The Future as an Academic Discipline -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Mark III survey of university-level futures courses -- Discussion -- A university experiment in Sweden -- Discussion -- The future as a discipline and the future of the disciplines -- Discussion -- A dragon or a pussy cat? Two views of human knowledge -- Discussion -- Social decisions prerequisite to educational change 1975-1985 -- Discussion -- From academic hothouse to professional dugout: a mean free path -- Discussion -- Sclerotic structures and the future of academic organization -- Discussion -- Eclectics: elements of a transdisciplinary methodology for futures studies -- Discussion -- Some fundamental philosophical, psychological and intellectual assumptions of futures studies -- Discussion -- Universities as nerve centres of society -- Discussion -- Patterns of education for the future -- Discussion -- General Discussion -- Concluding remarks -- Biographies of the participants -- Index of contributors -- Subject index.