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Henry Winthrop received his education in the United States. His experience has been chiefly in university teaching and as a Federal civil servant. He has served at different times on the editorial boards of several journals. He has also contributed chapters to various edited volumes. The author is interested in futurology because it deals with concerns that cut across intellectual boundaries. He believes that work should be encouraged that looks towards the gradual development of a social philosophy for a technological civilization. He believes that social philosophy and studies of the social impact of science and technology are two areas that jointly lend themselves to studies of the future. The author is also interested in certain areas, related to future studies. One such area is concerned with the technological possibilities for promoting small scale, decentralized civic cultures in which the benefits of mass society may be obtained without incurring such social costs as the social pathologies of large-scale urban life, environmental pathologies, over-regulation of the life of the individual, etc. a second such area is an exploration of the types of change that are needed in the curriculum of higher education, that will reflect the bearing of studies of the future on the emerging problems of society. The needed educational reforms center about those changes in values and priorities, made necessary by the problems that science and technology will be increasingly creating for mankind.