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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...
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Infinite Ideas,
2012.
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| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Front Cover; Title Page; Title & Subtitle; Copyright; Table of Contents; 1. The Lens of Time; 2. Pioneering a Science of the Future; 3. Unlocking the Future of Society; 4. Inventing the Future; 5. The Year the Future Arrived; 6. Three Arrows of Time; 7. On the Frontier of the Future; 8. A Science of Time; 9. Grounds for Foreknowledge; 10. An Epistemology for Futurology; 11. The Key of History; 12. Seeing into the Far Future; 13. Is Politics Predictably Unpredictable?; 14. The Search for Our Future; 15. Future of the Future; 16. Invasion of the Future; Index. | |
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