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Knowing our future : the Startling Case for Futurology.
The received conventional wisdom within the global futurist community is that the future is unknowable. Knowing our future outlines a full theory of how knowable the future really is. Using case studies of prescient predictions of the social future from the time of the French Revolution through to t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Infinite Ideas,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The received conventional wisdom within the global futurist community is that the future is unknowable. Knowing our future outlines a full theory of how knowable the future really is. Using case studies of prescient predictions of the social future from the time of the French Revolution through to the present Michael Lee argues that there are sound theoretical grounds for establishing a science of the future and accurately predicting it time after time. Drawing on mathematics, social theory, physics, economics, social biology and philosophy and referencing great thinkers from the Marquis de Co. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (209 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-187) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781908474612 1908474610 |