Week 3 readings

Hi all,

A couple of notes about the reading for this week. Below are the bibliographical details for the readings we covered today.

Jan 29:

- Jim Dator, "Caring for future generations" [pdf], July 02007

- Alvin Toffler, "The future as a way of life" [jpg], in Society As It Is: A Reader, Glen Gaviglio & David E. Raye (eds.), Macmillan, New York, 01971, pp. 450-461 (first published in Horizon, Summer 01965)

- Walt Anderson, "The Virtual Republic" [jpg], in Tae-Chang Kim & Jim Dator (eds.), Co-Creating a Public Philosophy for Future Generations, Adamantine, Twickenham [UK], 01999, pp. 17-23.

- Tae-Chang Kim & James A. Dator, "Future generations: They are our conscience" [pdf], first published in Kim & Dator (above), 01999.

And for Thursday, Jan 31:

- Stewart Brand, "Uses of the Future", [jpg], from The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility, Basic Books, New York, 01999, pp. 1:18-1:23.
- Thomas Cahill, excerpt from The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels, [jpg], Nan A. Talese/Anchor, New York, 01998, pp. 123-132.
- Jim Dator, "What Futures Studies Is, and Is Not" [doc]
- Jim Dator, "Aiglatson (To Be a Good Futurist)" [pdf], from "Futures Studies as Applied Knowledge", 01993, http://www.futures.hawaii.edu/dator/futures/appliedknow.html

I am sending these to you as a zipped folder attachment. Please remember to bring your hard copies to each session.

Keep those minute papers flowing in -- I'm interested to know what you all thought about today's class.

Cheers,
Stuart