The future as seen in 1976
World Future Studies Federation WFSF Newsletter, February 1976, p. 1-2
At the door of the XXI century
Giorgio Nebbia, Università di Bari
In the past decades the millenarian year 2000 has been used as a reference target when looking at the future; such a psychological barrier has lessened our moral commitment while this magic year is approaching. Although myself and many of my age may not reach that day, 31 December 1999, the children born this year 1976 will spend most of their lives in the XXI century; the decision to build new dams or new nuclear power plants, that excite so many managers and politicians these days, will influence the lives of the people in the next century in a decisive, unique and dramatic way. Our depletion of oil resources, our attack on the plant cover of the planet, our price system for Third World commodities, will cause political, economic and social tensions that will permeate a large part of the forthcoming century.
The mature, western, Judeo-Christian, white society seems to have lost the capacity to prevent, to hope, to foresee; the multiplication of societies, centers, courses, departments of future studies seems a futile reply to our inability to look at the future in broad and global terms, with an open imagination.
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