Minute Paper (2-12-08)

 

We touch based on the four alternative futures using Hawaii as an example. The change that stands out for me is the discipline society by enforcing values and duties. I find it very awkward for it is something that it difficult to instill in the people and it takes time to develop so that people will get used to it. The four futures are very concrete giving the people a possible, preferable, and probable way at looking at the future from a different perspective and angle. One thing that draws my attention is the maps to study futures. First, we have theory that supports what the future may somehow look like and what to expect of the futures. From theory to the shaping of the images of the future that gather all alternative and option of how the future will be like base on  the issue, for example, global warming. On both side of the images of the future, one is trends and the second is events. Trends give the idea of the reality and predictions of the future using graphs and charts to compare each future. Events are the possibilities of one future can be virtual and the other as imaginative thinking. The last factor in the maps to study futures is the methods. Methods cover what obstacles and actions to take in order for one future to happen or not to be happen. The readings were very intellectual and precise at different range of the future.

posted by ruta..

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