The opportunities for HRD in scenario planning

摘要

Simply to be a human being is to be a futurist of sorts. For human freedom is largely a matter of imagining alternative futures and then choosing among them. Conversely, to be a good futurist, one must at least aspire to being a good human being. One must care about the welfare of others. One's visions of the future must be informed by more than the science of what is or an imagination for what might be; one's visions of the future must also be informed by a sense of what ought to be.