Life Journey of a Futurist

摘要

Acclaimed futurist Wendell Bell recalls his personal struggles, triumphs, and the events that led him to a career in futures studies. Memories of the Future by Wendell Bell. Transaction Publishers. 2011. 291 pages. $44.95. I met Wendell Bell in 1997, and over the ensuing years have had numerous conversations and interactions with him, discussing topics as diverse as science, ethics, philosophy, history, and most notably futures studies. During this time we have read and written on many of each other's publications, and hence believing that I had a good understanding of his theoretical work, I was pleasantly surprised when I read his new autobiography, which, for me, is filled with numerous intriguing and fascinating personal revelations. I encountered the story of the man behind the philosophy.