The Study of Potential Futures (i.e. futurology), is historically practiced by futurists and has been developed since the 1960s. It has for-profit organizations, i.e. enterprises and businesses, as its primary market, however it is increasingly providing services to smaller yet scalable community and societal models as-well as for governmental agencies, perhaps traditionally for sectors unrelated to security (like urbanism, education, the future of work etc.). It is characterized by a pro-peace utopian view, a stress on human intent, a special multi-disciplinarity concentrating on economy and business, technology, some elements of sociology and anthropology, literary criticism, and philosophy, according to its founding fathers’ outlook and associated writings. It also tends to have been influenced by post-modernism. It is most often taught in business schools or part of business programs, such as the Wharton School, Turku’s Finland Futures Research Centre, or the University of Houston. Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies seems to be an exception to the rule as it is part of the department of political studies.
SABOTAGE UNDER COVER OF FOG, BY LT. COL RALPH BOSSHARD
Ralph Bosshard, a retired Swiss lieutenant colonel, served in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Special Monitoring Mission (OSCE SMM) in 2014, where …