March 1978
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3 Reads
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9 Citations
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
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March 1978
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3 Reads
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9 Citations
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
December 1977
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5 Reads
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4 Citations
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
May 1977
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5 Reads
The Hastings Center Report
... • Foresight is seen as a threat to the existing order [9]; distracting, disturbing, disruptive [41]; and managerial competence is equated with knowing and certainty and the future is uncertain [42] • "New information is almost invariably upsetting to routines and expectancies and, thereby, threatening to established images of competence" [43] • As foresight can be thought of as a device for "disturbing the present" [44], resistance is not the result of stupidity or venality of individuals, but rather is inherent to social systems [45] Foresight is viewed as intangible ...
December 1977
Technological Forecasting and Social Change