Facing the Future

Notes on the Culture of Politics.- 1. Exhausted Energy.- The Rise and Fall in Public Concern.- 2. Politics as the Fiduciary of Future Generations.- The Role of the Political Parties.- 3. Fear of the Future: Cultural Survival.- Crisis Among the Large Organizations.- On the Way to an Information Society.- 4. What Kinds of Shifts in Value will we have to Reckon with?.- The Development of an Information Society.- 5. An Intelligence Aid, But Not Intelligent.- The Computer.- 6. Thinking in Black and White Terms is Not the Answer.- The Expansion of the New Technology.- 7. Tool Age of the Future.- Interrelated Systems.- 8. The Rapid Growth in the Range of Applications.- Accepting the New Technology.- 9. Detente for the Social Environment Conflict?.- Integrated Technology.- 10. A New Wave of Independence.- A Flexible Work World.- 11. The Broad Field of the Information Society.- The Service Industries.- Old Values — A New Order.- 12. New Vitality for Old Values?.- Carrying Enlightenment to Completion.- 13. Decreasing Demands on the Environment Means Making Sacrifices.- What Can We Do? What Should We Do?.- 14. Social Benefits at the Expense of Our Future Security.- The Crisis of the Welfare Colossus.- 15. Rediscovering the Human Factor.- In Defense of a New Social and Economic Policy for Modern Society.- 16. A New Look at an Old Problem.- The Economy and the Government.- 17. More than Just a Vision?.- A Society of Reconciliation.- Europe: Little Big Continent.- 18. Somehow Too Big and Too Small.- What is Europe’s Real Position?.- 19. Focusing Our Forces on the Facts.- The Many Faces of Europe.- 20. Reconciliation in the Midst of Contention.- Politics Between East and West.