Foresight: Volume 9 Issue 2

The future revisited: an application of lessons learned from past futures – the socio‐cultural domain and innovation policy in The Netherlands

Patrick van der Duin, Ida Sabelis

This paper seeks to evaluate future studies in order to improve futures research.

Assessing future disorders in organizations: implications for diagnosing and treating schizophrenic, depressed or paranoid organizations

Jan Oliver Schwarz

The aim of this paper is to highlight the relevance of the inner future of an organization for diagnosing and treating organizational disorders, as it relates to the…

Energy forecasts using a “Roundless” approach to running a Delphi study

Theodore J. Gordon

Conventional Delphi studies use sequential questionnaires and produce rich information synthesized from the judgments of the experts who participate. However such studies…

What if? Alternative histories and their future implications

Jacques Richardson

The purpose of this paper is to describe and explains the development of the evolving mental phenomenon of alternative history.

Shining light on the dark side of ambient intelligence

David Wright, Serge Gutwirth, Michael Friedewald

To identify safeguards against threats and vulnerabilities posed by the emerging world of ambient intelligence.

Histoire secrète de la Ve république (Secret History of the Fifth Republic)

Jacques Richardson

The Centre for Future Studies