"Planning should be continuous and adaptive. Societary plans should continuously abort, and be recast, before they give birth to a monster. If this is true, there is no need to base them on the predictions that no-one can correctly make in any case, but only on the analysis of an unfolding situation in which every decision constrains future variety. In this statement the unpopular notion of planning is turned on its head, and deserves to become popular again. Because it means that the future is something we use our freedom to determine, rather than something that is lurking out there, and will happen to us, unless we are mighty smart. We can make, rather than prophesy, the future."