01034nam a22001217a 4500008004100000100002200041245010100063260003800164300003200202520057400234650006600808773003800874220214b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aAndersson, Jenny   aPlanning the American future: Daniel Bell, future research, and the commission on the years 2000  aJournal of the History of Ideas    a82(4), Oct, 2021: p.661-682  aThis article examines the sociologist Daniel Bell's interest in future research. Future research, to Bell, had as its particular purpose to ensure forms of coordination and steering acceptable to a liberal society. By examining Bell's interest in future research and the activities of the Commission on the Year 2000, the essay proposes that future research played a role in Cold War intellectual history as a particular form of planning for the liberal polity. This idea of planning a liberal society changed decisively, however, between 1965 and 1975. – Reproduced   aBell Palsy, Health Personnel, Humans, Politics, United States  aJournal of the History of Ideas