The book has a presence about it. A sense of pregnancy. Reading it, I felt Slaughter s sense for the historical forces at work upon Futures Studies. It s not a chronicler s dusty work, but a book by one who has trod the path for over a quarter-century and dealt with many of its contradictions.
Slaughter embraces both the theoretical and practical.
He views futures studies as a process of active interaction with, and participation within, our environment. It is essentially a transformative process motivated by foresight, and energised by a forward view that encourages participation in creating enriched futures. Futures for the Third Millennium looks back and offers an excellent summation of what has been achieved in futures studies this past century. It then looks at the dissenting futures that make this field so interesting. Slaughter also steps beyond his previous thinking by introducing an expanded vision which he dubs transformative futures.