Abstract
With this article I.F. Clarke begins another series in which he will trace the development of future-thinking during the 20th century. The line of advance follows the ever-growing professionalization of the major technological societies—from the first essays and occasional books about the future in the 1890s to the think-tanks, the commissions for the year 2000, the journals and the associations of the 1990s. The two great engines of future-thinking, says I.F. Clarke, have been the rate of change and the scale of change. At every stage in the growth of the modern industrial state the factors making for change have demonstrated beyond all questioning that Homo technologicus has, and knows he has, an urgent need to discover what may lie ahead.
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