What About the Future? New Perspectives on Planning, Forecasting and Complexity /

• Main Author: Phillips, Fred (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Science, Technology and Innovation Studies,
• Subjects: Economic policy.; Market research.; Management.; Industrial management.; Risk management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; R & D/Technology Policy.; Market Research/Competitive Intelligence.; Innovation/Technology Management.; Risk Management.; Operations Research/Decision Theory.

This book closely examines the concept and theory of 'future' from a multidisciplinary perspective, focusing on the practice of forecasting, especially in its interaction with complexity. It highlights the relations between forecasting, decision-making and strategy, mixing technical argume...

Table of Contents:

• What Do We Mean by "the Future"?
• Risk and Uncertainty
• Values and the Future
• Why Do We Want to Know the Future?
• Prediction and Planning
• Seeing the Future: Ideas from Philosophy, Linguistics, and Sociology
• Complexity and the Future
• Analytics and the Future
• Imagination and the Future
• Expertise and the Future
• The Present and the Future
• Policy and the Future
• Attitudes, Expectations, and the Future
• The Future of the Future.