James Allen Dator is Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, Department of Political Science, and Adjunct Professor in the College of Architecture, of the University of Hawaii at Manoa; Co-Chair and Core Lecturer, Space Humanities, International Space University, Strasbourg, France; Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Futures Strategy, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Daejeon, Korea, and former President, World Futures Studies Federation. He is editor-in-chief of the World Futures Review. He also taught in the College of Law and Politics, Rikkyo University (Tokyo, for six years), the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, the University of Toronto, and the InterUniversity Consortium for Postgraduate Studies in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.

He received a BA in Ancient and Medieval History and Philosophy from Stetson University, an MA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in Political Science from The American University. He did post-graduate work at Virginia Theological Seminary (Ethics and Church History), Yale University (Japanese Language), The University of Michigan (Linguistics and Quantitative Methods), Southern Methodist University (Mathematical Applications in Political Science).

Collects the work of James Allen Dator who is largely credited with shaping futures studies within American universities

Covers a more than 50 year period of thought, reflection, and ideas

Helps readers to better understand the trends that may shape tomorrow

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. What is Futures Studies, and what is it not?.- Chapter 3. Some Visions of Preferred Futures.- Chapter 4. Some Alternative Futures.- Chapter 5. Some Futures Theories and Methods.- Chapter 6. About Some Futurists.- Chapter 7. About some specific topics.- Chapter 8. About some specific places.- Chapter 9. Reflections.