Keys to the 21st century /
edited by Jérôme Bindé ; with a preface by Koïchiro Matsuura.
- New York : Paris : Berghahn Books ; UNESCO, 2001.
- xvi, 395 p. ; 24 cm.
Material type: Specialized agencies (incl. GATT and IAEA) material.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 390-395).
Preface / Koichiro Matsuura -- Introduction / Jerome Binde -- Foresight and Uncertainty: What Future for the Future? -- A Plurality of Futures? -- The Arrow of Time and the End of Certainty / Ilya Prigogine -- What Future for the Future? -- The Nature of the Future / Hugues de Jouvenel -- The Rehabilitation of Futurology / Colin Blackman -- An African Fable / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- An Ethno-technological Analysis of the Interactions between Technology and Society / Thierry Gaudin -- Inventing the Future / Pentti Malaska -- Futurology in Action / Eleonora Masini Barbieri -- The Future in Brief ... / Peter Mettler -- The Determinants of Futurology / Jesus Moneo -- The End of Francis Bacon's Programme? / Francisco Sagasti -- Futurology and Global Dialogue / Tony Stevenson -- Futurology: A Self-Criticism / Kimon Valaskakis -- The Future of the Species and the Future of the Planet: Towards a Natural Contract? -- What Future for the Human Species? -- Stephen Jay Gould -- Edgar Morin -- Population: From Explosion to Implosion? -- Population and Migration Patterns in the Twenty-First Century / Herve Le Bras -- Forecasting the Ageing of Populations: China and International Comparisons / Zeng Yi -- Biotechnologies: Towards a Brave New World? -- Axel Kahn -- M.G.K. Menon -- Jeremy Rifkin -- What Will We Suffer from in the Twenty-First Century? -- Luc Montagnier -- David Heymann -- Chemical Pollution and Invisible Pollution -- Chemical Pollution and Invisible Pollution: Prospects and Possible Responses / Mohamed Larbi Bouguerra.
Are we prepared for the 21st century? There is room for doubt. The future seems increasingly uncertain, hard to decipher, ambiguous in its very indeterminism, sometime frankly illegible. If it is impossible to predict the future, one can at least help to shape it.
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