Journal article
Deconstructing the year 2000
Futures, Vol.32(1), pp.7-15
2000
Abstract
Like death, the West has become ubiquitous. But will hegemony continue and are there any signals of possible transformation from within and without? Four alternatives for the West are developed. (1) A dramatic ageing population leading to a future where immigrants are required for survival, however, once in the holy land of Disney, multiculturalism may make porous the West itself. (2) Genocide against the Other, resisting internal transformative processes and (3) the Artificial Society, wherein diversity and the Other are pushed back since high productivity can be achieved through the new information and genetic technologies, that is, through reductionist science and linear economic progress. While the latter technocratic scenario is most likely, there are possibilities that a more multicultural, gaian, communicative, globalist future may emerge. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Details
- Title
- Deconstructing the year 2000
- Authors
- Sohail Inayatullah (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
- Publication details
- Futures, Vol.32(1), pp.7-15
- Publisher
- Pergamon
- Date published
- 2000
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0016-3287(99)00062-2
- ISSN
- 0016-3287
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99448934202621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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