Overview
- Collects the work of James Allen Dator who is largely credited with shaping futures studies within American universities
- Covers a more than 50 year period of thought, reflection, and ideas
- Helps readers to better understand the trends that may shape tomorrow
Part of the book series: Anticipation Science (ANTISC, volume 5)
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Table of contents (39 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Keywords
- Future Studies
- Alternative Future
- The Manoa School
- James Allen Dator
- Future-oriented Thinking
- Futurists
- Preferred futures
- Futures Theories
- Future Theories and Methods
- Alternative Images of the Future
- Future Generations
- Visions of Preferred Futures
- Futures-oriented Questions
- Attributes of a Good Futurist
About this book
The collection spans a more than 50 year period of thought, reflection, and instruction. In particular, the papers examine six main topics. These include meditations on the very nature of future studies, visions of preferred futures, ideas about alternative futures, and details on future theories and methods. Coverage also considers such specific topics as AI and robots, the environment, food, culture, energy, families, future generations, and more.
Overall, these papers help readers gain insight into what it takes to weave together alternative images of the future in useful ways. They also reveal cross-disciplinary patterns in key fields of human endeavor that will help readers better understand trends and emerging issues.Reviews
“This book is a ‘must have’ for the personal library of any tourism academic and indeed anyone involved with tourism. I commend it to you without reservation.” (Michael Conlin, Journal of Tourism Futures, Vol. 6 (2), 2020)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
James Allen Dator is Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, Department of Political Science, and Adjunct Professor in the College of Architecture, of the University of Hawaii at Manoa; Co-Chair and Core Lecturer, Space Humanities, International Space University, Strasbourg, France; Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Futures Strategy, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Daejeon, Korea, and former President, World Futures Studies Federation. He is editor-in-chief of the World Futures Review. He also taught in the College of Law and Politics, Rikkyo University (Tokyo, for six years), the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, the University of Toronto, and the InterUniversity Consortium for Postgraduate Studies in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.
He received a BA in Ancient and Medieval History and Philosophy from Stetson University, an MA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in Political Science from The American University. He did post-graduate work at Virginia Theological Seminary (Ethics and Church History), Yale University (Japanese Language), The University of Michigan (Linguistics and Quantitative Methods), Southern Methodist University (Mathematical Applications in Political Science).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Jim Dator: A Noticer in Time
Book Subtitle: Selected work, 1967-2018
Authors: Jim Dator
Series Title: Anticipation Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17387-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17386-9Published: 30 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17389-0Published: 30 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17387-6Published: 19 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2522-039X
Series E-ISSN: 2522-0403
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 473
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Computers and Society, Science and Technology Studies, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Social Theory