‘There is no consensus on important problems, no shared goals or standards of
adequacy, and no body of knowledge’.
! ‘Futures studies is disintegrating and proliferating into subfields’.
! ‘The futures field is flooded with internecine hostility and divided into imperialistic
and intellectually isolated groups’.
! ‘Some futurists are close-minded and undisciplined, and ignore evidence that challenges
their politics’.
! ‘We have failed to tackle the major empirical and moral problems confronting
humankind’.
! ‘Many futurists are ideological and fanatical, consumed by advocacy and selfrighteousness’.
! ‘We are overly concerned with domestic issues while largely ignoring world
events’.
! ‘Both academic administrators and the public have a low regard for futures studies’.
! ‘Works in the futures field are incoherent, poorly written, arcane, mystifying,
and obscure’.
! ‘There is no consensus and no scientific unity’.
! ‘University programs in futures studies attract the academically weakest graduate
students’.
! ‘There has been no progress in the futures field, only changes in fashion and
mere taste’.
! ‘Writings in futures studies are boring’