The future of Futures Studies: a utopian tale

Roberto Poli

Chapter 35 in Handbook of Futures Studies, 2024, pp 507-512 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: While struggling to become a new discipline may prove helpful for arriving at a full academic acknowledgment of Futures Studies, this chapter does not see this struggle as the best option because deeper issues are at stake, such as the transformation of the entire field of the social and human sciences from primarily past-oriented to primarily future-oriented efforts. The nature of present challenges, that ism their complexity, requires us to overcome traditional boundaries and develop a new science. In so doing, a vast array of new theoretical and practical challenges shall emerge. Within this transformation, FS must have a role to play because FS is the scientific field that by far has worked with the future more than any other field, accumulating in its 70 years of experience the widest and most extensive experience of the many nuances of the future.

Keywords: Business and Management; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Environment; Innovations and Technology; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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