(9) The effectiveness to be aimed at calls for the applicat… - Fred Polak

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(9) The effectiveness to be aimed at calls for the application and refinement of all conceivable prognostic techniques for adding to knowledge of the future, including those which can be effectively developed over an ever-wider time scale...

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

(10) All objectives meet in the endlessly continued approach to and progress towards the ideal “summum bonum”, though this, the most valuable humanistic good of a full human society, may perhaps never be capable of realization in total perfection.

My own philosophical position, if I may put it that way, is very briefly as follows:

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