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Author: | Masini, E. B. |
Title: | The future of futures studies : A European view. |
Journal: | Futures
1989 : APR, VOL. 21:2, p. 152-160 |
Index terms: | FUTURE STUDIES EUROPE TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE DEMOGRAPHY |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | In Europe futures studies had an important initial impetus, from an epistemological and philosophical point of view. This has had an influence both on the field of futures studies and on its major perspectives. This has been challenged by history but, at the same time, emphasis has been placed on the normative approach. In viewing the future of futures studies, a specific European perspective emerges, even within the similar areas of interest shared with the United States work but also because of the distinctive historical process of Europe. Futures studies will continue to challenge a linear perspective of the future and to be more an instrument for clarification of goals and objectives. |
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