articles on-line

In this section, we invite you to consult various types of texts relating to the Futures Studies:

historical texts, generally digitalized by futurists (section timeless)
recent texts, published on other websites (section in the air)
texts which we decided to publish, with the agreement of their author, to give them a column
a press review of the articles relating to Futures Studies and published in the media (section press-book)

press-book

The Time Lords [read]: FINANCIAL TIMES; 27 janvier 2007
La prospective en Corée [read]: CHOSUN; January 10, 2007 (daily Korean; 2,5 million subscribers)
When a revolution is needed in the educational systems [read]: Munhwa Ilbo; march 31, 2007 (daily Korean), Seoul.

The revival of the future thinking in the European cities [read]: PARRAD Frédérique, in Territoires du Futur n°4, mai 2006, pages 43-47
To think/Prepare the future of France [read]: GOUX-BAUDIMENT Fabienne, novembre 2005 (non publié)
From the activity of ‘French Prospective’ to the territories’ strategies of development and organization [read]: Guy LOINGER, september 2006 (not published)

Workshop N° 17 - “FUTUROLOGY AND COMPLEXITY” [visit]: Pierre GONOD
A new age of the territories - a new age of the Prospective [read]: HEURGON Edith, LANDRIEU Josée, may 2004 (unknown publication)
Predicting the probability of an event never before observed is meaningless [visit]: Rational agents should integrate probabilities in their predictions about uncertain future events. However, whether humans can do this, and if so, how this ability originates, are controversial issues. One influential view (2, 3) is that human probabilistic reasoning is severely defective, being affected by heuristics and biases. Another influential view (4, 5) claims that humans are unable to predict future events correctly without experiencing the frequency of past outcomes. Indeed, according to this view, in the environment in which we evolved only "the encountered frequencies of actual events" (5) were available, hence predicting the probability of an event never before observed is meaningless.

MEMORY OF THE PROSPECTIVE - LIPSOR [visit]: The texts presented are exhausted and untraceable. The contacted editors, in particular the PUF, Dunod, OECD and Datar do not intend to republish them and declared us that to make these texts accessible contribute to the perenniality of the memory of their authors and to the spread of their thought. That they are thanked here for their generous and co-operative attitude.
MEMORY OF THE PROSPECTIVE - DIACT [visit]
RESEARCH IN PROSPECTIVE : LIBRARY - SICS [visit]: We undertook to place at your disposal, in extenso, a small number of “texts founders” relating to mainly the futurology. Gradually, we will enrich this “library”, but while remaining very selective and by privileging texts difficult to find.