Thirdly, we must begin to do research on the historical choices that are before us in the future. If we believe that all historical systems come to an end, the one in which we are living will also do so. And if we believe that the secular trends of the existing system have brought it into the zone of systemic crisis or “transition,” then it is more than time that we begin to engage in utopistics-not utopianism, but utopistics is the science of utopian utopias, that is, the attempt to clarify the real historical alternatives that are before us when an historical system enters into its crisis phase, and to assess at the moment of extreme fluctuations the pluses and minuses of alternative strategies.