... form of very long‐term participative strategic planning. It is impossible to directly link the increasing uncertainties in the global environment and the spread of foresight. However, it is possible to compare the history of foresight in relation to the history of globalization through several main...

...Patrick van der Duin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how Dutch society is dealing with its history and why the past is a bad guide to the future. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a desk research based on newspaper articles and other literature...

...Jacques Richardson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe and explains the development of the evolving mental phenomenon of alternative history. Design/methodology/approach The article analyzes the role of the fiction known as the “What if?” school of speculation about...

...   Malye , Martine   Orange and Francis   Zamponi . Histoire secrète de la Ve république (Secret History of the Fifth Republic) . Paris : La Découverte   2006 . 752 pp.   €25.00 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Politics History France A French adage...

... History Peace Middle East It is a prerequisite of human survival that cycles of violence eventually end. The lethal salvos fired by Israel and Hezbollah apparently have ceased, terrorist/counterterrorist actions in Gaza have eased somewhat, and efforts toward a negotiated peace may resume...

... resources, environmental protection, cultural expansion, politico‐military initiatives, governance, and some of the distractions of daily life Box 1 . In the history of the evolution of processes (mid‐ to long‐term) or events (short‐term), and if our strategy proves right, we are pleased...

... to the question of why Leonardo's non‐artistic bequest to civilization remains so intangible. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Creative thinking Innovation Responsibilities History To be understood, a thing must first be seen as it really is (Sherwin Nuland (2000) , on Leonardo's...

... History For more than 40 years, the nuclear power industry has faced two major obstacles: operating competitively in a hydrocarbon‐dominated energy market and countering anti‐nuclear activist concerns. The nuclear power debate has many components, one important issue being cost. The consensus...

...Daniel Warner As after the Second World War, the USA today plays a dominant role in the world following the end of the Cold War. Since 1989, and up to this day, two main theories of history's unfolding, the circular view and the linear view, clash as far as the future role and position of the USA...

...Irving H. Buchen Megatrends are historical nexuses which gather and focus both obvious and subtle sub‐trends as a contribution to the history of future ideas. A substantive candidate of the twenty‐first century is “convergence”. That pursuit of “the unity of all knowledge” involves the integration...

...Herbert I. London Popular fearmongers never let the facts ruin a good story, even though, this article reflects, history has proven the pessimists wrong. Pessimistic predictions in a range of areas including land, population, energy, economy and technology are deflated and a lively selection...

... it will be driven by the need for appealing to, entertaining, creating and communicating human feelings and dreams. oAf cmraasnhkicnodurse in the history The dream society is created out of an evolution that has been going on for 100 000 ± 200 000 years. It is possible to argue that it represents the largest change...

... the time frame, and the concept of history, sustainability mandates that human intelligence not abdicate its responsibilities by attempting to defer to a static, mythic, external force. What is important in a world where a clock “ticks” once a century, or where a diorama in the museum of the future has...

..., resulting in positive social transformations. Change Ephemera History © MCB UP Limited 1999 Camford foresight/ vol.01, no.02, apr.99 th e jou rn al of futu res stu dies, strateg ic th inkin g an d p olicy © 1999 Cam ford Publishing Ltd .143 14 63 -6 68 9/ 99 /0 20 14 3 -11 article: the zone...