ABSTRACT
Experience has taught us that the future is usually not what we would have expected from extrapolating past developments, but rather what we make of it. Jacques de Bourbon-Busset once wrote: ‘What we want is not to guess at the probable future, but to prepare one that is desirable and perhaps even to go that bit further and try to make the desirable future the probable one.’ To do so, we have to focus on the future, something that seems appropriate at the dawn of a new millennium.
