This postulate received a growing support over the following years...

This postulate received a growing support over the following years, although it was not practically implemented until the end of the century. Finally, the third stage began with the publishing in 2000 a more advanced new version of the long-term strategy for Poland, with its horizon extended until the year 2020[^16] . This concept is essentially more mature with regard to methodology and clearly represents the third of the trends in futures studies as distinguished before.

The specifics of this strategy as compared to the traditional prognoses is delineated by its four main features. The first one is making the starting point a different research question than in traditional prognoses. For it answers not the question what will the future…