Senses of the Future: Conflicting Ideas of the Future in the World Today - Paperbackby Gerard Delanty (Author) The modern visions of the future were based on the ideas of progress, utopia and revolutionary renewal. In western societies since the middle of the twentieth century, these visions gradually went into decline with the rise of a dominant vision based on prediction, forecasting and technocratic control. Although by no means hegemonic, it was an expression of belief in a western model of modernisation and the legacy of liberal