Life courses, both professional and personal, are often directed
by unplanned experiences. At crossroads, which path is followed and
which hard choices are made can change the direction of one's
future. Wendell Bell's life illustrates how totally unforeseen
events can shape individual lives. As he notes, despite our hopes
and our plans for the future, there is also serendipity, feedback,
twists and turns, chance and circumstance, all of which shape our
futures with sometimes surprising results. In Bell's case, such
twists and turns of chance and circumstance led to his role in
developing the new field of futures studies.
In Memories of the Future, Bell recognizes the importance of
images of the future and the effect of these images on events to
come. Such images--dreams, visions, or whatever we call them--help
to determine our actions, which, in turn, help shape the future,
although not always in ways that we intend. Bell illustrates,
partly with the story of his own life, how people remember such
past images of the future and how the memories of them linger and
are often used to judge the real outcomes of their lives.
This is a fascinating view of the work of an important social
scientist and the people and events that helped define his life. It
is also about American higher education, especially from the end of
World War II through the 1960s and 1970s, a period of educational
transformation that included the spread of the merit system; the
increase in ethnic, racial, gender, and social diversity among
students and faculty; and a massive increase in research and
knowledge.
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