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Futures studies
About: Futures studies is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2996 publications have been published within this topic receiving 49505 citations. The topic is also known as: futurology & futurism.
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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present six roadmaps of the anticipated developments of social media in three themes: society, companies, and local environment, and crystallize the results of the report into five main development lines triggered by social media.
Abstract: Social media refers to a combination of three elements: content, user communities and Web 2.0 technologies. This foresight report presents six roadmaps of the anticipated developments of social media in three themes: society, companies, and local environment. One of the roadmaps, the meta-roadmap, is the synthesis of them all. The society sub-roadmap explores societal participation through communities. There are three sub-roadmaps relating to companies: interacting with companies through communities, social media in work environment, and social media enhanced shopping. The local environment sub-roadmap looks at social media in local environment. The roadmapping process was carried out through two workshops at VTT. The results of the report are crystallized into five main development lines triggered by social media. First development line is transparency referring to its increasing role in society, both with positive and negative consequences. The second development line is the rise of ubiquitous participatory communication model. This refers to an increase of two-directional and community-based interactivity in every field, where it has some added value. The third development is reflexive empowerment. This refers to the role of social media as an enabler of grass-root community collaboration. The fourth development line is the duality personalization/fragmentation vs. mass effects/integration. Personalization /fragmentation emphasises the tailoring of the web services and content. This development is counterweighted by mass effects/integration, like the formation of super-nodes in the web. The fifth development line is the new relations of physical and virtual worlds. This development line highlights the idea that practices induced by social media, e.g. communication, participation, co-creation, feedback and rating, will get more common in daily environment, and that virtual and physical worlds will be more and more interlinked.
214 citations
01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarized the available evidence regarding the potential of urban agriculture to respond to a number of key urban challenges and reviewed the perspectives on urban agriculture applied by local and national authorities.
Abstract: SUMMARY The current paper brie! y summarizes the available evidence regarding the potential of urban agriculture to respond to a number of key urban challenges and reviews the perspectives on urban agriculture applied by local and national authorities. The last section of the paper brie! y presents the authors’ views on the development of urban agriculture as an integral part of sustainable city development.
209 citations
TL;DR: The authors summarizes recent experiences in government or national technology forecasting which are now often referred to as foresight, while the methodological tool kit changed from mathematical models to more qualitative scenarios or visions, the Delphi method has become the backbone of foresight projects.
194 citations
TL;DR: Corporate foresight is defined as a practice that permits an organization to lay the foundation for a future competitive advantage as discussed by the authors, and it has been studied extensively in the literature, including the field of finance.
190 citations
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13 Nov 2003
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a 21st Century Agenda for Future Enquiry (21st century agenda), which is an attempt to expand and deepen a futures frame.
Abstract: Part 1: Aspects of Futures Enquiry 1. A 21st Century Agenda 2. Are There Futures Beyond Dystopia? 3. Professional Standards in Futures Work Part 2. The Case Against Hegemony 4. Three Pop Futurist Texts 5. Perils of Breadth American Style Part 3. Expanding and Deepening a Futures Frame 6. Beyond the Mundane 7. Changing Methods and Approaches in Futures Studies Part 4. Futures Studies and the Integral Agenda 8. Transcending Flatland 9. A New Framework for Environmental Scanning 10. Knowledge Creation, Futures Methods and the Integral Agenda 11. Towards Integral Futures Part 5. Social Learning Through Applied Foresight 12. Futures Studies to Social Foresight 13. Emergence of Futures into the Educational Mainstream 14. Creating and Sustaining Second Generation Institutions of Foresight 15. Foresight in a Social Context Part 6. Strategies and Outlooks Conclusion: The Dialectic of Foresight and Experience 16. A 'Great Transition' or Many? 17. Futures Studies as a Civilizational Catalyst
186 citations