A Short History of The Future.

1991 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Robert N. Wilson ◽  
W. Warren Wagar
Keyword(s):  
Short History ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

Other People's Stories

1986 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 283-285
Author(s):  
David Morton
Keyword(s):  
Short History ◽  
Drama In Education ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

DAVID HORNBROOK has usefully helped us to ‘look back to the future’. He ends with a claim that drama teaching should be about ‘the making of meanings’ and ‘providing satisfactory interpretive structures’. That it should! And David H. leads by example, for he has ‘satisfactorily’ interpreted the short history of drama in education to support his argument. Nothing wrong with that, and he is more honest than most drama teachers. However, I fear they will ‘interpret’ much of his piece to suit their own ends – namely the continued development of drama syllabuses for examination.

Professional and Personal Service Robots

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-117
Author(s):  
Teresa T. Zielinska
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Service Robots ◽  
Service Robot ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Short History ◽  
Personal Service ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

The short history of service robots with its precursors is presented. The definitions of service robot are discussed with some statistical data. The history of service robots summarizes the ancient period with robot precursors, the middle ages and the period of industrial revolution. The representative examples of different kinds of service robots built in the XX c. and XXI c. are given. The article is concluded focusing on the future trends.

A SHORT HISTORY OF INAHTA

1999 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 236-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hailey ◽  
Devidas Menon
Keyword(s):  
Health Technology Assessment ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Short History ◽  
International Network ◽  
Exchange Of Information ◽  
The Future ◽  
Joint Health ◽  
History Of

The need for better communication and collaboration between health technology assessment agencies led to the formation of an International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment (INAHTA). The network now comprises 27 agencies and has been successful in improving exchange of information and in undertaking joint health technology assessment projects. Issues for the future include possible changes to criteria for membership and identification of resources for more extensive programs.

The Negative Abyss

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Featherstone
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Attention Capture ◽  
First Century ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Short History ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Contemporary Media

This article explores what one might call the dystopia of contemporary screen-based culture through a discussion of the work of Paul Virilio and Bernard Stiegler. Centrally, it explains that the screen might be seen as a negative abyss, where absolute surface creates the effect of infinite depth and a sense of absolute freedom obscures the truth of solipsistic self-reflection and enclosure. It explores this idea through reference to Virilio’s concept of the “squared horizon” and a short history of screen culture that commences with Plato’s myth of the cave, where perceptions of surface and depth clash and contrast in the underworld. It then turns to Friedrich Nietzsche’s use of the idea of the abyss. This work on Plato and Nietzsche brings together the ideas of the screen and the abyss. The article next takes up Edmund Husserl’s notion of the horizon, which structures the human perception of movement through time, and relates this to Virilio’s concept of the negative horizon, which rushes toward humanity rather than endlessly moving into the future. At this point the negative horizon recalls the abyssal screen that is simultaneously infinite distance and absolute surface and the horror of contemporary media culture. Finally, the article reflects on Virilio’s work on technodesertification and disappearance and Stiegler’s theory of the destruction of the delay of desire in the immediacy of drive through attention capture to show how screen culture annihilates the thickness of the thing itself in favor of flat images. In conclusion, the article explains that this is the future of new media culture—the twenty-first-century dystopia of the negative abyss.

A short history of the future

Futures ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 667-668
Author(s):  
I.F. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Short History ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals THE FUTURE OF W. WARREN WAGAR

1996 ◽  
pp. 94-102
Author(s):  
Stephen K. Sanderson
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
World Economy ◽  
World System ◽  
Short History ◽  
World System Theory ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Capitalist World Economy ◽  
Capitalist World

In his fascinat ing book "A Short History of the Future," published in 1992, W. Warren Wagar lays out a futuristic vision of the world over the next two hundred years that draws extensively on Inunanuel Wallerstein' s world-system theory. In the year 2001 began the last of the great Kondratieff upswings of the capitalist world-economy. That economy had come to be increasingly dominated by a few giant corporations, so that by 2015 12 "megacorps" had assumed control of the world-economy and thegovernments of the major capitalist powers. The Kondratieff upswing ran its course by the early 2030s and then a devastating worldwide depression set in, the lowest point of which was reached in 2043.

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