This encyclopaedic book captures and collates the transition in the thinking about new education, new technology, new management approaches and futures consciousness during the last two and a half decades of the 20 century India. It describes with what mind-set and how our decision makers, scientists and thinkers accepted or rejected changes. Also, how during these decades a major movement of futurology (futures studies) and future consciousness emerged and impacted systems in the public and private domains and how, the author played a significant role in furthering the Indian futurology movement through a futuristic network. It further records how the future oriented research and thought grew and futures studies got institutionalized in the Indian universities and in some of its school systems. The questions raised in this set of collected writings in the words of Dr. Seth is simply this: do all Indian systems that cater to the spectrum of basic needs of India have looked enough in an anticipatory mode? Have these systems developed alternate scenarios of development to accommodate future needs and demands of over a billion Indians? Do our administration, planning, process and thinking there of have a good grip, inaccessing the emerging demand of the future—and at all levels of management in all sectors? On how to manage the new goals of change? Dr. Seth, thus argues that genuine development has to be seen as a scientific exercise of future scanning and anticipatory management.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Satish C. Seth
Dr. S.C. Seth has been a Science and Education administrator. He is an internationality known scholar in the field of future studies and has been a pioneer of futurology movement in India. He holds Ph.Ds from Agra University and Manchester University (UK.) He has been the Member Secretary of the Futurology Panel of the Government of India (1973-83). He is a fellow of the World Federation of Futures Studies and Member of the World Future Society. He is also Founder Member of the Indian Society of Training and Development. The Indian Council of Management and Future and the Centre of Anticipatory Management. He has delivered lectures in several universities in the UK, the USA and China. In Futurology his major contribution has been the 'Seth-Harva method of Scenario Building, which is now a standard methodology adopted all over by Systems Analysis and Futurology Experts. In Public Administration his scholarly reputation is linked to the Seth's Amendment to Parkison's law while enunciating the Seth's law of Hirarical Parallels and the law of Civilian Mercenaries. Highly noteworthy is his mathematical deduction of Power Play in a Pyramid when what with full of bloated bureaucracy the Ministeries and Departments indeed are. Dr. Seth's other important books are 'Future Scan and Anticipatory Management' (UNESCO enlisted book), India: The Next 7000 days (Wiley) and the famous novel, "The Pak File". (VIKAS). Recently, the American Bibliography Institute has selected and documented Dr. SEth's contributions in their premier edition entitled "Great Minds of the 21st Century".
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