当代西方未来主义思潮简评

Review of Modern Western Futurism Trends of Social Thought

当代西方未来主义是20世纪70年代以来风行的一种社会思潮,旨在对未来社会发展趋势、模式、规律等进行探究与预估。尽管思潮本身蕴含较浓郁的资产阶级意识形态色彩,但它致思思维严谨,预测方法先进,深切关怀人类运程,重视介入社会管理,带来了人类社会历史观的重大变革,在人类社会发展规划方面发挥了一定的导向作用,也为新科技革命条件下全面认识科学技术的社会作用提供了理论支撑。

Appeared in the 1970s of the 20th century, modern western futurism is a capitalist ideology-based social thought of studying and prospecting the futuristic social development. It is of a careful academic style and advanced predicting method, paying attention to human destiny, actively being involved in social management and bringing important changes to human view on social history. Modern western futurism has played a certain leading role in planning human social develop- ment and is of significance for fully understanding of the social function of science and technology under the conditions of new scientific and technologic revolution.