Papers by Dr. Jim Dator
Jim Dator is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Director of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Vision Statement

Activities of the HRCFS

The HRCFS and Futures Studies at the University of Hawaii

Futures Studies at UH beyond the MA

HRCFS and the World Futures Studies Federation

HRCFS and International Space University

Other activities of the HRCFS

Manoa Journal of Fried and Half Fried Ideas (about the future...)
 
Jim Dator's Vitae
short version
long version

Papers by Jim Dator

Papers by Prominent Futurists

Futures Syllabi

Past and Present Futures Folks

Links to Futures Groups

Futures Discussion Group

Dissertations by Futures Students

Click below to access Jim Dator's papers by category

Artificiality
Courts and Law
Culture
Education
Futures Studies
Governance
Hawaii
Japan and Korea
Space
Work and Unions
Other
Book Reviews

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Artificiality

What's Un-Common About Comm-Unities? Past, Present, and Future, 1998 / pdf

Responsible For Your Rose, 1997 / pdf

Assuming "Responsibility for our Rose" 2002

As If I Virtually Said This to Pepsi Executives During a Futures Discussion at their Headquarters, 1997 / pdf

Every M.U.D. is an allusion for death, 1996 / pdf

Coming, Ready Or Not: The World We Are Leaving Future Generations, and Our Responsibility Towards Them, 1995 / pdf

Even Though Oxygen Is Flowing, the Plastic Bag May Not Inflate: Normalcy, Survival, and Transformation of Future Generations, 1994 / pdf

Dogs Don't Bark At Parked Cars, 1993 / pdf

Surfing the Tsunamis of Change, 1992 / pdf

I Want My ITV, 1991 / pdf

Selling Chips to Robots: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Virtual Realities, 1990 / pdf

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Courts and Law

Judicial Governance of the Long Blur, 2001 / pdf

From "Parking" to " When the Courts of Justice are Overgrown with Grass", 2000 / pdf

Judiciaries, Futures of US State, 1996/ pdf

Dowager Revisited,1994 / (only pdf format available)

American State Courts, Five Tsunamis, & Four Alternative Futures, 1993 / pdf

The Dancing Judicial Zen Masters: How many judges does it take to see the future?, 1993 / pdf

Notes on "Social Policy Implications" for the Panel Discussion on Biotechnology and the Courts, "To Be or Not To Be", 1992 / pdf

Teleworking Justice - a Concept Paper, 1992 / pdf

Culturally-Appropriate Dispute Resolution Techniques and the Formal Judicial System in Hawaii, 1991 / pdf

Inventing the Future of Courts and Courts of the Future: A Futurist's Perspective, 1991 / pdf

When Crime Doesn't Pay -- Enough, 1991 / pdf

20 Minutes Into the Future, 1989 / pdf

Virginia Courts, 1987 / pdf

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Culture

Futures of Identity, Racism, and Diversity, 2003 / pdf

Families, Communities, and Futures, 1994 / pdf

Does Religion Have a Future? 1994 / pdf

Can Families Have a Future in America? 1992 / pdf

Looking for Europe From the Outside, 1991 / pdf

Initial Thoughts on the Futures of Cultures and Communication, 1990 / pdf

Some Futures for Cultures, 1986 / pdf

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Education

Campus Futures, 2006

Universities without Quality and Quality without Universities, 2004

Visions, Values, Technologies, and Schools, 2002 / pdf

A simple question to the graduates, 2001 / pdf

Past and Future of the University of Hawaii, 1999

The Futures of Universities: Ivied Halls, Virtual Malls, or Theme Parks? 1998 / pdf

Miner Thoughts, 1998 / pdf

In Whose Service is Perfect Freedom, 1996 / pdf

The College Classroom of the Year 2010, 1993 / pdf

Global Villages, Local Villages, and the Futures of Tertiary Education, 1992 / pdf

Is There a Future for Public Education in Hawaii? 1991 / pdf

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Futures Studies

Alternative futures for K-Waves

Reading history: comment on Chenoweth and Feitelson (Subscription may be necessary to access the full text)

Futures Research and Decision Making: Examples and Reflections, 2001 / pdf

Forecasts useful, morally right: An 'if-then' contingency statement can help society make the best choices for future generations, 2000 / pdf

Y2K - A Futurist's Dream, 1999/ pdf

From Tsunamis to Long Waves and Back, 1999 / pdf

The Future Lies Behind: Thirty Years of Teaching Futures Studies, 1998 / pdf

A Fish In and Out of Water, 1996 / pdf

Foreword: Introduction to Richard Slaughter's, The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies, 1996 / pdf

How to Conduct a Futures Visioning Workshop, 1994 / pdf

From Future Workshops to Envisioning Alternative Futures, 1993/ pdf

Futures Studies As Applied Knowledge, 1993 / pdf

Women In Futures Studies and Women's Visions of the Futures -- One Man's Tentative View, 1992 / pdf

The Future Has a Long Fuse, 1991 / pdf

Futures Research: A Second Look, And Yet Another Look Again, 1972 / pdf

Aesthetics and Futures Studies, 1971 / pdf

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Governance

Future Generations: They Are Our Conscience, 1999 / pdf

What Futures for Governance?, 1998 / pdf

Newt's Sweet Dreams, 1995/ pdf

The New World Economic Order: Implications for Insular Areas, 1994 / pdf

Emerging Trends in Democratic Participation: The Many Faces of Democracy, 1992 / pdf

Bright Future for Democracy? 1992 / pdf

US Environmental Protection Agency: Intro Report on Pacific Islands Sea Level Rise, 1989 / pdf

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 Hawaii

Hawaii Legislators as Applied Futurists, 2001 / pdf

"Directions for the 21 Century" - Keynote Address to the Hawaiian Lifeguard Association, 2000 / pdf

Maryknoll High School - "Pono", 2000 / pdf

Hawaii as a Starving Donkey, 1999 / pdf

Four Alternative Futures for Hawaii, 1999 / pdf

We Were Diverted, Not Warned, 1998 / pdf

Hawaii in 100 Years: Robots and Wealthy Outsiders, 1998 / pdf

What Future for Media in Hawaii, 1995 / pdf

Hawaiian Sovereignty: A Futurist's Perspective, 1994 / pdf

Introduction to Ira Rohter's Green Hawaii, 1992 / pdf

The 90s--the Make or Break Decade, 1990 / pdf

Hawaii Girl Scouts - "Pluralism", 1985" / pdf

Talk to the Hawaii Legislature, 1970 / pdf

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Japan and Korea

Four .pdf articles (in Korean) from Dator's work with the Korean government, 2006, one, two, three, four

Korea as the wave of a future: The emerging Dream Society of icons and aesthetic experience / pdf

Futures of Japan--Then and Now, 2003 / pdf

Can we see the US of the Year 2230 in the Japan of 1992? / pdf

Forget Pearl Harbor! Remember the Maine! 1991 / pdf

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Space

Designing Governance Systems for Mars, 2004 / pdf

Space Settlements and New Forms of Governance, 1995/2004 / pdf

Some in Power, Some in Pain: a Symphonic Meditation on Humanity and Space, 2002 / pdf

UH Students Settle Mars!...and Other Adventures from the Future, 1998 / pdf

Why Should We Care About Fossils on Mars? What Has a Martian Ever Done For Me? 1997 / pdf

Earth Analogs for Human Space Exploration and Settlement, 1995 / pdf

Social Science and Space Programs, 1995 / pdf

Thinking About Space Futures, Then, Now, and Tomorrow, 1995 / pdf

Politics Is Everything, 1995 / pdf

Space, the Final Frontier? Or the Finished Frontier? 1995 / pdf

What Has Posterity Ever Done For Me? 1995 / pdf
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Work and Unions

Mortgage Banking for the New American Empire, and other futures, 2003 / pdf

The Last Supper of the Dinosaurs, 2000 / pdf

Bright future for unions? 1997 / pdf

A Labor of Love and Labor, 1996 / pdf

Linkages Between Work and Education? 1994 / pdf

Three True Stories and Their (Possible) Moral for the Future of UH Libraries and Librarians, 1993 / pdf

Literacy and the Workplace 2000, 1992 / pdf

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Other

The Day "America" Changed for the World, 2003 /pdf

Letter to Kevin Kelly, Re: Mandel, 1997 / pdf

Who Will Design the Future From Owl Creek Bridge? 1995 / pdf

My World--and Welcome to It!: A Song for Dove, Hawk, and Unaccompanied Optimist, 1973 (only pdf format available)

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Book Reviews

Review of Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures: A Ziauddin Sardar Reader, 2004 / pdf

Review of Medieval futures: Attitudes to the future in the Middle Ages, 2003 / pdf

Review of From Imperial Myth to Democracy: Japan's Two Constitutions, 1889-2002, 2002 / pdf

Review of The Future Of Tradition: Customary Law, Common Law, And Legal Pluralism, 2000 / pdf

Review of Virginia Postrel. 1998. The Future and its Enemies: The growing conflict over creativity, enterprise, and progress, 1998 / pdf

Review of Technology and Global Change, 1998 / pdf

Frail Visions: A Review of Utopistics, 1998 / pdf

Review of Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment, 1997 / pdf

Review of Voyager Tales: Personal Views of the Grand Tour, 1997 / pdf

Review of Paths of Fire: An Anthropologists Inquiry Into Western Technology, 1996 / pdf

Review of Quantum Politics, Applying Quantum Theory to Political Phenomenon, 1991 / pdf

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