Finding time for the future and overcoming future avoidance

Emerald - 2005
Irving H.Buchen1
1Director of International Programs, IMPAC University, Punta Gorda, Florida, USA (E‐mail: [email protected])

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PurposeTo present the degree to which futurists (inadvertently perhaps) encourage future avoidance or deflection.Design/methodology/approachIdentifies instances and examples of future deflection and avoidance attributable to the misplaced zeal of forecasters.FindingsProposes five strategies futurists can use to turn avoidance into acceptance.Originality/valueTo call attention to the negative impacts of forecasters and forecasts on audiences and to suggest ways to eliminate or limit such audience alienation.

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