publication archive

works by Jim Dator

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artificiality Δ

Assuming "Responsibility for our Rose" 02002 (pdf)
What's Un-Common About Comm-Unities? Past, Present, and Future, 01998 (pdf)
Responsible For Your Rose, 01997 (pdf)
As If I Virtually Said This to Pepsi Executives During a Futures Discussion at their Headquarters, 01997 (pdf)
Every M.U.D. is an allusion for death, 01996 (pdf)
Coming, Ready Or Not: The World We Are Leaving Future Generations, and Our Responsibility Towards Them, 01995 (pdf)
Even Though Oxygen Is Flowing, the Plastic Bag May Not Inflate: Normalcy, Survival, and Transformation of Future Generations, 01994 (pdf)
Dogs Don't Bark At Parked Cars, 01993 (pdf)
Surfing the Tsunamis of Change, 01992 (pdf)
I Want My ITV, 01991 (pdf)
Selling Chips to Robots: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Virtual Realities, 01990 (pdf)

courts and law Δ

Judicial Governance of the Long Blur, 02001 (pdf)
From "Parking" to " When the Courts of Justice are Overgrown with Grass", 02000 (pdf)
Judiciaries, Futures of US State, 01996 (pdf)
Dowager Revisited, 01994 (pdf)
American State Courts, Five Tsunamis, & Four Alternative Futures, 01993 (pdf)
The Dancing Judicial Zen Masters: How many judges does it take to see the future?, 01993 (pdf)
Notes on "Social Policy Implications" for the Panel Discussion on Biotechnology and the Courts, "To Be or Not To Be", 01992 (pdf)
Teleworking Justice - a Concept Paper, 01992 (pdf)
Culturally-Appropriate Dispute Resolution Techniques and the Formal Judicial System in Hawaii, 01991 (pdf)
Inventing the Future of Courts and Courts of the Future: A Futurist's Perspective, 01991 (pdf)
When Crime Doesn't Pay -- Enough, 01991 (pdf)
20 Minutes Into the Future, 01989 (pdf)
Virginia Courts, 01987 (pdf)

cultures

Religion and War in the 21st Century, 02007 (pdf)

Ubiquitous, Dream, Transformational and other Futures, 02006 (pdf)
Futures of Identity, Racism, and Diversity, 02003 (pdf)
Families, Communities, and Futures, 01994 (pdf)
Does Religion Have a Future? 01994 (pdf)
Can Families Have a Future in America? 01992 (pdf)
Looking for Europe From the Outside, 01991 (pdf)
Initial Thoughts on the Futures of Cultures and Communication, 01990 (pdf)
Some Futures for Cultures, 01986 (pdf)

education Δ

The Future of Information, Literacy, and Lifetime Learning: A Symphonic Meditation, 02006 (pdf)
Alternative Futures for Universities and Business, 02006 (pdf)
Campus Futures, 02006 (pdf)
Universities without Quality & Quality without Universities, 02004 (pdf)
Visions, Values, Technologies, and Schools, 02002 (pdf)
A simple question to the graduates, 02001 (pdf)
Past and Future of the University of Hawaii, 01999 (pdf)
The Futures of Universities: Ivied Halls, Virtual Malls, or Theme Parks? 01998 (pdf)
Miner Thoughts, 01998 (pdf)
In Whose Service is Perfect Freedom, 01996 (pdf)
The College Classroom of the Year 2010, 01993 (pdf)
Global Villages, Local Villages, and the Futures of Tertiary Education, 01992 (pdf)
Is There a Future for Public Education in Hawaii? 01991 (pdf)

futures studies Δ

Alternative futures for K-Waves (pdf)
Reading history: comment on Chenoweth and Feitelson (subscription required)
Futures Research and Decision Making: Examples and Reflections, 02001 (pdf)
Forecasts useful, morally right: An 'if-then' contingency statement can help society make the best choices for future generations, 02000 (pdf)
Y2K - A Futurist's Dream, 01999 (pdf)
From Tsunamis to Long Waves and Back, 01999 (pdf)
The Future Lies Behind: Thirty Years of Teaching Futures Studies, 01998 (pdf)
A Fish In and Out of Water, 01996 (pdf)
Foreword: Introduction to Richard Slaughter's, The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies, 01996 (pdf)
How to Conduct a Futures Visioning Workshop, 01994 (pdf)
From Future Workshops to Envisioning Alternative Futures, 01993 (pdf)
Futures Studies As Applied Knowledge, 01993 (pdf)
Women In Futures Studies and Women's Visions of the Futures -- One Man's Tentative View, 01992 (pdf)
The Future Has a Long Fuse, 01991 (pdf)
Futures Research: A Second Look, And Yet Another Look Again, 01972 (pdf)
Aesthetics and Futures Studies, 01971 (pdf)

governance Δ

Governing at the End of the World, 02007 (doc)
To Vote, or not to Vote, 02006 (pdf)
The U.S. is not a Democracy, 02006 (pdf)
Future Generations: They Are Our Conscience, 01999 (pdf)
What Futures for Governance?, 01998 (pdf)
Newt's Sweet Dreams, 01995 (pdf)
The New World Economic Order: Implications for Insular Areas, 01994 (pdf)
Emerging Trends in Democratic Participation: The Many Faces of Democracy, 01992 (pdf)
Bright Future for Democracy? 01992 (pdf)
US Environmental Protection Agency: Intro Report on Pacific Islands Sea Level Rise, 01989 (pdf)

Hawaii Δ

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future, 02006 (pdf)
Hawaii Legislators as Applied Futurists, 02001 (pdf)
"Directions for the 21 Century" - Keynote Address to the Hawaiian Lifeguard Association, 02000 (pdf)
Maryknoll High School - "Pono", 02000 (pdf)
Hawaii as a Starving Donkey, 01999 (pdf)
Four Alternative Futures for Hawaii, 01999 (pdf)
We Were Diverted, Not Warned, 01998 (pdf)
Hawaii in 100 Years: Robots and Wealthy Outsiders, 01998 (pdf)
What Future for Media in Hawaii, 01995 (pdf)
Hawaiian Sovereignty: A Futurist's Perspective, 01994 (pdf)
Introduction to Ira Rohter's Green Hawaii, 01992 (pdf)
The 90s--the Make or Break Decade, 01990 (pdf)
Hawaii Girl Scouts - "Pluralism", 01985 (pdf)
Talk to the Hawaii Legislature, 01970 (pdf)

Japan and Korea Δ

Four articles (in Korean) from Dator's work with the Korean government, 02006 (all pdf): 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, 02003 (pdf)
Can we see the US of the Year 02230 in the Japan of 01992? (pdf)
Forget Pearl Harbor! Remember the Maine!, 01991 (pdf)

space Δ

Till the Ductile Anchor Hold: Toward Space Settlements in the 21st Century, 02006 (pdf)
Designing Governance Systems for Mars, 02004 (pdf)
Space Settlements and New Forms of Governance, 01995/02004 (pdf)
Some in Power, Some in Pain: a Symphonic Meditation on Humanity and Space, 02002 (pdf)
UH Students Settle Mars!...and Other Adventures from the Future, 01998 (pdf)
Why Should We Care About Fossils on Mars? What Has a Martian Ever Done For Me? 01997 (pdf)
Earth Analogs for Human Space Exploration and Settlement, 01995 (pdf)
Social Science and Space Programs, 01995 (pdf)
Thinking About Space Futures, Then, Now, and Tomorrow, 01995 (pdf)
Politics Is Everything, 01995 (pdf)
Space, the Final Frontier? Or the Finished Frontier? 01995 (pdf)
What Has Posterity Ever Done For Me? 01995 (pdf)

work and unions Δ

Even Brighter Futures for Unions, 02006 (pdf)
Mortgage Banking for the New American Empire, and other futures, 02003 (pdf)
The Last Supper of the Dinosaurs, 02000 (pdf)
Bright future for unions? 01997 (pdf)
A Labor of Love and Labor, 01996 (pdf)
Linkages Between Work and Education? 01994 (pdf)
Three True Stories and Their (Possible) Moral for the Future of UH Libraries and Librarians, 01993 (pdf)
Literacy and the Workplace 02000, 01992 (pdf)

other Δ

The Day "America" Changed for the World, 02003 (pdf)
Letter to Kevin Kelly, Re: Mandel, 01997 (pdf)
Who Will Design the Future From Owl Creek Bridge? 01995 (pdf)
My World--and Welcome to It!: A Song for Dove, Hawk, and Unaccompanied Optimist, 01973 (pdf)

book reviews Δ

Review of Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures: A Ziauddin Sardar Reader, 02004 (pdf)
Review of Medieval futures: Attitudes to the future in the Middle Ages, 02003 (pdf)
Review of From Imperial Myth to Democracy: Japan's Two Constitutions, 01889-02002, 02002 (pdf)
Review of The Future Of Tradition: Customary Law, Common Law, And Legal Pluralism, 02000 (pdf)
Review of Virginia Postrel. 01998. The Future and its Enemies: The growing conflict over creativity, enterprise, and progress, 01998 (pdf)
Review of Technology and Global Change, 01998 (pdf)
Frail Visions: A Review of Utopistics, 01995 (pdf)
Review of Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment, 01997 (pdf)
Review of Voyager Tales: Personal Views of the Grand Tour, 01997 (pdf)
Review of Paths of Fire: An Anthropologists Inquiry Into Western Technology, 01996 (pdf)
Review of Quantum Politics, Applying Quantum Theory to Political Phenomenon, 01991 (pdf)

works by prominent & emerging futurists Δ

Research of the Russian Futures Academy, Vol. 1, 02000 (pdf)

Weaving Webs of Ownership: Intellectual Property in an Information Age by Debora J. Halbert

Futures Fluency: Explorations in Leadership, Vision, and Creativity by Wendy L. Schultz

Environmental Scans for the VA Judiciary

2002