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Dream Society? Ubiquitous Society?
No Society?
Futures for Finland and the world as seen
from a small Pacific Island.
August 2012
Jim Dator
Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies
Department of Political Science
University of Hawaii at Manoa
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I would like to start by paying my respects
to Pentti Malaska
and Mika Mannermaa.
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They were both wonderful friends,
inspiring colleagues,
and frequent pranksters and poets
who had an enormous influence on my life and thoughts.
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I remember them well
here in Finland,
in Dubrovnik,
at various venues around the world,
and in Hawaii where they somehow usually managed to
bring a "Finnish summer" with them.
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It always seemed to be overcast, cool, and rainy
when they visited Hawaii,
instead of our normal clear and warm weather.
But they never complained.
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Well, I am complaining--
they abandoned us too soon,
with too much work remaining to do,
and so the rest of us will just have to work harder
on their behalf.
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I have been involved in futures studies
for a very long time.
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I became interested in futures studies
while I was teaching for six years
in the College of Law and Politics
of Rikkyo University
in Tokyo, Japan in the early 1960s.
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I taught the first officially-recognized futures course
while I was at Virginia Tech in the late 1960s.
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I went to the University of Hawaii in 1970,
just as something called "Hawaii 2000"
was being formed by the governor, legislature,
business community and university--
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One of the many outcomes of that process
was the creation, by the Hawaii State Legislature,
of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies,
placed at the University of Hawaii, in 1972.
I have been Director of that Center since then.
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In the mid 1970s, the Department of Political Science,
of which I am a member, created a
two-year academic and internship MA program in
Alternative Futures,
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and since then has produced a stream of people
who have earned very good livings
as consulting futurists
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Many also stayed on for a PhD in political science
with a focus on alternative futures.
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During the 1980s and 90s, I was first
Secretary General
and then President of
the World Futures Studies Federation.
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As such I got to see what "the future" looks like
in over forty countries of the world.
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During the 1970s and 80s,
I also taught futures courses every spring
in the InterUniversity Center
for Postgraduate Studies
in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.
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Most importantly,
during the 1980s and early 90s
I went to almost every
Communist nation
and talked with people who were
interested in
a different future
from the one then ahead of them.
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I can assure you that the future is very different
when seen from
different cultures and places.
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So it is out of forty years of work around the world
that I bring you this summary of
what futures studies is
and is not:
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Futures Studies, Planning & Policy-Making,
and Administration
Futures Studies is related to
but different from
Planning and Policy-Making
Just as Planning and Policy-making
are related to
but different from
day-to-day Administration.
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Just as day-to-day administration is to be guided
by planning and policies,
so also should planning and policies be guided
by prior futures foresight activities.
Policy-making and planning
without prior futures foresight is at best
worthless and most likely
harmful.
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Futures Studies:
Some fundamental principles
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Futurists can not
predict
THE Future
(No one can)
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A prediction
is intended to be
a true statement
an accurate statement
about the futures.
Once we lived in communities
where prediction was possible.
Not now!
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But futurists can and do
forecast
Alternative FuturesS
(and so should you)
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A forecast
is intended to be
a logical statement
a useful statement
about the futures.
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Futures are
plural,
alternative,
diverse,
possible:
futuribles
Not
THE Future
but
Alternative FutureS
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Most importantly
futures studies helps you
invent
Preferred Futures
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But to be effective
the process of forecasting and envisioning
must be done
continuously
and not be a
one-shot activity
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Do not Predict “THE Future”
Forecast “Alternative FutureS”
Invent “Preferred Futures”
Continuously
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Futures studies
as an academic and as a consulting activity
is based on the identification and analysis of
images of the futures;
theories of social stability and change;
methods of social forecasting and design;
continuing trends; and
emerging issues:
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Theory
Trends Images Events
Methods
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Stages of social evolution and changes in
communication technologies
????????Now
InformationElectronics100
IndustrialPrinting400
AgriculturalWriting5,000
Hunting & GatheringSpeech35, 000
Homo SapiensPre-speech200,000
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WHAT’S NEXT??
?
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The answer to the question:
what's next?
is always:
There are four generic alternative futures.
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Four Generic Alternative Futures
Continued Growth
Collapse
Disciplined Society
Transformational Society
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WHAT’S NEXT??
?
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WHAT’S NEXT?
CONTINUED GROWTH?
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WHAT’S NEXT?
COLLAPSE?
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WHAT’S NEXT?
A DISCIPLINED SOCIETY?
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WHAT’S NEXT?
A TRANSFORMATIONAL SOCIETY?
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Four Generic Alternative Futures
Continued Growth
Collapse
Disciplined Society
Transformational Society
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Grow
(The official view of the future everywhere)
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Collapse
(The future of our nightmares and growing concerns
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Discipline
(Sustaining fundamental values and avoiding collapse)
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Transform
(Evolving towards posthumans, new life, and NotEarth)
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Please note that
we did not
"make up"
these four generic futures.
They are not
products of our imagination.
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They are products of
years of empirical research
on the huge number of
images of the futures
that exist
in our minds,
our stories,
our movies,
our strategic plans,
our daily actions.
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All of the billions of
images of the futures
that exist in the world
are variations of one of the
four generic alternative futures
or some combination of the four.
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It is clear that Continued Economic Growth
is the official future
for most of the world.
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I am very eager to learn if it is different here,
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there is only
One Future
being discussed in the United States
and in most of the part of the world
I am most familiar with--
Japan, Korea, China, Southeast Asia.
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Obama and Romney both argue over
who can get the economy
growing again.
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Neither expresses the slightest doubt that
the economy can, should, and will
grow again.
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There is nothing in
the words of any American politician,
or business leader,
or university president,
or economist
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who is quoted in
The New York Times
or any other American newspaper
or on any television station
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to make anyone doubt
that the recession will be over
and that growth will start again,
if we just follow
the right policies.
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Absolutely nothing
came out of
Rio+20
in June 2012
to indicate otherwise.
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Few leaders from any of the
major countries attended,
and there was nothing in the final report
pointing to any serious concerns
for the futures.
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If we will just
let the market place
do its magic
without hindrance
from some monster called
"government",
then all will be well.
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What do you think?
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I was asked
by the people who invited me here
to say something about the
Ubiquitous Society,
something you already know a lot about.
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And of course there are
Four Futures for
a U-Society:
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One U-Society
will emerge from
the continuation of
the dominant economic trends
from the past.
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It will be a marvelous electronic world
--led by Nokia
it goes without saying--
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with friendly, alert, helpful, benign
chips
in the environment
in our clothing
in our bodies
all around us,
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guiding us, helping us, keeping us well,
making us lawful,
and making lots of money,
while providing lots of jobs
for everyone
forever.
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Well,
maybe so.
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In fact, it must be so
since it appears
everyone believes that.
Or at least everyone says that.
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Well, to be truthful
not everyone
says that.
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There is a version of
Continued Growth of a U-Society
which looks at
the dark side of the technology.
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One can make a very, very
strong case
for the dark side.
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Especially in the United States,
where the inhabitants of
the land of the free
and the home of the brave
seem,
since September 2001,
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to welcome eagerly
every possible technology
of surveillance,
control,
and
"protection."
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Our new national anthem is
the old song by Police:
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Every breath you take
And every move you make
Every bond you break, every step you take
I'll be watching you
Every single day
And every word you say
Every game you play, every night you stay
I'll be watching you
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But that's OK.
This version of
the U-Society
still makes money for
electronic manufacturers,
so what's the worry?
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Privacy is a very new
--and now obsolete--
notion anyway.
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Almost everything that I have
read or heard
about the Ubiquitous Society
is a variation of those
two versions of Continued Growth.
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But there are other futures
for a U-Society.
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Collapse.
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The collapse of
the kind of society
with the kinds of resources
and institutions
that enable
any kind of
a Ubiquitous Society.
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I have spent a lot of time thinking about collapse.
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Trying to determine how
to make collapse
a good thing!
a wonderful opportunity!
something we should welcome and embrace!
Since it may be coming, whether we like it or not.
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How about you?
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Are you concerned about what I call
The Unholy Trinity, Plus One
that may be leading to
social and environmental collapse?
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I call it the Unholy Trinity because,
like the Christian Holy Trinity,
it is three entities
that are actually one.
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But they are all related.
One can not be understood
without understanding the others.
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The Unholy Trinity metaphor illustrates
our tragedy:
three looming, interrelated,
but ignored (as a unity) issues.
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1) the end of abundant and cheap oil
with no replacement in sight,
in spite of current declarations to the contrary;
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2) the necessity of dealing with
neglected environmental issues,
such as global climate change,
sea-level rise,
water scarcity, soil depletion,
and much more; and
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3) the collapse in 2007
of the global economic system
based on advertising and
complex debt instruments
that enabled a few people to amass enormous
fictitious "wealth"
unrelated to market factors of actual
demand and supply.
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"Plus One"
refers to the fundamental
inability of most governments
to deal effectively with these issues,
because of decades of
insults, tax-starving,
indebtedness, and down-sizing.
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In light of the Unholy Trinty
Plus One,
It is very hard to see how
a U-Society
based on
Continued Economic Growth
is possible.
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We all need to learn how
to fish, farm and shoot.
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No!
others say.
There is still time.
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We need to abandon
Continued Economic Growth
and build instead
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a Sustainable Society
a Conserver Society
a Disciplined Society
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We need Green Growth!
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or no growth at all
of the conventional kind.
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These words are often heard.
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But, it may be
too late.
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Many people argued for
a Conserver Society
40 years ago,
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But it seems too late now.
We are in now living in
the future
we were warned about then,
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even though there will be
many more changes ahead.
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Some of you may remember
when I was here before
many years ago.
I was speaking then of
a Transformational Society
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a High Tech Transformation
driven by
robots, artificial intelligence,
autonomous beings,
posthumans, transhumans
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I have not abandoned the Transformational Society
That is my preferred future.
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Consider my name:
Dator.
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Yes!
I AM
a computer.
I am not a human being
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I am a human becoming
a post human.
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I yearn for
a Dream Society
a world of dreams,
icons,
and aesthetic experience.
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That is the kind of
Ubiquitous Society I want:
A Dream Society!
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as the American poet
Richard Brautigan
wrote years ago
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I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.
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I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.
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I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.
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I am still hopeful
that such a
Transformational Future is possible.
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That we will have
the energy, imagination, and will
to create
a Ubiquitous Society
that merges life with nonlife
and transcends both
in peaceful harmony.
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Pentti Malaska wrote:
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Time flows to the present
from two directions
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from the past--as
accomplished deeds
and material manifestations,
as can be perceived, and
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from the future--as
our aims, intentions and
ideas as conceived.
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At the present they mold
together and
form our reality.
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Mika Mannermaa wrote:
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In the not-so-distant future I can sit on the shore of a remote mountain river in Lapland with the whole world in my pocket.
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I don't have to wait for anything, because I live in a world of Instantism.
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Maybe I'll spend this day reading through Dostojevski's whole production, or maybe, all of Harry Potter instead.
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I can visit the Louvre or watch all the episodes of the TV series Friends, or at least the earlier better ones.
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I will spend some time with my alter egos in various virtual versums.
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In the evening I want to meet my children in our virtual cottage.
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But today?
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I will catch the big one!
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Mika was correct:
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Surf's up!
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It is time for all of us
to prepare to surf
some very big tsunami.
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Dream Society? Ubiquitous Society?
No Society?
Futures for Finland and the world as seen
from a small Pacific Island.
August 2012
Jim Dator
Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies
Department of Political Science
University of Hawaii at Manoa