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Future Scenarios for China in Space

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Abstract

Nobody can predict the future because it has not yet been written. However, it is always intriguing to try. A productive approach to understanding potential futures is to try to identify and understand the many different images people have of the future

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Notes

  1. 1.

    For more on futures studies, see Jim Dator, “Methods in Futures Studies,” (lecture notes presented at University of Hawai’i at Manoa, 1985) and see [1].

  2. 2.

    Based on Jim Dator’s work on the four archetypes of futures see [2].

  3. 3.

    References [3, 4].

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    Image from http://www.power-technology.com/features/featuregiant-leap-for-space-based-solar/featuregiant-leap-for-space-based-solar-1.html.

References

  1. Dator, Jim. 1998. The future lies behind! Thirty years of teaching futures studies. Introduction to the special issue on teaching futures studies at the university level. American Behavioral Scientist. From http://www.futures.hawaii.edu/puplications.html.

  2. Dator, Jim. 2009. Alternative futures at the manoa school. Journal of Futures Studies 14(2): 1–18.

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  4. Gao, Ji, Hou, Xinbin, and Wang, Li. 2010. Solar power satellites research in China. Online Journal of Space Communication. From http://spacejournal.ohio.edu/issue16/ji.html.

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    Stacey Solomone

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Solomone, S. (2013). Future Scenarios for China in Space. In: China’s Strategy in Space. SpringerBriefs in Space Development. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6690-1_8

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