The ForesightPrinciple was first put forth in Richard Slaughter‘s book The Foresight Principle: Cultural Recovery In The 21st Century.
Slaughter defines the ForesightPrinciple as the (adapted from disinfo.com):
“deliberate process of expanding awareness and understanding through futures scanning and the clarification of emerging situations.[1]This human process is an extension of innate brain-environment perceptions. Four key applications of Foresight are “assessing possible consequences of actions, decisions . . . anticipating problems before they occur . . . considering the present implications of possible future events . . . [and] envisioning desired aspects of future societies.” [2]
Notes:
1.Richard A. Slaughter. The Foresight Principle: Cultural Recovery in the 21st Century. Westport, CT: Praeger Press and London: Adamantite Press Ltd., 1995 xvii
2. Richard A. Slaughter. Ibid. xvii
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