“New Beginnings” Within a New Normal for the Four Futures

Abstract

Since the mid-1970s, it has been a hallmark of the “Manoa School of Futures Studies” to insist that it is not possible to “predict” “The Future”, but that instead “Alternative Futures” can and should be “forecasted”, and “Preferred Futures” envisioned, designed and invented, on a continuing basis (Dator 1979, 2009b).