The application of foresight to address the challenges of uncertainty and rapid change has grown dramatically in the past decade. In that period, the techniques have been greatly refined and the scope has been broadened to encompass future-oriented technology analysis (FTA) and more recently,...

This paper reflects on the potential of future-oriented analysis (FTA) to address major change and to support decision-makers and other stakeholders in anticipating and dealing with transformations. It does so by critically reflecting on the selected papers for this special issue as well as on...

Foreword -- Preface -- 1. The conventional outlook -- part I. The problem -- 2. How did we get into this mess? How do we get out of it? An overview -- part II. Politics -- 3. Steering system -- 4. Cost of running a society -- 5. Concentration of capital, corporate governance, power -- 6....