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E-Society or Retrognosis from a Long-Range Future Professor Peter H. Mettler FH Wiesbaden - University of Applied Sciences, Germany http://www.peter-h-mettler.eu/ email: peterh.mettler@online.de Tourism can hardly serve as principal indicator for a new society on the verge, because tou¬rism is neither a new nor a fundamental phenomenon. Comparisons between other societal phenomena like technologies and social structures better allow judgements of the requested sort. Probabilities are rising steadily that a simultaneous development of a totally new intelligent e-society and a new Homo Sapience will be possible as well as likely in the (far-out) future. A look from such an angle into "tourism of the future" could eventually reveal: the totally mobile world-citizen traveller ... Dubai is already imagining her/him ... Methodological deduction: we can easily apply general considerations to the specific topic tourism. To do so vice versa (induction) seems to be much harder if not almost impossible. |