FCSS*1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Johannes Gutenberg, Digital Divide, Jeremy Bentham
Document Summary
Future is entirely constructed; we imagine it based on current trends. Weed was legal before, then illegal, and now we have tightly limited legal access to it for only therapeutic purposes, and prospect of the effective decriminalization of weed use. Sociologists need to formulate possible solutions to the social problems that we predict are likely to occur/recur. Utopias places where everything works in perfect harmony started with accient peoples imaging the origins of humanity and imagining the afterlife . dystopias things to avoid. Future studies seek to make use of our understanding of the past and present. Future studies the area of research concerned with forecasting possible scenarios technological, economic, political, social, environmental in order to prepare for an shape what may come. Prediction - people will continue to respond positively to new opportunities, and that these new opportunities will continue to be provided by new technology, among other things.
