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Concerning Forecasts, Trends, and Ideas about the Future
Future Survey Big Picture Mini-Guides
Future Survey Mini Guides bring together the best thinking on a topic in a single concise report. New Mini-Guides are included with your subscription. Recently published
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Future Survey Your Monthly Scanning Service
What's changing? Where are we headed? What are the actual and
possible impacts--both positive and negative--of new technologies? What visions should we
pursue for ourselves, our communities, our work organizations, and our society?
Future Survey is the authoritative monthly guide to
the literature of social change, new technologies, futures studies, policy-making,
environmental studies, organizational renewal, and related cross-disciplinary fields.
Published monthly since 1979 by the World Future Society, Future
Survey provides user-friendly abstracts of new books, articles, and reports on
topics that may have a major impact on our future. It points to the cutting-edge thinking
of social critics, think-tank analysts, academic experts, and visionaries--a unique
nonpartisan generalist scanning service prepared for a variety of people who seek to keep
up with our turbulent world.
IMPORTANT FEATURES
- Clustered Mini-Reviews. Future Survey
goes far beyond dull and uninformative database citations, offering concise,
nontechnical abstracts of recently published literature. Key ideas are arranged in topical
clusters that enable you to see connections, contrasts, and clashing opinions.
- All of Today's Transformations. Many important
changes are now taking place. Future Survey covers all of them: the
information-technology revolution, environmental issues and the quest for sustainability,
new political directions in a post-Cold War world, opportunities and problems in the
emerging global economy, health issues, the changing workplace, education reform, renewing
cities, human rights, AIDS policy, and much more--also, coverage of a wide variety of
methods to think about alternative futures and shape your preferred future.
- Broad coverage. Selections are made from more than
a hundred book publishers, a score of research institutes, leading newspapers, and dozens
of key magazines and scholarly journals. Future Survey covers significant
thinking in well-known media such as The New York Times , Foreign Affairs,
and Wired, as well as lesser-known periodicals such as Vital Speeches, Futures,
and Futures Research Quarterly.
- Highlights and Comments. Noteworthy individual
items in each 20-page monthly issue are selected as "Highlights," and clusters
of significant ideas are identified and summarized in "Connections." The editor
adds brief critical comments to many items (many readers consider this as the best feature
in Future Survey).
- Experienced Judgment. Sifting through the maze of
futures-relevant information is no job for amateurs--or for software agents (at least to
date). The widely respected founding editor, Dr. Michael Marien, has more than 20 years of
experience in identifying and interpreting the subtleties of futures-relevant literature,
and he is uniquely positioned to address the mounting infoglut and tell you what's new,
what's good, and what's significant.
Future Survey is offered at a modest price of $109 per
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