Twenty-three years later, Boucher published an article titled "The futures examination" in
Futures Research Quarterly, Winter 2000, pp, 5-10. He started off by commenting that
when twenty-two people were asked, by the editor, Harold Linstone, to contribute essays
for a special issue of the journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change (August
1989) devoted to developing a new agenda for forecasting, "there is not a single reference
to the 'old' agenda…to which some of the same authors had contributed. Accordingly
there is not a single word on the progress that had been made on that agenda in the
preceding 12 years