Professor Allen Tough: Crucial Questions About the Future

Professor Allen Tough
Futurist, Scientist, Author
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Crucial Questions About the Future
by Dr. Allen Tough
Copyright © 1991, University Press of America

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Crucial Questions About the Future presents readers concerned about the long-range future and their place in it with a series of tough but necessary questions and, refreshingly, offers no pat answers. Instead, what is offered is a structured and reason-bound exploration of the complexities of modern life with which the reader, or the future-studies inclined academic, can provide his or her own answers to these eternal and critical questions.

The first five chapters of Crucial Questions About the Future, by Allen Tough, Copyright © 1991, University Press of America, appear on this website through the kind permission of the author and the publisher. This material is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Please contact the publisher for permission to copy, distribute or reprint. These chapters are available for download in Portable Document Format (PDF). Follow the links below to download individual chapters. Caution: these PDF files are rather large, and will require a high-speed connection, or great patience. Downloading them consumes considerable time and bandwidth.

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Chapter 1 - The Future of Human Civilization
Chapter 2 - What Is Most Important of All?
Chapter 3 - Why Do We Act In Ways That Hurt Our Future?
Chapter 4 - What Will Our Actual Future Turn Out To Be?
Chapter 5 - How Can We Achieve a Satisfactory Future?
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