Productive and consumption activities of inhabitants were de...

Productive and consumption activities of inhabitants were de facto predetermined by extrapolated volumes of output indicators in the central state plan. In sixties many futurologists spoke about that practice like about “forecasting, when the future is known”. However, analyses and assessment of future development of human values and attitudes and forecasting their impacts in the cultural practice of the society, were completely missing there.

The mentioned above post-war period of futures studies practice development was finished in the democratic part of industrially developed countries in the fifties. Time extrapolation and trend analyses represented too narrow…