Governing the futures: Dream or survival societies?

Journal of Futures Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1-14

  Dator, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Communications; Democracy; Design; Dream society; Electronic direct democracy; Governance; Information technologies (IT); IPAIT; Newtonian; Quantum; Social invention; Survival society; Ubiquitous society; Worldviews

Indexed keywords

EID: 36448997795     PISSN: 10276084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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