Abstract
The article discusses one of the contemporary approaches to thinking about the future, i.e. foresight. The authors present the concept of mapping predictive foresight studies onto the holone-holarchy structure. Against this background they identify a programme (project) as the key structural element in the holistic approach to foresight. They also argue that the holarchic approach can be useful when applied to foresight.
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