Hawaii 2000 : : Continuing Experiment in Anticipatory Democracy / / ed. by Glenn D. Paige, George Chaplin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Ball, Harry V.,; Clarke, Arthur C.,; Collins, Walter K.,; Dator, James A.,; Denney, Reuel,; Dror, Yehezkel,; Fullerton, Charles M.,; Hamilton, Thomas H.,; Hirota, Ralph S.,; Hoshor, John P.,; Ige, Philip K.,; Jungk, Robert,; Kanahele, George S.,; Kato, Hidetoshi,; Krauss, Bob,; Lee, Hahn-Been,; Levine, Aaron,; McDermott, John F.,; McHale, John,; Miwa, Ralph M.,; Neil, J. Meredith,; Noda, Kaoru,; Pasatiempo, Alfred,; Potter, Robert E.,; Rogers, Terence A.,; Studer, Raymond G.,; Theobald, Robert,; Toffler, Alvin,; Yamamura, Douglas S.,
• HerausgeberIn: Chaplin, George,; Paige, Glenn D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]; ©1973
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (502 p.)

Throughout the world people are face-to-face with quality-of-life crises that seem insurmountable—too many people, too little food, shrinking resources, destruction of the natural environment. If man continues to view his future as he has always seen it, as merely an extension of today, and more importantly, as something over which he has no control, his prospects for survival seem dismal.Hawaii 2000 is a by-product of one community's efforts to confront this grim prospect and to generate feasible alternatives for the future. In 1970 the governor of the state of Hawaii, at the behest of several foresighted citizens, established the Governor's Conference on the Year 2000. The editors note that this marked "the first gathering of hundreds of laymen (rather than academicians) to consider alternative futures for the place where they live and work—and where their children are growing up." Noted futurists, writers, scientists, and planners from throughout the world were invited to help the island community define the problems, outline the questions,·and begin to search for answers. Together, laymen and experts sought to creatively anticipate alternative futures for Hawaii, and to plan for the realization of these futures.Hawaii 2000 is the report of this historic conference. It includes addresses by Arthur C. Clarke, Alvin Toffler, Robert Theobald, Yehez­kel Dror, and other noted futurists. It is a heartening and provocative book that tells how the people of one American state began their efforts to design a just, humane, and productive future. It is also a clearly written guidebook providing at least one model for future-oriented people everywhere who seek a way to begin to make their dreams of a better society come true.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Hawaii 2000: Origin of an Idea -- 2. Orientation Toward Futures Thinking -- Overview -- Why Futuristics? -- Today We're Starting Something -- 3. The Conference -- Overview -- Anticipatory Democracy and the Prevention of Future Shock -- The Future Isn't What it Used to Be -- Three Modes of Futures Thinking -- Translating Alternative Futures into Present Action -- Can the Poor People Get a Robot, or just the Rich People? -- 4. Task-Force Reports -- Overview -- Hawaii's People and Life-Styles 2000 -- The Quality of Personal Life 2000 -- The Natural Environment 2000 -- Housing and Transportation 2000 -- Political Decision-Making and the Law 2000 -- The Economy 2000 -- Science and Technology 2000 -- Education 2000 -- The Arts 2000 -- Hawaii and the Pacific Community 2000 -- 5. Neighbor Island Futures -- Overview -- Hawaii (the Big Island) 2000 -- Kauai 2000 -- Maui 2000 -- 6. Conference Observer Responses -- Overview -- A Wholly Unique Venture -- Toward Liberation of the Future -- Need for Complex Human Systems Design -- Toward a Pacific Conference on the Twenty-first Century -- 7. Toward the Futures -- Alternative Hawaiis -- Appendix -- A. Task-force Members -- B. Conference Participants -- Bibliography -- A. Hawaii's Futures -- B. General Futuristics