ABSTRACT
This chapter provides arguments for alternative social policies with a set of wider issues concerning the shape that might be given to post-industrial society. In particular, one can discern three features in a possible scenario for the year 2000. First, formal employment would occupy a declining proportion of people's time. Secondly, there would be a more critical approach to the development of advanced technologies; more attention would be given to their impact on the quality of life, on the environment and on the supply of finite material resources. The slogans here are 'appropriate technology' and a 'conserver' instead of a 'consumer' economy, which both imply smaller scale and greater self-sufficiency. Thirdly, instead of being a passive consumer of both political and economic goods, the citizen would have a more active role as a participator in political life and in his employing organisation, as well as through his own activities in the personal economy.
