The futurists === > [!tldr] Tags > #type/book > [!info] Meta Data >**FirstEditor**:: [[Toffler, Alvin]] **Editor**:: [[Toffler, Heidi]] > **Title**:: The futurists > **Year**:: 1972 > **Citekey**:: [[1972_toffler.toffler]] > **itemType**:: book > **Publisher**:: Random House > **Location**:: New York > **ISBN**:: 978-0-394-31713-7 > **ISSN**:: > > [!Cite] > Toffler Alvin et Toffler Heidi (eds.), _The futurists_, 1. ed., New York, Random House, 1972, 321 p. > > %%[@1972_toffler.toffler]%% > **URL**:: . > > **Related**:: . > > **Attachment**::[Toffler_1972_The futurists.pdf](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/QU994LN7). --- > [!important] Synthesis > **Contribution**:: > > [!Abstract] >> --- # Note. --- # Annotations%% begin annotations %% ### Imported: 2026-09-23 6:20 pm <mark style="background-color: #ffd400">Quote</mark> > Today the general term ‘“‘futurology” denotes both a complex combination of specific social prognoses and prognostication proper, a new, gradually developing science of the laws, methods, and ways of prognostication. The sphere of prognostication has been substantially broadened to embrace not only economics but demography, the social implications of the technological revolution, politics, etc. <mark style="background-color: #ffd400">Quote</mark> > In the present-day capitalist world futurology has a dual role to play: first, to participate in working out the economic and political strategy of imperialism; secondly, to supply new arguments in the ideological struggle against communism. %% end annotations %% %% Import Date: 2026-09-23T18:20:55.972+02:00 %%