Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. Acknowledgments VII
4. 1. Introduction
5. Hawaii 2000: Origin of an Idea 1
6. 2. Orientation Toward Futures Thinking
7. Overview 9
8. Why Futuristics? 20
9. Today We're Starting Something 40
10. 3. The Conference
11. Overview 58
12. Anticipatory Democracy and the Prevention of Future Shock 74
13. The Future Isn't What it Used to Be 79
14. Three Modes of Futures Thinking 101
15. Translating Alternative Futures into Present Action 120
16. Can the Poor People Get a Robot, or just the Rich People? 133
17. 4. Task-Force Reports
18. Overview 136
19. Hawaii's People and Life-Styles 2000 141
20. The Quality of Personal Life 2000 162
21. The Natural Environment 2000 176
22. Housing and Transportation 2000 197
23. Political Decision-Making and the Law 2000 214
24. The Economy 2000 234
25. Science and Technology 2000 251
26. Education 2000 290
27. The Arts 2000 311
28. Hawaii and the Pacific Community 2000 334
29. 5. Neighbor Island Futures
30. Overview 356
31. Hawaii (the Big Island) 2000 359
32. Kauai 2000 377
33. Maui 2000 395
34. 6. Conference Observer Responses
35. Overview 408
36. A Wholly Unique Venture 410
37. Toward Liberation of the Future 423
38. Need for Complex Human Systems Design 432
39. Toward a Pacific Conference on the Twenty-first Century 445
40. 7. Toward the Futures
41. Alternative Hawaiis 455
42. Appendix
43. A. Task-force Members 473
44. B. Conference Participants 483
45. Bibliography
46. A. Hawaii's Futures 489
47. B. General Futuristics 490