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About a year-and-a-half ago, I shared my excitement about being asked to join Richard Slaughter and co-edit the Knowledge Base of Futures Studies 2020, the third entry in the KBFS series. Now I’m even more excited to share that we’re done, and that on Friday July 3rd we’re having a little APF-hosted launch party. APF is publishing the work and offering it as a gift for members (nice perk!). It will be $29.95 for the general oublic
It’s a members-only thing, and we’re going to share some observation on what we learned – I will share my observations in a blog post next week (can’t spoil the surprise today). What I can say is that we have gathered together an amazing collection of 31 articles capturing a representative set of excellent futures work since the last update in 2005. The goal of the KBFS project is to maintain an ongoing collection of excellent futures work over time.
As a founding member and first Board Chair of APF, I am so pleased to see the association taking an active role in promoting good futures work. This was certainly part of the founding group’s intention – to promote the good work that futurists are doing! And I should add that Alireza Hejazi, APF webmaster extraordinaire, and Jay Gary, APF Chair, really stepped up to help us get this across the finish line.
Of course, the key to such a project is having good work to share in the first place. We owe a tremendous thanks to the 31 contributing authors for donating their time and effort to share their work with us. The hardest part of the project for me was only being able to include a small set of work and not being able to include more. Even being tough like this, we still have over 500 pages of content for your reading pleasure. – Andy Hines
Andy, fantastic presentation today on the Knowledge Base of Futures Studies 2020. Loved your top 10 things you learned in gathering this landmark volume for the 2020s.The book link for the public is:
https://www.apf.org/store/viewproduct.aspx?id=16603386