ABSTRACT
Which, then, are the prospects within the field of science for an intellectual effort along the radical lines sketched in the previous chapter? The answer is that work is already in progress in various niches in an academic environment which, by and large, remains alien to the newcomers. I will refer in the following to one single example, namely the R&D work which has been accomplished by the University Group for Humanist Futurology at Umeå for a couple of years. I will do this in some detail because the thematic design of the actual book, although containing the contributions of many independent authors, makes reference on several points to the Umeå studies.
