Future Expectations and Future Conduct (1992)

Ideas about political, economic and social development in the future.
Topics: fear of the future; importance of selected areas of life in the
future; importance of selected values in the future; future worth
living in through technology and science; thoughts about the future of
the country; personal influence on the future; greatest dangers in the
future; religious, philosophical and political values with increasing
significance in the future; social groupings becoming more powerful in
the Federal Republic; personal wish for the next 20 years; political
power block with increasing significance in the future; peace strategy
with greatest probability of success; estimate of time worked each week
in the year 2000; technical further development and influences on the
development of the job market (scale); attitude to flexible handling of
working hours and leisure time; forms of financial investment,
long-term savings program and payment with prospects for the future;
type of energy with future prospects; assessment of future energy need
of industrial countries; development of energy prices; most important
means of transport; new traffic systems; most important areas of threat
to the environment; assumed change of environmental quality in the
future; adequate environmental protection measures; vocational training
or college as preferred alternative; assessment of general political
interest in the future; more leisure time in future; expectation of
more leisure time and athletic activity for health reasons; types of
sport with increasing numbers of supporters; expected increase of
vacations abroad or domestic vacations; vacation areas of the future;
vacation transport with the greatest chances for growth; obstacles to
vacation trips far from home; characteristics of car, bus, train and
airplane as means of transport for vacation; preferred offers to
increase attractivity of local recreational areas; use of car in use of
local recreation opportunities; estimated change of proportion of
vacation costs in household income in the future; vacation reasons with
increasing significance in the future; personal hobbies and hobbies
with increasing significance; most important characteristics of
businesses and demands in shopping in the future; world regions with
strongly increasing or decreasing future total populations; expected
development of the desire for children in the future and average number
of children; expected development of the problem of asylum-seekers and
guest workers; future eating habits; biological or ecological or
conventional agricultural production with chances in the future;
development of nutrition habits; attitude to nature cosmetics; health
complaints with increasing significance; expected development of
frequency of visits to the doctor and future conduct with minor
complaints; primary causes for physical complaints in the future;
judgement on the desirability of selected medical cures; expected
increase of addiction and drug problems; judgement on the development
of information technology; technical progress advantage or disadvantage
for humanity; influence on the environment through technical progress;
trust in data protection; preferred form of housing in the future;
preference for one´s own home in the country or city residence;
expected development of the housing supply.