Jim Dator: A Noticer in Time: Selected work, 1967-2018

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This book features a selection of the published writings and public presentations of Jim Dator. Most of the chapters are directly concerned with futures studies and ideas about the futures. The topic covers many disciplines and subjects. It is also concerned with many different parts of the world, even Mars. In addition, a few of the earlier papers contained here are about more conventional topics in politics and religion. The collection spans a more than 50 year period of thought, reflection, and instruction. In particular, the papers examine six main topics. These include meditations on the very nature of future studies, visions of preferred futures, ideas about alternative futures, and details on future theories and methods. Coverage also considers such specific topics as AI and robots, the environment, food, culture, energy, families, future generations, and more. Overall, these papers help readers gain insight into what it takes to weave together alternative images of the future in useful ways. They also reveal cross-disciplinary patterns in key fields of human endeavor that will help readers better understand trends and emerging issues. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Front Matter ....Pages 1-2 What Futures Studies Is, and Is Not (Jim Dator)....Pages 3-5 Futures Studies as Applied Knowledge (Jim Dator)....Pages 7-16 As If I Virtually Said This to Pepsi (Jim Dator)....Pages 17-21 Tourism in Hawaii 1776–2076 (Jim Dator)....Pages 23-35 Alternative Futures at the Manoa School (Jim Dator)....Pages 37-54 Some in Power, Some in Pain: A Symphonic Meditation on Humanity and Space (Jim Dator)....Pages 55-61 The Last Supper of the Dinosaurs (Jim Dator)....Pages 63-75 Time, the Future, and Other Fantasies (Jim Dator)....Pages 77-97 Front Matter ....Pages 99-103 Can We See the US of the Year 2230 in the Japan of 1992? (Jim Dator)....Pages 105-108 Valuelessness and the Plastic Personality (Jim Dator)....Pages 109-112 We Do Everything as Well as We Can (Jim Dator)....Pages 113-118 Political Futuristics: Toward the Study of Alternative Political Futures (Jim Dator)....Pages 119-124 The Pedagogy of the Oppressed: North American Style (Jim Dator)....Pages 125-138 Orienting Hawaii to the Future: Multi-mode Adult Education (Jim Dator)....Pages 139-145 Considering Hawaii’s Future (Jim Dator)....Pages 147-159 The WFSF and I (Jim Dator)....Pages 161-176 De-colonizing the Future (Jim Dator)....Pages 177-190 Looking for Europe from the Outside (Jim Dator)....Pages 191-194 Sea Level Rise and the Future of the Pacific Islands (Jim Dator)....Pages 195-198 Korea as the Wave of a Future: The Emerging Dream Society of Icons and Aesthetic Experience (Jim Dator)....Pages 199-217 Assuming “Responsibility for Your Rose” (Jim Dator)....Pages 219-238 Energy: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future (Jim Dator)....Pages 239-247 Korea as a Conserver Society (Jim Dator)....Pages 249-271 “New Beginnings” Within a New Normal for the Four Futures (Jim Dator)....Pages 273-291 Universities Without “Quality” and Quality Without “Universities” (Jim Dator)....Pages 293-313 Uncertain Futures of Science and Religion (Jim Dator)....Pages 315-320 Front Matter ....Pages 321-324 The Honolulu Electronic Town Meeting (Jim Dator)....Pages 325-333 Bright Future for Democracy? (Jim Dator)....Pages 335-350 Inventing the Future of Courts and Courts of the Future (Jim Dator)....Pages 351-358 Courts of the Twenty-first Century: A View from Hawaii (Jim Dator)....Pages 359-378 Judicial Governance of the Long Blur (Jim Dator)....Pages 379-394 Governing the Futures: Dream or Survival Societies? (Jim Dator)....Pages 395-408 Communication Technologies and the Futures of Courts and Law (Jim Dator)....Pages 409-417 On the Rights and Rites of Robots and Artilects (Jim Dator)....Pages 419-430 Mortgage Banking for the New American Empire, and Other Futures (Jim Dator)....Pages 431-439 Structure Matters for Crime and Justice (Jim Dator)....Pages 441-448 Newt and I and W (Jim Dator)....Pages 449-454 One Trump and Il Duce Wild (Jim Dator)....Pages 455-459 Moving Towards Visions of Nonkilling Futures (Jim Dator)....Pages 461-473