PREDICTING FUTURE

Predicting future



Predicting future

Introduction

Marshall McLuhan was a bright Canadian scholar who failed degree six, and who then went on to profit from five University qualifications, encompassing a doctorate in English from Cambridge University.

McLuhan dropped out of favor by the time he passed away in 1980. However, he has now become the celestial champion of the electrical devices age, for he prophesied what has arrive to pass. The Internet and the World Wide Web have now conceived the "global village", that McLuhan envisioned in the 60's.

He accepted that the new electrical devices newspapers have fundamentally changed the way persons believe, seem and act. He forecast that we would be in the midst of a transformation, and that the world will not ever be the same.

 

Future studies

Futures Studies is usually misread from two perspectives. On the one hand, there are those who accept as factual it is, or imagines to be, a predictive research which, if correctly directed, strives to foretell with sensible correctness what THE future WILL BE(Griffin 1997).

There are no such futures investigations worthy of your attention. Nothing in humanity after the most trivial can be accurately predicted. Whatever might have been considered to be the case in the 19th and early 20th Centuries, we should all understand by now that humanity is not some gigantic appliance, the future states of which, if its inward workings are correctly appreciated and its procedures mindfully calculated, can be accurately pre-determined(Henry 2006).

On the other hand, it is not the case that it is impossible to trial to foresee things to arrive, or that anyone's estimate is as good as any individual else's. Even though the future will not be forecast (and absolutely no proposition of the future, no issue how eminent the source, should be uncritically "believed"), there are ideas and procedures which futurists have evolved, checked, and directed in latest years which have verified helpful, and exciting.

Understanding and applying the ideas and procedures of futures investigations will endow persons and assemblies to foresee the futures more helpfully, and to form it appreciably more to their own preferences(Marshall 1967).

Over the forty years that I have been educating futures investigations and managing futures study, I have arrive to realize that there are two rudimentary things to realize about the future, and therefore about futures studies. I have, rather jokingly, bordered them as "Dator's Laws of the Future." They, and a couple of their corollaries, are asserted here in capsule form.

Contemporary media and future predictions

I. "The future" will not be "predicted" because "the future" does not exist.

Futures investigations do not--or should not--pretend to forecast "the future." It investigations concepts about the future--what I generally call "images of the future"--which each one-by-one (and group) has (often retaining some inconsistent pictures at one time). These pictures often assist as the cornerstone for activities in the present. Individual and assembly pictures of the futures are often highly volatile, altering as asserted by altering happenings or ...