Foresight: Volume 2 Issue 3
Strapline:
The journal of future studies, strategic thinking and policyTable of contents
Managing the future
Sesh VelamoorThis article argues that managing the future requires an overhauling of existing paradigms of management thinking given the new context of human affairs. This context is…
From agriculture to ecoculture
Michel GodetThis article considers the European agricultural battlefield where farmers face the problem of new challenges to the environment and food safety which only add to the problems of…
The debate over genetically modified organisms: scientific uncertainty and public controversy
Linda HadfieldThe controversy over genetically modified organisms in the UK came to a head with the publication of three official reports in May 1999. A review of the three reports leads to the…
The e‐factor: the new rules of the tele‐economy
Simon ForgeOverall, public and private interactive networks could be a more powerful force for change than the computer, the railway, or the small electric motor, forming a “teleeconomy”…
The cyborg, the ideology chip and the guru programme: the implications of cyborg technologies for the development of human consciousness
Charles D. LaughlinThere has been little thought given in science to the impact of direct brain‐machine interfacing upon the future development of human consciousness. Even less thought has been…
A sustainable future for the Czech Republic: transition and human values
Pavel NovacekThis article summarizes the main findings of the study entitled Strategy for Sustainable Development of the Czech Republic. Using the methodology of National 21st Century Studies…
Emerging economic sectors in the third millennium: introduction and overview of the “big five”
Graham T.T. MolitorThis introductory article, the first in a series of six, will describe the impending waves of economic activity projected to dominate the advanced economies over the course of the…
The formal economy and the real world
Matko MeštrovićThis article reports a wide range of complementary or antinomic insights into the multi‐layered globalizing process, in an attempt to understand its causes and significance…
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1463-6689Online date, start – end:
1999Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Prof Ozcan Saritas