Advancing futures studies: a reply to Michael Marien *. (Rejoinder).

From: Futures | Date: June 1, 2002| Author: Bell, Wendell | Copyright information

1. Introduction

Thanks to Michael Marien, futurists have one of the most useful items in their bag of tools, Future Survey: A Monthly Abstract of Books, Articles, and Reports Concerning Forecasts, Trends, and Ideas about the Future. For the most part, he has single-handedly written, as he says in his paper, more than 20,000 abstracts of futures-relevant literature during a period of 30 years, most of which appeared in Future Survey. Put another way, if he never took a va...

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