“Looking to the future” has become not only a pervasive human endeavor, but also a
resounding call and philosophical and strategic approach to address almost all of our contemporary
and emerging problems and challenges, identify new opportunities, and develop new solutions
across and in all fields, disciplines, ideologies, and frames of thoughts. Never before has there
been such a collective conscious realization and recognition that the future matters here and now.
Evidentiary toward such a prolific and consternating universal paradigm of 21st century society
are the many global, international, regional, national, and local efforts by social, cultural,
economic, legal, and political institutions in “building a curriculum for social activism.” This in
essence, is a response to change and the need for change; planned change, and adaptation to
unplanned change and uncertainty which Derek Hodson uses as the bedrocks of his book,
Looking to the Future: Building a Curriculum for Social Activism.