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“The brain attempts to recognize this odor image by scanning and resolving it into previously stored patterns”

Fred Polak

Source: The Image of the Future, 1973, p. 469 as cited in: Donald A. Wilson, Richard J. Stevenson (2010) Learning to Smell: Olfactory Perception from Neurobiology to Behavior. p. 2

“Awareness of ideal values is the first step in the conscious creation of images of the future… for a value is by definition that which guides a ‘valued’ future.”

Fred Polak

Source: The Image of the Future, 1973, p. 10 as cited in: Rowena Morrow (2006) "Hope, entrepreneurship and foresight". In: Regional frontiers of entrepreneurship research

Future

“Social change will be viewed as a push-pull process in which a Society is at once pulled forward by its own magnetic images of an idealized future and pushed from behind by its realized past.”

Fred Polak

Source: The Image of the Future, 1973, p. 1 (as cited in: H.C. Marais (1988) South Africa: perspectives on the future. p. 15)

Change , Past , Future

“Once he (man) became conscious of creating images of the future, he became a participant in the process of creating this future.”

Fred Polak

Source: The Image of the Future, 1973, p. 6

Future

“All kinds of separate, fragmented portions of the jigsaw puzzle are of little avail, unless they are fitted together in the best possible way, to form an image of the future depicting a number of main areas of development.”

Fred Polak

Source: Prognostics, 1971, p. 261

Way , Future

“The rise and fall of images of the future precedes or accompanies the rise and fall of cultures. The image of the future can act not only as a barometer, but as a regulative mechanism which alternately opens and shuts the dampers on the mighty blast-furnace of culture. It not only indicates alternative choices and possibilities, but actively promotes certain choices and in effect puts them to work in determining the future. A close examination of prevailing images, then, puts us in a position to forecast the probable future. Any culture which finds itself in the condition of our present culture, turning aside from its own heritage of positive visions of the future, or actively at work in changing these positive visions into negative ones, has no future…”

Fred Polak

Source: The Image of the Future, 1973, p. 300

Change , Future

“The rise and fall of images of the future precedes or accompanies the rise and fall of cultures. As long as a society's image is positive and flourishing, the flower of culture is in full bloom. Once the image begins to decay and lose its vitality, however, the culture does not long survive.”

Fred Polak

Source: The Image of the Future, 1973, p. 19

Flowers , Future