Future talk:Exemplary Status

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One must add other criteria to gain "exemplary" status: grounded, knowledgeable and substantive. Form is important but secondary since substantive pieces can always be restructured in form.

This is especially important in the arena of "futures" which tends to attract ideas which are often on the edge. This has made the discipline less than credible in some arenas. It has caused professionals to eschew the term when describing what their area of practice might be, perhaps deferring to the arenas of planning, forecasting, modeling or simulation and other titles, particularly in the corporate world.

The section on education exemplifies the conflict in ideas between Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales, the Madisonian vs the Jeffersonian idea of the wisdom of the crowds. In this case, the section is sufficiently flawed that serious futurists will probably eschew engaging in the self correcting "wisdom of the crowds" around this and potentially the entire Futures Wikia.

Lets just look at a fraction of the literature which apparently was not accessed for this piece.

World Future Society: Futures Survey The Futurist Society for Research In Higher Education World Futures Study Federation Carnegie Foundation . . . Futures Study Programs at the University of Hawaii, University of Houston,. . .

And while wiki might challenge google in the future, that is no reason not to at least do a search to find some substantive backing for what is presented under education here.