The Futures Community Remembers Wendell Bell
Wendell Bell (September 27, 1924 – November 3, 2019) was a futurist and Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Yale University. His areas of specialisation included sociology, social class, race, family life and future studies.
FuturePod gathers voices from the international field of Futures and Foresight. One of our aims is to honour and to learn from the wisdom of those who have established and developed our field. However, there are times where the opportunity to interview a person directly is no longer an option.
In November last year (2019), the futures community unfortunately lost Wendell Bell. He was a giant of our field and while his writings will continue to make a contribution, there is no longer an opportunity for anyone to meet Wendell, or to learn from him through personal experience.
So today, we have asked a couple of our previous guests back to have a conversation about Wendell. I’ll be asking our guests to give us all a bit more information about what Wendell meant to them and what his legacy has given all of us.
Joining us in this special episode, is Richard Slaughter from podcast #12 Waking Up and my Inquiry into Depth and Tom Lombardo from podcast #56 Science Fiction and our Purposeful Evolution.
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References
Life Journey of a Futurist
Memories of the Future by Wendell Bell, Transaction Publishers 2011
Review by Thomas Lombardo. Published in World Future Review, Summer, 2012, Vol. 4, No.2.Bell-Marien Debate on Future Studies (pp. 131-133)
Bell's Comprehensive Overview of Future Studies (pp. 142-149) Published in Thomas Lombardo, Contemporary Futurist Thought. Bloomington, IN: Author House, 2006.Looking towards the Futures Studies renaissance: a conversation between Richard A Slaughter and Wendell Bell.
Richard A Slaughter. Journal of Futures Studies (2007), 12, 1, 95-108Wendell Bell, A Personal Appreciation. Richard A Slaughter.
Wendell Bell: The futurist who would put my grandmother in prison. Jim Dator