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Keys to the 21st century / edited by Jérôme Bindé ; with a preface by Koïchiro Matsuura.
- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Clés du XXIe siècle. English.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Twenty-first century--Forecasts.
- Twenty-first century.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 395 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Keys to the twenty-first century
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books ; Paris : UNESCO, 2001.
- Summary:
- Since September 1997, UNESCO's Analysis and Forecasting Office has been arranging a series of "Twenty-First Century Talks," each of which brings together two or three leading scientists, intellectuals, creators or decision-makers from all parts of the world. The Office also organized the first "Twenty-First Century Dialogues" in September 1998, in which 60 international participants took part in discussions on the general theme of "Will the Twenty-First Century Take Place?" This text represents an anthology of the contributions made to these future-oriented discussions, up to the ninth session of the "Talks" held in June 1999. Topics include population, biotechnologies, pollution, energy, the food supply, culture, pluralism, education, democracy, human rights, women, childhood, work, urban living, globalization, poverty, and human conflicts. No subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
- Contents:
- Part I Foresight and Uncertainty: What Future for the Future?
- A Plurality of Futures? 3
- The Arrow of Time and the End of Certainty / Ilya Prigogine 4
- What Future for the Future? 10
- The Nature of the Future / Hugues de Jouvenel 12
- The Rehabilitation of Futurology / Colin Blackman 14
- An African Fable / Souleymane Bachir Diagne 16
- An Ethno-technological Analysis of the Interactions between Technology and Society / Thierry Gaudin 19
- Inventing the Future / Pentti Malaska 21
- Futurology in Action / Eleonora Masini Barbieri 23
- The Future in Brief ... / Peter Mettler 24
- The Determinants of Futurology / Jesus Moneo 26
- The End of Francis Bacon's Programme? / Francisco Sagasti 27
- Futurology and Global Dialogue / Tony Stevenson 29
- Futurology: A Self-Criticism / Kimon Valaskakis 31
- Part II The Future of the Species and the Future of the Planet: Towards a Natural Contract?
- What Future for the Human Species? 35
- Stephen Jay Gould 36
- Edgar Morin 42
- Population: From Explosion to Implosion? 47
- Population and Migration Patterns in the Twenty-First Century / Herve Le Bras 48
- Forecasting the Ageing of Populations: China and International Comparisons / Zeng Yi 51
- Biotechnologies: Towards a Brave New World? 54
- Axel Kahn 55
- M.G.K. Menon 57
- Jeremy Rifkin 60
- What Will We Suffer from in the Twenty-First Century? 63
- Luc Montagnier 64
- David Heymann 69
- Chemical Pollution and Invisible Pollution 73
- Chemical Pollution and Invisible Pollution: Prospects and Possible Responses / Mohamed Larbi Bouguerra 74
- Invisible Pollution and the Decline in Male Fertility / Niels Skakkebaek 79
- Will Water Continue to Flow as Freely? 83
- Water Resources to the Year 2025 / Igor Shiklomanov 84
- Towards a New Water Culture / Jean Margat 87
- Will There be Enough Food for Everybody? 90
- What Prospects for Food Security in the Developing Countries in 2050? / Philippe Collomb 91
- Population Dynamics and Food Security: What Strategy for the Twenty-First Century? / Daniel Mpembele Sala-Diakanda 105
- Energy Alternatives 109
- Energy Scenarios for the Year 2020 and Beyond / Benjamin Dessus 110
- Energy in the Twenty-First Century / Amulya Reddy 115
- What Future in Space? 119
- The Future of Space Exploration / Cheick Modibo Diarra 120
- Humanizing Space / Andre Lebeau 124
- Part III The New Territories of Culture - Pluralism and Education: Towards a Cultural Contract?
- Towards a Clash of Cultures or Cultural Hybridization? 135
- The New Territories of Culture: Globalization, Cultural Uncertainty and Violence / Arjun Appadurai 136
- Towards Hybrid Cultures? / Nestor Garcia Canclini 139
- What Future for the Heritage? 145
- Evolving Conceptions of the Heritage / Martine Remond-Gouilloud 147
- The Heritage and Future Generations / Francois Ost 152
- What Future for Languages in the Twenty-First Century? 159
- What Future for Minority Languages and Threatened Languages? / Stephen Wurm 160
- Languages: A Heritage to be Preserved / Laurent Sagart 164
- What Future for Literature? 169
- Philippe Sollers 170
- Vassilis Vassilikos 174
- Ramakanta Rath 177
- What Passions in the Twenty-First Century? 180
- Theodore Zeldin 182
- Jean-Didier Vincent 185
- The Future of the Visual Arts 188
- Technology, Creativity and Passion / Bill Viola 189
- Art, Science and Technology in the Twenty-First Century / Otto Piene 193
- Artificial Intelligence 196
- New Robotics and Collective Intelligence / Jean-Louis Deneubourg 197
- The New Frontiers of Education 200
- The Reform of Thinking and Education in the Twenty-First Century / Edgar Morin 202
- Distance Education, New Technologies and New Learning Methods / Goery Delacote 206
- Lifelong Education for All and a Curriculum for the Twenty-First Century / Roberto Carneiro 210
- Information, Networks and Identities 214
- Manuel Castells 215
- Joel de Rosnay 219
- Towards a Society of the Immaterial? 224
- The Immaterial, Cyberspace and the Clone: Have We Ceased to be Real? / Jean Baudrillard 225
- The Generalized Communication Society / Gianni Vattimo 230
- What Future for the Media? / Hisanori Isomura 234
- Part IV Learning to Live Together: Towards a New Social Contract?
- What Democracy for the Future? 239
- Elikia M'Bokolo, Alain Touraine, Michael Walzer 240
- What Future for Human Rights? 255
- Federico Mayor 257
- Mary Robinson 263
- Pierre Sane 271
- Mireille Delmas-Marty 276
- Tomorrow, Women 284
- Hele Beji 286
- Gertrude Mongella 289
- Nicole Morgan 291
- Nilufer Gole 293
- Ndioro Ndiaye 295
- Gloria Beatriz Durand Soria 297
- What Childhood in the Twenty-First Century? 300
- An Action Plan for the Future / Craig Kielburger 301
- Childhood in the Twenty-First Century: Trends and Prospects / Vitit Muntarbhorn 304
- The Future of Work and the Future of Time 308
- Work and Time in the Twenty-First Century / Richard Sennett 309
- The Work Society and the New Uses of Time / Roger Sue 312
- Towards Urban Apartheid or a Third Age for the City? 317
- Towards Urban Apartheid? / Jerome Binde 318
- Towards a Third Age for the City? / Christian de Portzamparc 325
- Globalization, Technology and Cities: What Prospects for the Twenty-First Century? / Saskia Sassen 329
- The End of Utopia or the Birth of New Utopias? 332
- The Testament of Utopia / Eduardo Portella 333
- New Utopias of the Twenty-First Century / Jean-Joseph Goux 337
- Part V The World and Globalization: Towards an Ethical Contract?
- Globalization and the 'Third Industrial Revolution' 347
- Is Globalization a Trap? / Hans-Peter Martin 348
- A New Social Contract for a New Phase of Globalization / Ethan Kapstein 352
- Towards a New Form of Development and the End of Poverty? 359
- What Development for the Twenty-First Century? / Lord Desai 360
- Participatory Development and the Fight against Poverty / Michel Azcueta 363
- Africa, Continent of the Future? 365
- Conflict Prevention and Resolution: The Keys to the Future / Amadou Toumani Toure 366
- The Economy of the Future in Africa / Gertrude Mongella 372
- Prepared for the Twenty-First Century? 375
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Jacques Attali 377.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-395).
- ISBN:
- 1571814019
- 1571814027
- 9231036467
- OCLC:
- 47282961
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