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    • Vol. 14 No. 2 Nov. 2009

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        • Alternative Futures at the Manoa School
        • Deep Futures and China’s Environment
        • Divided China Stands: The Two Half Chinas Alternative
        • El Maghara Scenario A Search for Sustainability and Equity: An Egyptian Case Study
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        • The Second Metric Revolution May Be Underway
        • Can One Parameter Provide the Key to the Understanding of Natural Phenomena? Can There Be a Starting Theory to Explain Everything?
        • Zero Zone Theory Expressing Everything via One Parameter and Its Application to Find New Equations
        • Zero-Zone Theory and Its Implication in Our Civilization: A Summary
        • Plato’s Noble Lie and the Imaginary Number i: An Introduction to the Zero Zone System of Measurement in the Context of Plato’s Republic and the Laws
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    • Vol. 14 No. 1 Aug. 2009

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        • Foresight Styles Assessment: Testing a New Tool for Consulting Futurists
        • Present and Future Developments in Cognitive Enhancement Technologies
        • Entropy and Immortality
        • The Present and Future of Americanization in South Korea
        • My Journey as a Futurist
      • Essays
        • Community, Creative Imagination and Cultures of Peace: A Peace Education and Critical Futurist Perspective
        • Defeating the Taliban: Creating an Alternative Future Through Reframing and Humour
        • The Future Has Arrived: Forecasts of the 2015 Economic Boom
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    • Vol. 13 No. 4 May. 2009

      • Introduction
        • Reflective Practice and Practitioners
      • Articles & Essays
        • Reframing the Future
        • Footprints of the Future: Timelines and Exploratory Forecasts in Futures Research
        • Roads Less Travelled: Different Methods, Different Futures
        • Should Probabilities Be Used with Scenarios?
        • Foresight Maturity Model (FMM): Achieving Best Practices in the Foresight Field
        • Aspirational Futures
        • Futures for Everyone
        • Learning from the Politics of Futures
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    • Vol. 13 No. 3 Feb. 2009

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        • Philanthropy Transformed: Emerging Change and Changes in Charities
        • Causal Layered Pedagogy: Rethinking Curricula Practice
        • The Unholy Trinity, Plus One
        • Technological Singularity and Transcendental Monism: Co-producers of Sustainable Alternative Futures
        • Foresight Styles Assessment: A Theory Based Study in Competency and Change
      • Scenario Symposium
        • Questioning Scenarios
        • Scenarios: Worth the Effort?
        • Scenarios in Action: Comments and New Directions
        • From Strategic Foresight to Conversations about Alternative and Desired Futures Using Scenarios to Transform the Present
        • Utility and Drawbacks of Scenario Planning in Taiwan and China
        • Scenarios Practices: In Search of Theory
        • An Integral Approach to Scenarios
        • From Foresight to Insight: Using Scenarios Well
        • Windows for the Mind: The Use of Scenario Planning for Enhancing Decision-Making and Managing Uncertainty
        • Stepping into, or through, the Mirror: Embodying Alternative Scenario Patterns
        • Questioning Scenarios
        • Reinventing the Wheel: Common Sense and Responsibility in Futures Studies
        • Scenarios: Process and Outcome
        • Who will Engage in Scenario Planning Ten to Twenty Years from Now?
        • If it Works, Use it: Symposium Response by Graham Molitor
      • Essays
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        • Wendell Bell and Oliver W. Markley: Two Futurists’ Views of the Preferable, the Possible and the Probable
        • Optimizing The Obama Shift
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