Keys to the 21st century / edited by Jérôme Bindé ; with a preface by Koïchiro Matsuura.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-395).

Preface -- Introduction -- Pt. I. Foresight and Uncertainty: What Future for the Future? -- The Arrow of Time and the End of Certainty -- The Nature of the Future -- The Rehabilitation of Futurology -- An African Fable -- An Ethno-technological Analysis of the Interactions between Technology and Society -- Inventing the Future -- Futurology in Action -- The Future in Brief. -- The Determinants of Futurology -- The End of Francis Bacon's Programme? -- Futurology and Global Dialogue -- Futurology: A Self-Criticism -- Pt. II. The Future of the Species and the Future of the Planet: Towards a Natural Contract? -- Stephen Jay Gould -- Edgar Morin -- Population and Migration Patterns in the Twenty-First Century -- Forecasting the Ageing of Populations: China and International Comparisons -- Biotechnologies: Towards a Brave New World? -- Axel Kahn -- M. G. K. Menon -- Jeremy Rifkin -- What Will We Suffer from in the Twenty-First Century? -- Luc Montagnier -- David Heymann -- Chemical Pollution and Invisible Pollution: Prospects and Possible Responses -- Invisible Pollution and the Decline in Male Fertility -- Water Resources to the Year 2025 -- Towards a New Water Culture -- What Prospects for Food Security in the Developing Countries in 2050? -- Population Dynamics and Food Security: What Strategy for the Twenty-First Century? -- Energy Scenarios for the Year 2000 and Beyond -- Energy in the Twenty-First Century -- The Future of Space Exploration -- Humanizing Space -- Pt. III. The New Territories of Culture - Pluralism and Education: Towards a Cultural Contract? -- The New Territories of Culture: Globalization, Cultural Uncertainty and Violence -- Towards Hybrid Cultures? -- Evolving Conceptions of the Heritage -- The Heritage and Future Generations -- What Future for Minority Languages and Threatened Languages? -- Languages: A Heritage to be Preserved -- What Future for Literature? -- Philippe Sollers -- Vassilis Vassilikos -- Ramakanta Rath -- What Passions in the Twenty-First Century? -- Theodore Zeldin -- Jean-Didier Vincent -- Technology, Creativity and Passion -- Art, Science and Technology in the Twenty-First Century -- New Robotics and Collective Intelligence -- The Reform of Thinking and Education in the Twenty-First Century -- Distance Education, New Technologies and New Learning Methods -- Lifelong Education for All and a Curriculum for the Twenty-First Century -- Information, Networks and Identities -- Manuel Castells -- Joel de Rosnay -- The Immaterial, Cyberspace and the Clone: Have We Ceased to be Real? -- The Generalized Communication Society -- What Future for the Media? -- Pt. IV. Learning to Live Together: Towards a New Social Contract? -- What Democracy for the Future? -- Elikia M'Bokolo, Alain Touraine, Michael Walzer -- What Future for Human Rights? -- Federico Mayor -- Mary Robinson -- Pierre Sane -- Mireille Delmas-Marty -- Tomorrow, Women -- Hele Beji -- Gertrude Mongella -- Nicole Morgan -- Nilufer Gole -- Ndioro Ndiaye -- Gloria Beatriz Durand Soria -- An Action Plan for the Future -- Childhood in the Twenty-First Century: Trends and Prospects -- Work and Time in the Twenty-First Century -- The Work Society and the New Uses of Time -- Towards Urban Apartheid? -- Towards a Third Age for the City? -- Globalization, Technology and Cities: What Prospects for the Twenty-First Century? -- The Testament of Utopia -- New Utopias of the Twenty-First Century -- Pt. V. The World and Globalization: Towards an Ethical Contract? -- Is Globalization a Trap? -- A New Social Contract for a New Phase of Globalization -- What Development for the Twenty-First Century? -- Participatory Development and the Fight against Poverty -- Conflict Prevention and Resolution: The Keys to the Future -- The Economy of the Future in Africa -- Prepared for the Twenty-First Century? -- Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Jacques Attali -- Bibliography.

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