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future times: learningfor tomorrow
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| Summer 2007 |
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In This Issue
From the Desk of the President
Well, the Annual Conference is almost upon us, and the Society as usual is a beehive of activity (although that may no longer be a useful metaphor with the widespread onset of Colony Collapse Disorder). The trip to Korea was an enormous success, in the sense that the Society is very well thought of there and the presentations on global cultural futures were well received. In addition to print and television coverage, a number of futurists were asked to participate in a televised management training series run by Samsung Electronics.
As a capstone to the trip, an agreement was reached to translate a version of THE FUTURIST magazine into Korean on a regular basis. While this project is still in its early stages, the first issue is in production and we await our first Asian edition with anticipation. Ed Cornish’s book, Futuring: The Exploration of the Future has already been translated into Korean (and Mongolian and Arabic as well) and so the magazine project is a logical next step.
Finally, you might have noticed the new title for this publication. With an eye to producing our online publications in a slightly more timely fashion, we are testing a combined approached, which would include news from WFS and the chapters (as Future Times has done in the past) and also articles from members and others on a range of topics of interest (such as Learning Tomorrow has done). Hence the highly creative (or not) combination name of Future Times: Learning for Tomorrow (love those colons!)
Anyway, this will hopefully be a way to get useful information, columns and shorter articles out to our readers, so please keep sending them along to us for inclusion. As well, let us know how you like this format. I can be reached at tmack@wfs.org.
FUTUREtakes, a publication of the National Capital Area chapter of WFS is soon going to be issuing a special thematic issue, entitled “International and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Future.” This special issue is designed to accomplish the following:
- Reinforces the lessons that various nations, peoples, and cultures can offer to meet the challenges of the future – lessons that might otherwise be lost to deculturation and increasing cultural hegemony,
- Highlights the cultural values and alternative lifestyles of diverse nations, peoples, and cultures – values and lifestyles that can impact the way that we live, work, and think,
- Challenges hidden culture-based assumptions, including values and everyday lifestyles taken for granted (for example, the alarm clock – commute – caffeine syndrome, or notions of prosperity or identity), that may hamper futurist thinking and constructive solutions,
- Furthers interdisciplinary education, and cross-cultural learning among students of diverse backgrounds, and
- Extends constructive dialog on the future to those cultures that are often marginalized, thereby giving a voice to those who otherwise have none.
But there is much more that we could do together. In addition to the authors featured in this issue, there are others authors who had planned to contribute articles but who did not have the time or opportunity to do so. For this reason, we are pleased to announce a second special issue – same theme – to be published in May 2008. As for this issue, planned distribution includes embassies, selected educational institutions and international think tanks, and various other international, ethnic, and cultural organizations. —David Stein
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