TY - BOOK AU - Bindé,Jérôme TI - Keys to the 21st century SN - 9231036467 AV - CB161. C5413 2001 U1 - 303.490905 PY - 2001/// CY - New York, Paris PB - Berghahn Books, UNESCO KW - Twenty-first century KW - Forecasts N1 - 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 ER -