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Foresight /

"The idea of foresight is as old as recorded societies, as controversial as climate change, as interesting as a murder mystery, and as useful as an umbrella. It is a siren tempting journalists to dash themselves on the rocks of prediction, a competitive sport in which winners may claim high fee...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sherman, Lawrence W. (Editor ), Feller, David Allan (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Colección:Darwin College lectures ; 26.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"The idea of foresight is as old as recorded societies, as controversial as climate change, as interesting as a murder mystery, and as useful as an umbrella. It is a siren tempting journalists to dash themselves on the rocks of prediction, a competitive sport in which winners may claim high fees for their success-or even failure. Yet the greatest value of foresight is to change our futures, not just to predict them. Foresight embraces more than disengaged claims about what will happen; it can also engage lines of action in which foresight itself causes what happens next-either to confirm its prediction or avoid it"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781316788264
1316788261