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Futures Studies is generally misunderstood from two perspectives. On the one hand, there are those who believe it is, or pretends to be, a predictive science which, if properly applied, strives to foretell with reasonable accuracy what THE future WILL BE.
“Foreword” To Richard Slaughter, ed., The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies, (3 Vols.) Hawthorn, Australia: DDM Media Group, 1996
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Dator, J. (2019). What Futures Studies Is, and Is Not. In: Jim Dator: A Noticer in Time. Anticipation Science, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17387-6_1
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