The task of the futurist is not to predict, but to try to envision achievable desirable futures and to formulate strategies by which we might achieve such futures. We are not speaking about deterministic or inevitable futures but rather about desirable futures determined by us. A futurist is, therefore, a long-term social strategist, trying to construct a future-oriented social science based on a rigorous critique of the history that has created our present as well as idealized visions of human capabilities. It is a value-laden science. It does not deal with what will be, it deals with what should be or could be. The task of the Jewish futurist is to state the self-evident truths that (1) the Jews are part of world developments whether they like it or not and that (2) the future is more important than the past. We cannot live in the past, but we will either live or die in the future. We cannot change the past, but we can create ate a better future.
Tsvi (Howard) Bisk;Moshe Dror. Futurizing the Jews: Alternative Futures for Meaningful Jewish Existence in the 21st Century (Kindle Locations 86-91). Kindle Edition.
Some developments that must guide Jewish thinking in the next several decades are telecommunications, the creation of a world market and a world cultural market, ecological concerns, and the creation of a unified European Community from the Atlantic to the Urals by the end of the second decade of this century.
Tsvi (Howard) Bisk; Moshe Dror. Futurizing the Jews: Alternative Futures for Meaningful Jewish Existence in the 21st Century (Kindle Locations 99-100). Kindle Edition.