Crucial Questions About the Future presents readers concerned about the long-range future and their place in it with a series of tough but necessary questions and, refreshingly, offers no pat answers. Instead, what is offered is a structured and reason-bound exploration of the complexities of modern life with which the reader, or the future-studies inclined academic, can provide his own answers to these eternal and critical questions. Contents: The Future of Human Civilization; What Is Most Important of All?; Why Do We Act In Ways That Hurt Our Future?; What Will Our Actual Future Turn Out To Be?; How Can We Achieve a Satisfactory Future?; Preventing the Worst Catastrophes; Intelligent Life in the Universe: What Role Will It Play In Our Future?; From Which Aspects of Reality Can We Gain Meaning and Purpose?; How Can Each Person Contribute?
"A unique tool for awakening students and adults to basic questions about the future." - Adult Learning
"A lively and accessible book which poses some of the fundamental questions about futures for our civilization in clear and non-technical language." - Adult Learning
"Asks all the right questions. A must for school and college curricula." - Adult Learning
"Unlike any other book in the field that I know, this one also takes a genuinely long view, dealing not only with immediate problems and concerns, but with our prospects on earth and in the galaxy for millennia to come." - Adult Learning
"It fills an enormous void in the futures literature. I know of nothing that looks at such a spread of futures issues and discusses them so engagingly." - Adult Learning
"This book is a call to action that should not be missed." - Adult Learning
"A unique tool for awakening students and adults to basic questions about the future." - Adult Learning
"A lively and accessible book which poses some of the fundamental questions about futures for our civilization in clear and non-technical language." - Adult Learning
"Asks all the right questions. A must for school and college curricula." - Adult Learning
"Unlike any other book in the field that I know, this one also takes a genuinely long view, dealing not only with immediate problems and concerns, but with our prospects on earth and in the galaxy for millennia to come." - Adult Learning
"It fills an enormous void in the futures literature. I know of nothing that looks at such a spread of futures issues and discusses them so engagingly." - Adult Learning
"The questions he asks may not be the only questions, but they are important..." - Futures
"A valuable, readable and brief introduction to the key questions relating to Future Issues." - Long Range Planning.