James Allen Dator (born 1933) is an American futurologist and a former professor and Director of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies in the department of political science and college of social sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has written on four futures archetypes which represent four alternative scenarios (Continuation, Limits & Discipline, Decline & Collapse, Transformation). Since retiring, he advises and collaborates with the UK-based School of International Futures (SOIF).

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• ADB Futures Thinking Guidebooks

• Next Generation Exploration Conference Profile

• Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies (HRCFS)

• Homepage at University of Hawaii (EWC-Manoa)

• Why Futures Studies: An Interview with Jim Dator (2012)

• SOIFutures Retreat 2019 (Day One)

• TVOntario Dr. Jim Dator 1977, extro to an episode of the Doctor Who story "Planet of the Spiders"

• TVOntario Jim Dator Farewell 1977

• Dator's final Doctor Who extro.

• The IAFOR International Conference on Social Sciences- Hawaii (2009-2017)