Jim Dator’s Four Futures

  Jim Dator’s four futures are based on prospection. It’s an estimate of the possible realities that’ll exist in the future, based on the data we have today, and from a rigorous statistical analysis of the same. It could be said that they’re speculations or hypotheses with empirical and logical bases. Jim Dator is professor emeritus and director of the Hawaii Futures Studies Research Center. He’s dedicated 50 years of his life to exploring what we now know as Futures Studies. Based on his research, he’s formulated the four most likely futures. Dator has clarified that the future as such…