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The Future Of The Future JOHN McHALE GEORGE BRAZILLER / NEW YORK Copyright © 1969 by JouN McHans All rights reserved For information address the publisher George Brazller, Inc. One Park Avenue ‘New York, N. ¥. 10016 First Printing Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 69-15827 ates of America Printed in the United St ‘The author and publisher wish to thank the following for permission to reprint certain materials included in this book from the books and periodicals listed below ‘The American Sociologist—"The Sociologist and the Study of the Future” by Henry Winthrop. Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill, May, 1968. ‘Adetbert Ames, Jr.—Institute for Associated Research, Hanover, N.HL ‘Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scienoes—"A "New Orientation in American Government” by Bertram M. Gross and Michael Springer, Syracuse, N.Y., May, 1967, George W. Ball—From an article appearing in Time, November 24, 1967. Basic Books, Inc-—The Art of Conjecture by Bertrand de Jouvenel. New York, 1967 Bodminster Press, Inc.—Language and Literature in Society by Hugh D. Duncan. Totowa, NI, 1961 Bollingen Foundation—The Myzh of the Eternal Return by Mircea Eliade, Bollingen Series XLIV. New York, 1954. George Brazller, Inc —“Subjective Time” by Tohn Cohen, from The Voices (of Time edited by J. T. Fraser. New York, 1966. ‘Arnold Buchhol2—Draft manuscript. Germany, 1958 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists—"The Speed of Change” by Ritchie Calder. December, 1965 Center Diary: 17, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions—"Fu- turibles: Innovation vs, Stability” by Jobn Wilkinson. Santa Barbara, Calif, 1967 Christian Science Monitor—Eaitorial by Robert C. Cowen. Boston, Mass February, 1968, Columbia University Prest—Little Science, Big Science by Derek J. de Solla Price. New York, 1963, Current—"The Future as Present Expectation” by Daniel Bell. 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