Tony Stevenson The recent advent of futures to business, government and community must gratify the pioneer futurists, even if practice does not always meet their various ideals. Some, notably Jim…

Editorial IntroductionCommunity Engagement for Sustainable Urban FuturesA special issue of Futures, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/futures Greg HearnProfessor of Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane,Australia g.hearn@qut.edu.au Marcus FothAssociate Professor, Queensland University of…

Accusations of calling myself a futurist were levelled at me recently by my friend, Merrill Findlay, of Imagine the Future, a non-governmental organization in Melbourne, Australia. She believes everyone is…

Tony Stevenson There is general optimism and enthusiasm, often hyperbolic, for the emerging Net—the World Wide Web mediated by the Internet—and the way it will change society. But the nature…

In Sohail Inayatullah, editor, The Views of Futurists, Vol 4 of the Knowledge Base of Futures Studies. Brisbane, Foresight International, 2001. Some mornings I emerge from the relative comfort of…

Tony Stevenson and Sohail Inayatullah In the many years of being engaged in futures research, attending futures studies confer­ences, workshops and courses, we remain surprised and dismayed at the lack…