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In 1970, the state of Hawaii organized a landmark project to garner public input on possibilities for the futures, called Hawaii 2000—a year-long, cross-island endeavor that utilized then-cutting edge communication technologies and a range of tools for engaging various stakeholders. As Chaplin explains, “A Commission on the Year 2000 for Hawaii, involving not only academics and professionals, but also the young for whom the twenty-first century will exist, could help us focus on where we want to go and how to get there” [5, pp. 3–4]. As Dator et al. recount:
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Dator, J.A., Sweeney, J.A., Yee, A.M. (2015). Alternative Futures at the Mānoa School. In: Mutative Media. Lecture Notes in Social Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07809-0_5
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