Robert Jungk, one of the community futures pioneers, tells the story of taking some "deeply pessimistic" German youngsters, found by a competition, through a futures workshop, to discover that they produced much more optimistic images of the future. "Asked to explain the contradiction, one of them answered, to general assent: 'It's obvious. In the competition we were asked what kind of future we expected. Here we were asked what kind of future we want' " (Jungk & Mullert, 1996, p.15).
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