The search for foresight: the World Future Society's emergence from dream to reality; In this second installment of his memoirs, the World Future Society's founding president describes how volunteers sharing "ideas and ideals" were drawn to the new, forward-looking organization.(Editorial)

From: The Futurist | Date: March 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

The World Future Society was still just a dream when we announced its founding on October 28, 1966. The Society had no members, no headquarters, no money, no institutional backing, and no legal recognition. But our tiny organizing committee in Washington, D.C., had succeeded in melding our individual dreams into a shared dream: We had achieved a fairly clear vision of what we wanted the Society to be.

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We also had weathered our first crisis: Just before we announced the Society's founding, David Goldberg, who had been a key member of our organizing ...

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