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Preface: Governing in a World of Rapid Change

Part I: Report of the Roundtable

1. INTRODUCTION

The Information Society

An Infrastructure for Learning

Findings of the Project during Phase I

Continuing the Search: The Second Phase of the Project

Constructing Shared Maps: The Scenario Approach

Beginning the Process

The Shape of the Report

2. RE-MAPPING THE TERRITORY: THREE PERSPECTIVES

The Economy: A New Techno-economic Paradigm

Culture and Values: The Postmodern Challenge

The Social Contract: Rebuilding Social Infrastructure

Conclusions

3. CONSTRUCTING SCENARIOS

The Scenario Workshop

Starship Scenario

Titanic Scenario

HMS Bounty Scenario

Windjammer Scenario

Conclusions

4. CHANGING COURSE: TOWARD SOCIAL COHESION

Some Essential Requirements for Creating a Learning Society

Developing the Learning Capacity of Individuals

Learning Organizations and a Learning Society

Building on Diversity

Building Consensus: The Art of Coming to Public Judgement

The Public-judgement Model

The Importance of "Working Through"

Navigating Some Obstacles to Public Judgement

Conclusions

5. CONTINUING THE PROCESS: BUILDING A LEARNING SOCIETY

Summary: Reviewing the Course We Have Followed So Far

Building a Learning Society: Re-balancing Economic and Social Concerns

Continuing the Process: A Preliminary Agenda

Renewing the Social Contract

Focusing on Values

Building an Infrastructure for Public Learning

Information Technology: New Tools for a Learning Society

On the Importance of the Process

Next Steps

Part II: Selected Papers Presented to the Roundtable

6. Scenario Thinking About the Future

7. The Information Economy: ICT and the Future of the World Economy

8. Postmondernism, Pluralism, and the Crisis of Legitimacy

9. Communitarianism

10. The Learning Society in the Information Age

11. A Critique of the "Information Society" Concept

Glossary of Acronyms