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(1) I think about the future, therefore I am and can be a human being;

Fred Polak

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Frederik Lodewijk Polak (May 21, 1907 – September 17, 1985) was a Dutch sociologist, politician and futurist. He was one of the Dutch founding fathers of futures studies, perhaps best known in the field for theorising the central role of imagined alternative futures in his classic work The Image of the Future.

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Alternative Names: Fred Lodewijk Polak • Frederik Lodewijk Polak • Fred L. Polak

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(6) For this purpose everyone, choosing in complete freedom and on his own responsibility, must be able and permitted to utilize all the philosophical and scientific thought models useful for this vital choice;

(7) Thought models, or models of the future, are useful insofar as they can reasonably contribute towards the optimum realization of man’s future-directed wishes and actions in a given situation or period;

Once he (man) became conscious of creating images of the future, he became a participant in the process of creating this future.

(1) I think about the future, therefore I am and can be a human being; - Fred Polak

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