that you are watching a foreign language movie with subtitles in your mother tongue. You tend to trust the translator while making sense of the scenario. All of a sudden a professional independent interpreter comes and makes you aware that the series of pictures that are passing before…
Time is Running Out to Save Planet Earth. Review of The Biggest Wake-Up Call in History In the days of the U.S.-Soviet Cold War, people lived in fear of a hypothetical nuclear world war that would obliterate human civilization. Today, civilization’s end is no longer hypothetical: It’s a certainty unless we restructure how we as a…
The Biggest Wake-Up Call in History The human race is challenged as never before. We are in the middle of a planetary emergency with ‘no simple solutions, no easy exits’. The only way forward is to deal with it otherwise our children will be condemned to a diminished and unliveable world. We have precious little…