Tutorial 1: Futures in a Nutshell
-- a university of arizona course on methods and approaches for studying the future

Just what are futures studies all about. While there are various reasons people do futures studies, one of the most useful and most often used is to better understand how to make today's decisions. Here are two summaries of futures -- one very short and one extended.
Quick Overview
A short and really short version of futures studies.
 
An extended "roadmap"
This map provides expands the quick overview content (above) and further describes a futures study and gives examples of techniques. This the same as tutorial 3 - Developing a futures study.
 
What is a good futurist?
A short listing of characteristics of a good futurist.
 
Futures overview
This takes you to a page of links where you can look at futures studies from a wider perspective (the quick overview and roadmap are listed here as well).
 
Taking a more extended approach
Approaches to futures studies
Using graphic examples to uderstantand available techniques
Short course on futures

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Prepared by Roger L. Caldwell