Journal of Futures Studies, November 2006, 11(2): 35 60 It is widely accepted in the literature dealing with social and educational change, that the world is experiencing an information and technology revolution. Globally, more and more people are entering a "post-industrial, globalized, pan-capitalist" world and a "post-information" and "networked" society (Milojevic 2002: 166). Rapid changes ...

dimension in depth, he suggests that an appreciation of Nazi health initiatives can help us "better understand how fascism triumphed in the first place" (p. 278). Indeed, future studies of the public reception of Nazi health initiatives may find that they made fascism more attractive-but, granted the sensitivity of health enthusiasts to public opinion and their ambivalence about potentially unp...

The first author would like to record his gratitude to the Julian Hodge Foundation for its support, and to Hong Kong Baptist University for its hospitality during the writing of this paper.

Doing research on future and emerging technologies raises a number of significant ontological and epistemological challenges. The fundamental uncertainty of the future, combined with problems of appropriate descriptions of technology in general, render it difficult to come to an appropriate account of the likely shape and use of future technologies. This paper discusses several streams of resea...