Edward Cornish

Cornish proposes a professionalization of futures study -- developing a "science of forecasting" -- as a solution to the terrors and foreboding attitudes. He describes the modern futurist movement formed by those who use non-mystical means to study future events. He identifies the three major emerging postulates of the futurist perspective [96]: (1) UNITY - interconnectedness, holistic; (2) TIME - where futures are built from materials of the present, time is part of the unity, in periods of immediacy or deltas of time; (3) Importance of IDEAS. Inventing things that do not exist, like futures, the "futuribles" which shape and are shaped by our images or visions. Distinguishes Concepts and Theories which link them together [99].… (altro)