Papers by Dr. Jim Dator

Artificiality

Selling Chips to Robots: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Virtual Realities / pdf I Want My ITV / pdf Dogs Don't Bark At Parked Cars / pdf Even Though Oxygen Is Flowing, the Plastic Bag May Not Inflate: Normalcy, Survival, and Transformation of Future Generations / pdf Every M.U.D. is an allusion for death / pdf As If I Virtually Said This to Pepsi Executives During a Futures Discussion at their Headquarters / pdf Responsible For Your Rose / pdf What's Un-Common About Comm-Unities? Past, Present, and Future / pdf

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Courts and Law

From "Parking" to " When the Courts of Justice are Overgrown with Grass" / pdf American State Courts, Five Tsunamis, & Four Alternative Futures / pdf The Dancing Judicial Zen Masters: How many judges does it take to see the future? / pdf Dowager Revisited / pdf Notes on "Social Policy Implications" for the Panel Discussion on Biotechnology and the Courts, "To Be or Not To Be" / pdf Culturally-Appropriate Dispute Resolution Techniques and the Formal Judicial System in Hawaii / pdf Inventing the Future of Courts and Courts of the Future: A Futurists Perspective / pdf Judiciaries, Futures of US State / pdf Teleworking Justice - a Concept Paper / pdf When Crime Doesn't Pay -- Enough / pdf 20 Minutes Into the Future / pdf Virginia Courts / pdf

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Culture

Initial Thoughts on the Futures of Cultures and Communication / pdf Some Futures for Cultures / pdf

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Education

The Futures of Universities: Ivied Halls, Virtual Malls, or Theme Parks? / pdf Global Villages, Local Villages, and the Futures of Tertiary Education / pdf The College Classroom of the Year 2010 / pdf Is There a Future for Public Education in Hawaii? / pdf In Whose Service is Perfect Freedom / pdf Miner Thoughts / pdf Past and Future of the University of Hawaii

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Futures Studies

From Future Workshops to Envisioning Alternative Futures / pdf From Tsunamis to Long Waves and Back / pdf How to Conduct a Futures Visioning Workshop / pdf The Future Lies Behind: Thirty Years of Teaching Futures Studies / pdf The Future Has a Long Fuse / pdf A Fish In and Out of Water / pdf Foreword: Introduction to Richard Slaughter's, The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies / pdf Futures Studies As Applied Knowledge / pdf Futures Research: A Second Look, And Yet Another Look Again / pdf Y2K - A Futurist's Dream / pdf Esthetics and Futures Studies - 1971 / pdf

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Governance

Newt's Sweet Dreams / pdf Future Generations: They Are Our Conscience / pdf What Futures for Governance? / pdf Emerging Trends in Democratic Participation: The Many Faces of Democracy / pdf Bright Future for Democracy? / pdf US Environmental Protection Agency: Intro Report on Pacific Islands Sea Level Rise / pdf The New World Economic Order - 1994 / pdf

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 Hawaii

"Directions for the 21 Century" - Keynote Address to the Hawaiian Lifeguard Association / pdf Introduction to Ira Rohter's Green Hawaii / pdf The 90s--the Make or Break Decade / pdf We Were Diverted, Not Warned / pdf 1970 Talk to the Hawaii Legislature / pdf Hawaii in 100 Years: Robots and Wealthy Outsiders / pdf Hawaiian Sovereignty: A Futurist's Perspective / pdf What Future for Media in Hawaii / pdf Hawaii as a Starving Donkey - Some Thoughts / pdf Four Alternative Futures for Hawaii / pdf Hawaii Girl Scouts - "Pluralism" / pdf Maryknoll High School - "Pono" / pdf

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Japan

Can we see the US of the Year 2230 in the Japan of 1992? / pdf Forget Pearl Harbor! Remember the Maine! / pdf Futures of Japan / pdf

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Space

Earth Analogs for Human Space Exploration and Settlement / pdf Thinking About Space Futures, Then, Now, and Tomorrow / pdf UH Students Settle Mars!...and Other Adventures from the Future / pdf Politics Is Everything / pdf Space Settlements and New Forms of Governance / pdf Space, the Final Frontier? Or the Finished Frontier? / pdf Why Should We Care About Fossils on Mars? What Has a Martian Ever Done For Me? / pdf Social Science and Space Programs / pdf What Has Posterity Ever Done For Me? / pdf

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Work and Unions

Three True Stories and Their (Possible) Moral for the Future of UH Libraries and Librarians / pdf Literacy and the Workplace 2000 / pdf Bright future for unions? / pdf A Labor of Love and Labor / pdf Linkages Between Work and Education? / pdf The Last Supper of the Dinosaurs / pdf

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Other

Surfing the Tsunamis of Change / pdf Families, Communities, and Futures / pdf Does Religion Have a Future? / pdf Letter to Kevin Kelly, Re: Mandel / pdf The New World Economic Order: Implications for Insular Areas / pdf Can Families Have a Future in America? / pdf Looking for Europe From the Outside / pdf Who Will Design the Future From Owl Creek Bridge? / pdf Coming, Ready Or Not: The World We Are Leaving Future Generations, and Our Responsibility Towards Them / pdf Women In Futures Studies and Women's Visions of the Futures -- One Man's Tentative View / pdf

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Book Reviews

Review of The Future Of Tradition: Customary Law, Common Law, And Legal Pluralism,2000 / pdf Review of Technology and Global Change, 1998 / pdf Frail Visions: A Review of Utopistics, 1998 / pdf Review of Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment, 1997 / pdf Review of Voyager Tales: Personal Views of the Grand Tour, 1997 / pdf Review of Paths of Fire: An Anthropologists Inquiry Into Western Technology, 1996 / pdf Review of Quantum Politics, Applying Quantum Theory to Political Phenomenon, 1991 / pdf

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