James Allen (Jim) Dator is Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Core Lecturer, Space Humanities, International Space University, Strasbourg, France; Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Futures Strategy, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Daejeon, Korea, and former President, World Futures Studies Federation. He also taught at Rikkyo University (Tokyo, for six years), the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, the University of Toronto, and the InterUniversity Consortium for Postgraduate Studies in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.

BA in Ancient and Medieval History and Philosophy from Stetson University, an MA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in Political Science from The American University. Post-graduate work at Virginia Theological Seminary (Systematic Theology, Ethics, and Church History),Yale University (Japanese Language), The University of Michigan (Linguistics and Survey Research Methods), Southern Methodist University (Mathematical Applications in Political Science). A Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Danforth Fellow, and a Fulbright Fellow.

Recent books authored:

Beyond Identities: Human Becomings in Weirding Worlds. Springer Press, 2022.

Jim Dator: A noticer in time. Selected work, 1967-2018. Springer Press, 2019.

Mutative Media: Communication Technologies and Power Relations in the Past, Present and Futures (with John Sweeney and Aubrey Yee). Springer Press, 2014.

Preface.- 1. Waves of change.- 2. The Korean wave.- 3. A hidden wave?.- 4. Changing comunication modes change societies.- 5. The post-industrial interregnum.- 6. Visual images vs. the printed word.- 7. Eroding literal truth.- 8. Dreaming in the Anthropocene.- 9. Designing governance.- 10. The predicament of governance design.- 11. Precursor political dreamweavers.- 12. Donald Trump as a dream society paragon.- 13. Towards quantum governance of a dream society.- 14. Beyond words and images.