A futures research outline of a post-modern idea of progress |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8558, Japan;2. Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8558, Japan;3. Okayama Kanariya Gakuen, Auditory Center for Hearing Impaired Children, 321-102, Nisifurumatsu, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-0927, Japan;4. Health Policy Bureau, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, 1-2-2 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8916, Japan;5. Shinkurasiki Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic, 3-120-1 Shinkurashikiekimae, Kurashiki-shi, Okayama 710-0253, Japan;1. School of Energy and Power Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China;2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China;3. School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen 361000, China;1. Department of Radiology, Royal Free London NHS Trust, London, Pond Street, London, NW3 2QJ, UK;2. Department of Radiology, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, Combe Park, Bath, BA1 3NG, UK;3. Department of Respiratory Medicine, University College London, London, NW1 2BU, UK;4. Centre for Medical Image Computing, University College London, London, NW1 2BU, UK;5. Department of Radiology, Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust, Southmead Road, Bristol, BS10 5NB, UK;6. Department of Radiology, The Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust London, SW3 6NP, UK;7. Department of Radiology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds General Infirmary, Great George Street, Leeds, LS1 3EX, UK;8. Department of Radiology, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Freeman Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE7 7DN, UK;9. Department of Radiology, University College London Hospital, 235 Euston Road, London NW1 2BU, UK;1. Department of Chemical and Life Science Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23220, United States;2. Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23220, United States;3. Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23220, United States;4. Department of Electrical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23220, United States;1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy;2. Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy;3. Psychology Department, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy;1. Université de Lorraine, ERPI, EA 3767, F-54000 Nancy, France;2. Department of Periodontology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Lorraine, 54000 Nancy, France;3. UMR-S1116, University of Lorraine, 54000 Nancy, France;4. School of Surgery Nancy-Lorraine, University of Lorraine, 54505 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France |
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| Abstract: | Post-modernity in the social sciences may be recognised as an intellectual attitude of “anything goes” or “end of everything characterising the modernity”. At the extreme it seems that post-modern deconstruction, not aiming at anything, dissolves everything into meaningless residuals of merely individual peculiarity. The very idea of progress is one of the things not to be sustained by the intellectual forces of deconstruction. The author agrees on the necessity of de-constructing the prevailing modern idea of progress in the sense of revealing the pitfalls of modernity, but maintaining the idea of progress beyond modernity and recognising sustainable development as an intellectual and ethical challenge in this respect. To meet the challenge, futurology is needed to provide perceptional knowledge of reality whereby the whole field of scientific enquiry needs to be generalised. A methodological approach of futures research called dialectical deconstruction is outlined. |
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