...Dr Roberto Poli; Roberto Poli Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the three guiding ideas of the social foresight course, namely, the difference between abstract and concrete futures (i.e. the difference between risk and uncertainty); the three levels of futures studies (forecast...

... they only risk their jobs and some income now. There are also always some persons at the margin who are able to fulfil their duties but only just so and with difficulties. Any increase of complexity could only change this margin but not the complete picture including people who are very well able to fulfil...