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| Phil Gyford on 31 Jan 2001 14:19:26 -0000 |
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| [Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Global Trends 2015 |
At 9:15 am -0500 2001-01-18, Alan Sondheim wrote: >In the 1970s I taught a course in 'futurology' at the Rhode Island School >of Design; called The Year 3000, we used everything from extrapolation >through scenario through delphi methodology. The course was developed >after Forrester, Club of Rome, RIO, etc. When the Carter report towards >the year 2000 appeared, that was also incorporated. Remember that Reagan >threw it out. In case anyone's interested, there's a very similar Masters at the University of Houston-Clear Lake which began around the same time. I recently graduated and on the whole would recommend it (although I can't say the same for Houston/Clear Lake itself). They also do an intensive summer course - two six week sessions in successive years plus work back home - with many people travelling there from around the world. The course: http://www.cl.uh.edu/futureweb/ Some examples of stuff I did there: http://www.gyford.com/phil/uhcl/ -- phil {AT} gyford.com http://www.gyford.com tel: +44 (0)1376 513238 icq: 3794783 _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold {AT} nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold
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