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THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SCIENCES: THEORY AND PRACTICE, V.70, # 2, 2013, pp. 4-31

Transition situation: actualization of future

The actualization of future is its transfer to present. It is future of presence. After this the
future is realizing in the same way and as a result recent “future” transfers to future of the past.

Time from this aspect from the future present and past flow exists together with the stereotype

flow – from past to future (by the means of “present”)…
Thus depending from approach and set goal there are 2 types of “future”:

1) The time flowing by its own (past present future);

2) Created future – the wise versa directed and regulated time flow (future present past).
From social point of view we face very interesting situation… Do mentioned time flows

coincide in some point? The answer for this question can be found from pragmatic point of view.
From the natural science point of view, the second flow is not actual and, in general, there is no

sufficient basis for its realization. The direction of social or economic time from future to past

and at least its direction to present are unavoidable. It is due to the fact that both economic and
social futures are created. The belief that the unexpected processes take a source from past and

present and can bring to desirable “future” is misleading…
Why direction to the “traditional” future is considered to be misleading? For this purpose we

should pay attention to heterogenic nature of the world and natural substance of global “irregularity”.

The allocation of society type in line like traditional industrial post-industrial and postponing
of certain large countries apart of the mentioned “progressive” process brings about nothing more

than the misleading. In other world, the following of post-industrial society after the industrial one

has definite meaning and purpose.
As we have noted before, the indicated process has no correlation with the progress process

and “domination” of unexpected events. This is purposively managed (not regulated) process.
The transfer from industrial to postindustrial society is not possible without the management of

the process. On other hand the industrial society in XVIII- XIX centuries and in XXI century are
totally different societies, although the name is the same.

The global economic system is in such development stage, where the movement from

simple to complex and from primary to superior level accompanied with only time wastage.
Thus, the approach like “first simple then complex” is anachronism.

For example, the stereotype approach to transfer from industrial to post-industrial society and
from modern to post-modern society is impossible. In other words, the transfer to post-modern stage

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