Abstract
“Time” and “The Future” would seem to be two of the most central concepts for futures studies, but in fact, “time” was barely discussed by the founders of futures studies, and has seldom been problematized subsequently. I have reviewed what I consider to be the founding texts of futures studies, in English (In chronological order: Wells 1913; Heilbroner 1960; Polak 1961; Toffler 1965, 1970; Bell 1966; Flechtheim 1966; de Jouvenel 1967; Kahn and Weiner 1967; McHale 1969). The only one to consider time seriously to some extent was John McHale in the opening chapter of his book, The Future of the Future, cited above, titled, “Time’s Arrow”. Indeed, McHale prefaced his book with this poem he wrote:
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Dator, J. (2019). Time, the Future, and Other Fantasies. In Anticipation Science (Vol. 5, pp. 77–97). Springer Science and Business Media B.V. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17387-6_8
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