Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Abstract
Includes a response by Eileen D. Cooke. What might happen to government in the next ten to twenty-five years?
I will review two approaches to the future and the trends they suggest,
and three conditions which could affect the direction of those trends and
their impact on the government. My approach will be to examine two views
of the future, one from the perspective of the federal budget, the other from
the images provided by an overview of major futurist works. Both approaches
raise questions about how the agenda of the government will be
shaped. The following sections review : ( 1
) activities to place on the institutional
agenda the discussion of a shift in our societal paradigm and its implications
for policy, (2) the growing interest within government for a more
systematic consideration of the future, and (3) trends in citizen participation.published or submitted for publicatio
