Futures studies is the systematic study of possible, probable and
preferable futures including the worldviews and myths that underlie each
future. In the last fifty or so years, the study of the future has moved
from predicting the future to mapping alternative futures to shaping
desired futures, both at external collective levels and inner individual
levels (Masini 1993; Bell 1996; Amara 1981; Sardar 1999; Inayatullah