ABSTRACT
It is a paradox to write about the future when I represent a social anthropology of more than sixty years’ development. But possibly there is truth in T.S.Eliot’s Four Qu artets ‘Burnt Norton’ aphorism: Time present and time past/Are both perhaps present in time future.’ Anyway, my statements will be rather indefinite as regards time. They will also be very tentative. In the language of the futurologists they will be conjecture, intellectually disciplined speculation, rather than forecast or prediction.
